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2019 In Norwegian Music
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2019 in Norwegian music. Events January * 10 – The 18th All Ears festival started in Oslo (January 10 – 12). * 19 – The Oslo Operaball was arranged in Oslo (February 19 – 20). * 24 – The 38th annual Djangofestival started on Cosmopolite in Oslo, Norway (January 24–26). * 25 – The 32nd Nordlysfestivalen started in Tromsø (January 25 – February 3). * 29 – The Barokkfest started in Trondheim (January 29 – February 3). * 31 ** The 8th Bodø Jazz Open Vinterjazz started in Bodø, Norway (January 31 – February 2). ** The 21st Polarjazz Festival started in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (January 31 – February 3). February * 14 – The 14th Ice Music Festival starts in Geilo, Norway (February 14–16). * 20 – The Hemsingfestivalen starts in Aurdal (February 20 – 24). * 28 – The By:Larm Festival started in Oslo (February 28 – March 2). March * 6 – The Borealis Festival s ...
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Music Of Norway
Much has been learned about early music in Norway from physical artifacts found during archaeological digs. These include instruments such as the lur. Viking and medieval sagas also describe musical activity, as do the accounts of priests and pilgrims from all over Europe coming to visit St. Olav's shrine, St Olav's grave in Trondheim. In the later part of the 19th century, Norway experienced economic growth leading to greater industrialization and urbanization. More music was made in the cities, and opera performances and symphony concerts were considered to be of high standards. In this era both prominent composers (like Edvard Grieg and Johan Svendsen) and performers combined the European traditions with Norwegian tones. The import of music and musicians for dance and entertainment grew, and this continued in the 20th century, even more so when Phonograph record, gramophone records and radio became common. In the last half of the 20th century, Norway, like many other countri ...
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Aurdal
Aurdal is a village in Nord-Aurdal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located along the European route E16 highway about to the northwest of the village of Bagn (in Sør-Aurdal) and about to the southeast of the town of Fagernes and the village of Leira. The river Begna flows past Aurdal, just south of the village. Aurdal Church is located in the village. The village has a population (2021) of 658 and a population density Population density (in agriculture: Standing stock (other), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geog ... of . References Nord-Aurdal Villages in Innlandet {{Innlandet-geo-stub ...
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AnJazz
AnJazz or Hamar Jazz Festival is an annual jazz festival occurring at Hamar, Norway. History The festival has been arranged since 2005. The Hamar Theater is the festival's secretariat and represents the festival's point of contact and operational unit during the festival. The association has a close collaboration with the initiator Anja Katrine Tomter, who is the festival producer. References Eksterne lenker * {{Official website, www.anjazz.no 2005 in Norway Jazz festivals in Norway Music festivals established in 2005 ...
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Stavanger (city)
Stavanger, officially the Stavanger Municipality, is a city and municipality in Norway. It is the third largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the administrative center of Rogaland county. The municipality is the fourth most populous in Norway. Located on the Stavanger Peninsula in southwest Norway, Stavanger counts its official founding year as 1125, the year the Stavanger Cathedral was completed. Stavanger's core is to a large degree 18th- and 19th-century wooden houses that are protected and considered part of the city's cultural heritage. This has caused the town center and inner city to retain a small-town character with an unusually high ratio of detached houses, and has contributed significantly to spreading the city's population growth to outlying parts of Greater Stavanger. The city's population rapidly grew in the late 20th century due to its oil industry. Stavanger is known today as the Oil Capi ...
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MaiJazz
MaiJazz is the Stavanger International Jazz Festival in Stavanger, Norway. Since the first MaiJazz in 1989, the festival has presented both international and national musicians. About 200 volunteers organize 40 concerts on 20 venues in and around Stavanger for the 80 to 1800 people visiting MaiJazz. Musicians who have performed at the festival include Pat Metheny, Jan Garbarek, Gotan Project, Nils Petter Molvær, St. Germain, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Youssou N'dour, Joshua Redman, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Bobby McFerrin. In 2014, acts included Pat Metheny, Tierney Sutton, Lizz Wright, Ron Carter, Arild Andersen, Nik Bartsch, Tord Gustavsen, Phil McDermott's Crossing Borders, NOCZ, Pixel, In the Country with poet Frode Grytten, JøKleBa, The Thing, Mario Piacentini Sextet featuring Gianluigi Trovesi Gianluigi Trovesi (born 1944) is an Italian jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He has won various Italian jazz awards. He also teaches in Italy. Early lif ...
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Balestrand (village)
Balestrand (locally called ''Holmen'') is a village in Sogndal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the northern shore of the Sognefjorden, at the mouth of the small Esefjorden. It sits about west of the village area of Leikanger (village), Leikanger-Hermansverk and about northwest of the village of Vangsnes (on the southern shore of the Sognefjorden). The small village of Tjugum lies less than north of Balestrand, across the Esefjorden. The local Tjugum Church is located there, serving the people of the village of Balestrand. The village has a population (2019) of 824 and a population density of . The village was the administrative centre of the old Balestrand Municipality until 2020. It is also a major tourist stop since the 1800s with several hotels including the Kviknes Hotel. The Sognefjord Aquarium and The Norwegian Museum of Travel and Tourism are located in the village. There are ferry routes each summer from Balestrand to the Fj� ...
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Balejazz
Kviknes Hotel is a hotel, located by the Sognefjord in Sogndal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The hotel has 195 rooms in total which are divided between two buildings. The historic building was completed in 1913 and has 25 rooms, while the building from the 1960s contains 165 rooms. The hotel is a member of the Norwegian association of historic hotels and restaurants – De historiske. The historic building in Swiss chalet style was Norway's largest wooden building when it was completed. The building from the 1960s was built in concrete, and the architecture of the wing is characterized by the passage's typical late modernism. In 2008 the new conference and banquet department was finished. "Kviknesalen" has meeting capacity for up to 450 people. The hotel also has several function rooms and lounges, as well as two restaurants and a bar. Art and culture are central themes at the hotel, including a number of valuable paintings. The hotel also hosts the jazz festival Bal ...
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Inferno Metal Festival
Inferno Metal Festival is an annual extreme metal festival that takes place every year during Easter in Oslo, Norway. The festival was founded by Borknagar guitarist Jens F. Ryland in cooperation with Radar Booking in 2001 and takes place at Rockefeller Music Hall. Lineups 2023 The 2023 edition took place at Rockefeller Music Hall from 6 to 9 April. * Emperor * Amorphis * Watain * Cannibal Corpse * Abbath * Dark Funeral * Unleashed * Nile * Elder * Arcturus * Crowbar * Godflesh * Wolves in the Throne Room * Uada * Odium * Sakis Tolis * Harakiri for the Sky * Urgehal * Vemod * Djevel * Nekromantheon * Mork 2022 The 2022 edition replaced the 2020 edition, cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It took place at Rockefeller Music Hall from 14 to 17 April. The festival tried to keep the same lineup as for the 2020 cancelled edition. The announced lineup was: * Mayhem * Venom * Kreator * Triumph of Death * Gorgoroth * Marduk * Ihsahn * Kampfar * Asphyx * Böl ...
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Vossevangen
Vossevangen or Voss is the administrative centre of Voss municipality in Vestland county, Norway. Location The village lies on the northeastern shore of the lake Vangsvatnet in the central part of the municipality, about east of the city of Bergen. The villages of Borstrondi and Kvitheim are both small suburbs located just north of Vossevangen. The village has a population (2019) of 6,745 and a population density of . The European route E16 highway and the Bergensbanen railway line both run through the village. The railway line stops at Voss Station in the centre of the village. This is the main road and main railway line between the cities of Oslo and Bergen. The Norwegian National Road 13 also runs through the village. Etymology Vossevangen takes its name from the Old Norwegian word ''"vang"'' (Old Norse: ''Vangr'') which means "field" or "meadow", and refers to the large grass field lying between Voss Church and the lake Vangsvatnet. History According to legend, the peop ...
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Vossajazz
Vossajazz or Vossa Jazz (established 19 December 1973) is an international jazz festival in Voss, Norway, which takes place annually during the week before Easter, and which also includes concerts throughout the year. The festival has been led by Trude Storheim since August 2007. History The first festival in 1974 was held the same weekend as the World Cup in Alpine skiing at Voss. The idea was that ski and jazz fit together. Since 1986 the festival has always taken place during the palm weekend. From 2007, the festival director has been Trude Storheim. In 1980 Vossajazz brought Rune Gustafsson and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen together for a power session in the old Voss cinema. This cooperation led to the album ''Just The Way You Are'' (1980). Vossajazz includes jazz, folk and ethnic music. There is also ''Badnajazz'' for the children, ''Ekstremjazz'' (not part of Ekstremsportveko, the extreme sports week also held in Voss), ''Eldrejazz'' and ''UNGjaJAZZja!''. In addition ...
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Narvik (town)
or is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town and the administrative centre of Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The town is located along the Ofotfjorden in the Ofoten region. The town lies on a peninsula located between the Rombaken fjord and the Beisfjorden. The European route E06 highway runs through the Beisfjord Bridge and Hålogaland Bridge crossing the two small fjords surrounding the town. The town has a population (2023) of 14,051 which gives the town a population density of . Narvik Church is the main church for the town. Narvik is a commercial centre for the region. The Narvik campus of the University of Tromsø has approximately 1,200 students in the town. There are some high-tech businesses in Narvik (among them Natech). Etymology The town is named after the old ''Narvik'' farm ( or ) since the town was built there. The two possible Old Norse roots have differing meanings. If it comes from , then the meaning of the first element is the genitiv ...
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Narvik Winter Festival
Narvik Winter Festival, in Norwegian just (The Winter Festival Week), is an annual cultural festival with railway history platform in Narvik. It is based on stories, myths and facts from the construction time of the Narvik and Kiruna railway system around 1900. Important symbols for the Narvik Winter Festival are the rallars, railway worker rallaren, Svarta Bjorn (Black Bear) and the Ofotbanen The Ofoten Line () is a rail transport, railway line in Narvik Municipality, Norway. It runs from the Port of Narvik to Riksgränsen on the Norway–Sweden border, where the line continues as the Malmbanan, Ore Line via Kiruna and Gällivare to .... The Narvik Winter Festival is organized annually in March, the first time in 1956 as a «French festival». In 1957 the event was called ''Festival Narvik''. Today the festival, with around 200 events, attract a total of about 30,000 visitors. The Narvik Winter Festival has a special position in the local population, as a large part of t ...
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