Nordic Spotlight
The best music and music festivals in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands
We’re on our way to SPOT Festival (!!!) and have been preparing by listening to the music of the excellent line-up to help make a difficult choice: who to see. This festival is HOT and we’re looking forward to sharing the hot with you…stay tuned!
Right now Gimle SOUND-TJEK music festival is shaking Roskilde, Denmark with an excellent lineup of fresh and tasty Nordic artists. It’s a tragedy we’re not there! Next year, should we all go?
Last weekend Copenhagen said goodbye to summer at the annual Trailerpark Festival, three days of fun, art and music. One of the most cozy (“hygge”) festivals I’ve experienced, Trailerpark Festival is the invention of Art Rebels, a Copenhagen-based creative community for artists, DJs, fashion designers, musicians, VJs, web designers, filmmakers and other creative souls. Their […]
The Danish word “hygge” can’t really be translated to other language. It’s the way Danes create a cozy, nice atmosphere, enjoy their free time, chill out, combine work and relax…that’s how I understand the idea of “hygge.” I don’t think I’ll ever be able to explain it or understand it properly, but I guess I […]
CLICK HERE FOR PART 1 This time our roving reporters were Mikkel and Morten (singer and drummer) from the Danish band, The Foreign Resort. While they were not performing at this year’s festival, we have a great feeling you’ll be seeing them up there in 2013…perhaps opening the Orange Stage? With over 77,000 guests, Roskilde […]
CLICK HERE FOR PART 2 “Roskilde…ROSKILDE!!!” Chants you heard from many of the star performers during one of Europe’s largest festivals. As a first time attendee this person got to experience the true “Orange Feeling” and the feeling was great! Web: http://roskilde-festival.dk/uk/ Background: Non-profit organization, started in 1971, 50 full-time employees. All profits from the […]
SPOT Festival in Aarhus = Danish and Scandinavian music at their best. Two days with amazing artists, great atmosphere and huge amount of concerts. DAY 1 The first day of Spot Festival started with Orange Extended show and it was better and better with each concert. At 16:40 one of the INTERSpot project shows started. […]
CLICK HERE FOR PART 1 This year, Denmark’s Spot Festival re-invented itself by moving indoors to the newly constructed Godbasen. While performances still took place in the Musikhuset and off-site venues such as Voxhall and Atlas, festival goers found themselves spending a lot of time indoors sheltered from the cool weather enjoying a plethora of […]
This year’s SPOT Festival brought on a bunch of new surprises. Here’s where you will find a bunch of intimate, acoustic recording of some of the best Spot had to offer. Stay tuned for our feature wrap-up next week showcasing the best SPOT had to offer this year. CLICK HERE FOR PART 2 Special thanks to […]
Main Website: http://en.spotfestival.dk/ Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spot_(music_festival) Where: Aarhus, Denmark When: May 4-5, 2012 Two-day pass: 495 DKK or roughly $88 USD Tickets: http://en.spotfestival.dk/tickets/tickets-for-spot-2012 Hosted in Denmark’s second-largest city of Aarhus, also popularly known as the “City of Smiles,” SPOT has been an integral part in promoting up-coming Scandinavian (primarily Danish) talent since 1994. The purpose of […]