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Pan-Arcticvision
Pan-ArcticVision is an international social and cultural event that describes itself as "a Eurovision for the Arctic". Pan-ArcticVision has live musical contributions from the circumpolar North (the Arctic), and arranges televotes among the public. The event is broadcast internationally, and is loosely modeled on the Eurovision Song Contest. Different from Eurovision, the Pan-ArcticVision questions the concept of a musical competition, and asks the public to decide whether or not there should be a more than one winner. Furthermore, this is not a competition between creators (unlike Eurovision); it is a competition between communities and artists who both create and perform their own works. The Pan-ArcticVision has participants not from nation states, but from different northern and Arctic territories, displaying local Arctic flags. The two first editions have included participants from Alaska, Yukon, The Yukon, Nunavut, Greenland, Kalaallit Nunaat, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Sápmi, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guðrið Hansdóttir
Guðrið Hansdóttir (born 6 October 1980) is a Faroese singer, songwriter, composer, and musician. She has released six full studio albums and has released an EP called "Taking Ship" on 24 January 2014 in the United States, in February in Europe. ''Taking Ship'' has seven songs which are poems by Heinrich Heine in English translation, except for one of Heine's poems which is in Faroese translation by Poul F. Joensen, ''Tú hevur tær dýrastu perlur''. On the 22nd of April 2022 she released the album ''Gult myrkur'' which is a collaboration with Faroese poet Lív Maria Róadóttir Jæger. Biography Guðrið Hansdóttir grew up in Argir near Tórshavn, and is the daughter of Louisa and Hans Carl Hansen. Her father is a well-known guitar player in the Faroe Islands, having earlier played with the Faroese bands ''Straight Ahead'' and ''Streingjasúpan''. Guðrið's last name was Hansen, which is a Danish form commonly used in the Faroe Islands, but later she changed it to the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
