Åke Egevad
is a Swedish musician and instrument-builder. He is engaged by Musik i Syd, EMAP’s co-organiser in Sweden, to make around 200 replicas and type models of archaeological finds of sound instruments in Scandinavia. They will be used as hands-on instruments in the EMAP exhibition. He will also have workshops at the various EMAP exhibition venues. Åke Egevad, who lives near Kristianstad in Skåne, South Sweden, has collaborated with the Swedish music archaeologist Cajsa S. Lund for many years, both as musician and as reconstructor of archaeological finds of musical instruments and other sound tools, especially those made of bone, horn, wood, and leather. He is a pioneer in early Swedish bagpipes.

Ensemble Mare Balticum (EMB)
is based in Kristianstad in Skåne (South Sweden) and is administrated by the regional music institution Musik i Syd, which is EMAP’s co-organiser in Sweden. The core of Ensemble Mare Balticum consists of six professional musicians that encompasses various branches of early music, from the late Iron Age up to the 1700th century and primarily from the countries around the Baltic Sea. The EMB musicians are Ute Goedecke, vocal, flute instruments, baroque violin, harp Per Mattsson, rebec, fiddle, baroque violin, hurdy gurdy and other medieval stringed instruments Tommy Johansson, lute instruments, percussion instruments Dario Losciale, viola da gamba, violone Stefan Wikström, trumpet instruments, percussion instruments Fredrik Persson, reed instruments. Producer of EMB is Jesper Hamilton