21st of January 2023 the festival Freyjufest will be held at the concert hall Harpa where 6 acts will perform.
‘’A new festival that is about to fire up a chilly Reykjavik this January with a top-notch line-up of international jazz names appearing.” – Jazzwise UK
The festival has had quite the attention from media abroad as in Salt Peanuts in Scandinavia, Citizen Jazz in French, Jazz in Europe website and Jazzwise in England were the headline was taken from.
These “top-notch” performers as Jazzwise quotes are from Iceland, Belgia, Swiss, Norway, Sweden and the United States. The music falls under the Jazz hat but the styles bend from avant garde over to jazz-electro Norwegian funk. The performers are leading in the global jazz scene or making their way like some of our young jazz women Anna Gréta ( recently got her music into a netflix series) and Ingibjörg Turchi and they will both lead their bands at the festival.
Other performers are the american pianist Myra Melford, Belgian bass player Annaeleen Boehme that will perform a solo act as well as playing in the octet of the swiss music composer Sara Chaksad. The sax player Angelika Niescier arrives from Germany and will also play in the octet as well as in the trio Broken Cycle along with Hilmar Jensson guitar player and Scott McLemore drum player. Nordic trumpet player Hildegunn Øiseth will play as well in the octet and will bring a few goat horns along.
More information about the performers can be found on freyjufest.is
Tickets can be bought on harpa.is/freyjufest
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