With a gripping voice, a rich sound universe and a sense for songwriting that connects deeply personal experiences with images of wild Nordic nature, the Finnish songwriter and singer, Mirja Klippel, is a remarkable talent on the alternative folk music scene.

Already her debut EP ‘Lift Your Lion’ brought the Denmark-based musician a Danish Music Award as Songwriter of the Year. Since then, she has toured extensively in Europe and the North Atlantic and released additional two albums. Her latest album, ‘Slow Coming Alive’, received three Danish Music Awards Roots nominations in 2021.

Supported by the critically acclaimed guitarist Alex Jønsson, she draws the audience into an ethereal and organic universe, where personal experiences open up psychological depths, and intimate spaces yield access to raw and wild inner landscapes.

Line up: Mirja Klippel: vocals, guitar & waldzither Alex Jønsson: guitar, backing vocals

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With a gripping voice, a rich sound universe and a sense for songwriting that connects deeply personal experiences with images of wild Nordic nature, the Finnish songwriter and singer, Mirja Klippel, is a remarkable talent on the alternative folk music scene.

Already her debut EP ‘Lift Your Lion’ brought the Denmark-based musician a Danish Music Award as Songwriter of the Year. Since then, she has toured extensively in Europe and the North Atlantic and released additional two albums. Her latest album, ‘Slow Coming Alive’, received three Danish Music Awards Roots nominations in 2021.

Supported by the critically acclaimed guitarist Alex Jønsson, she draws the audience into an ethereal and organic universe, where personal experiences open up psychological depths, and intimate spaces yield access to raw and wild inner landscapes.

Line up: Mirja Klippel: vocals, guitar & waldzither Alex Jønsson: guitar, backing vocals

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Clara Tesch – violin, viola, & backing vocals Elisabeth Dichmann – violin & backing vocals Maja Aarøe Freese – five-string cello & vocals – violin, viola, & backing vocals Elisabeth Dichmann – violin & backing vocals Maja Aarøe Freese – five-string cello & vocals

Gangar is a Norwegian band unlike most others. Their music has it’s roots in traditional Norwegian folk music, yet it’s wrapped in a completely surprising and unique rock outfit. Their energetic musical expression adds new dimensions to a traditional genre, creating something that sounds fresh and unlike anything else you’ve heard. With years of live- experience, Gangar on stage is nothing less than a fireball of energy and indisputable talent.

Oslo-based Gangar released their debut EP “Tre danser” in 2022, and in 2023 their full- length debut album is scheduled for release on Heilo Records. Inspired by bands such as Hoven Droven, Shining, AC/DC and Meshuggah, Gangar sets out to make Norwegian folk music more accessible to a broader audience, both locally and internationally. The bandmembers come from different musical backgrounds, including jazz, funk, pop, soul and metal. This all contribute do Gangar’s diverse and fascinating soundscape.

On stage, Gangar delivers a live package of high quality that will turn any venue into a big party! Their energetic shows often have the audience engage in both headbanging and folk dancing, creating a great atmosphere and taking the party to a new level. In a short period of time, Gangar has established themselves as one of the most exciting bands in its genre. This has landed them gigs at prestigious festivals around the world, including concerts in Estonia, Sweden and the Netherlands, as well as the Folk Alliance International in Kansas City, USA.

Gangar members:

Mattias Thedens – Fiddle/Hardanger fiddle. Oskar Lindberget – Sax. Richard Max – Guitar. Jonas Thrana Jensen – Bass. Henrik Dullum – Drums.

Formed following a live jam session in Copenhagen more than ten years ago, this talented trio’s sound is based on virtuosic and incendiary musical ability across a range of instruments that includes fiddle, accordion, piano and cittern.

Endlessly exploring new challenges, for themselves and for audiences, Dreamers’ Circus mine their solid backgrounds in traditional and roots music to present a genre-bending amalgam of folk sensitivity, jazz improvisation and classical complexity distilled through an openness to popular music influences. The outcome is a music that is resolutely contemporary and rhythmically and melodically engrossing.

Piano and accordion player, Nikolaj Busk, has a background in folk music but his performance and arranging skills have seen him in great demand in the pop music and jazz world also. Violinist, Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen, while reared in a folk-music loving family emerged as a prodigiously talented classical player and by his early twenties was leader of the Copenhagen Philharmonic orchestra. The Swedish born, Ale Carr, is also from a folk music family and his rhythmic cittern playing underpins the bands overall sound.

Since their inception they have established themselves as among one of Denmark’s leading musical ensembles as evidenced by their recent recognition from the Danish Arts Foundation as a “Special Ensemble.” A busy touring schedule in Europe, the USA and Japan has seen Dreamers’ Circus emerge as international musical ambassadors for Nordic and Danish music.