"Virtuoso instrumentalist, songwriter and composer Mats Edén is one of the defining figures of the new Swedish folk music.

Edén offers dedication to some of the fiddlers who have preceded him, legends Lejsme Per Larsson, masters of the old school of playing like Torleiv Björgum, and also near-contemporaries like Anders Rosén. Rosén was one of the players who, in the 1970s, revived the tradition of making abundant use of resonating strings. Mats Edén took this concept one step further with the development of a fiddle with five sympathetic strings: he called this instrument the "bordunfiol", or the drone-fiddle.

Värmland's geographical proximity to Norway has encouraged Edén to look over the borders at related traditions.

Edén also studied in Norway, taking classes in composition with Lasse Thoresen and Olav Anton Thommessen, gaining the theoretical and practical knowledge that would enable him to establish his own slant on contemporary composition, while making use also of his knowledge of Scandinavian folk tradition."

He is now half time teaching folk music at the Academy of Music in Malmö and half time freelance musician.