Ten blue years
Tonight Oslo’s renowned club venue Blå (blue) starts the celebration of its ten-year anniversary.
Blå has beyond doubt been the most important venue for jazz and independent music in Norway during the years of its existence. Upon its opening it soon came to manifest a renewed excitement about Norwegian music, the genres in question and also about Oslo as a happening city.
The story started back in February of 1998, when the two founders, Kjell Einar Karlsen and Martin Revheim were strolling along Akerselva (the city’s river/brook). They found the old keep –for the locale was formerly used for the storage of diamonds and gold – and immediately saw what a great place it could become for music.
Although its stature has been fading a little over the past few years, Blå is still a club of special atmosphere and renown. And there is little doubt that it will re-emerge in its former glory, for the spirit of Blå lives, and so many people have been nurtured by it.
The anniversary musical program is as follows:
Thursday Feb. 28th
PERCEE P & GUILTY SIMPSON
Friday Feb. 29th
Club: SHARI VARI
Saturday March 1st
Club: JUICY
Sunday March 2nd
FRANK ZNORT QUARTET
Tuesday March 3rd.
LITTERATUR PÅ BLÅ
Wednesday March 4th
VERDENSPREMIERE: LAMA
Thursday March 5th
A MOUNTAIN OF ONE (UK)
Friday March 6th
FRED PÅ BLÅ (Peace at Blå)
KOOP (S)
Club: TOM TOM
Saturday March 7th
BUCK65 (CA)
Club: BANG BANG
Sunday march 8th
FRANK ZNORT QUARTET
Headlines:
Himmelkvad
Celebrated vocal ensemble Nordic Voices is currently out on its promo tour for their new outing ‘Himmelkvad’, a critically acclaimed album presenting Norwegian composer Lasse Thoresen’s unique vocal universe. MIC Norway takes a closer look at the cutting-edge vocal ensemble and ground-breaking composer.
I was the devil in my younger years
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