Concert 28.08.2021 13:00 in the city hall square
Georg Buljo participated in the festival in 2020 and was inspired to create a new work called Ljóðgata. Ljóðgata is an Old Norse name for the farm which is located where one of Europe's largest burial mounds is located, Raknehaugen. The place was a major center of power where four migration routes met. The work draws inspiration from the Norse Iron Age, Sami joik, via Norwegian folk music and African drum traditions. The idea is that Ljóðgata should reflect a musical and human diversity with contrasts and tensions and still succeed with interaction and communication, as a celebration of the meeting place along the road. The performers are a mix of local and national professional musicians.
Georg Buljo performs vocals with a focus on modern joik, plays guitar and percussion. For a number of years he has moved without prejudice and alternatively between traditional and world music, and is an experienced and merited musician with Spelleman Prizes and other awards behind him.
He is both a composer and a performing musician with a main focus on vocals / joik / guitars, but also works as a producer, runs a music studio and record company. The latest release under his own name was the album "Electric Bidus" (2019) and he has previously released "Neve" (2014) together with fiddle player Nils Økland and the solo album "Saxapahaw" (2011).
Buljo was "Profile of the Year" in 2015 during Festspillene in Northern Norway and "Sami Artist of the Year" in 2014. He has written several commissioned works, made film music and composed music for, among others, Mari Boine, Niko Valkeapää and Susanna Wallumrød.
He has performed his modern joik form for everything from the opening ceremony of the Chess World Cup in Chennai in 2013, with many hundreds of thousands of viewers, to discerning art critics and audiences in Manhattan, NYC. Buljo has a broad musical background from traditional Norwegian and Sami folk music, experimental rock, jazz and improv.
Musicians who will be on the commissioned work:
Sidiki Camara, vocals/percussion, is considered one of Mali's leading percussionists, now living in Oslo. He has toured the world with Mali's National Ballet as a solo percussionist, and with many stars from Mali's music world. After leaving Mali, he has collaborated with Bill Frissell and is a member of Frissel's group The Intercontinentals. Sidiki also teaches percussion and runs his own group Sidiki Camara Group.
Per Willy Aaserud plays the trumpet and keyboards and has made a living as a performing stage and studio musician since 1991. He is a very flexible performer with a distinctive expression and works mainly in the genres jazz, pop, rock, Afro-Cuban and various improvisational forms. Aaserud has collaborated with Buljo for over thirty years in a number of contexts. Niko Valkeapää, Gisle Børge Styve Trio, Inger Marie Gundersen and Jonas Fjeld are some of the artists Aaserud works with.
Christian Svensson is a drummer and has collaborated with Buljo in a number of projects in recent years. He is best known for his ten years behind the drums in the Swedish band Hedningarna and for folk music in the band Harv and at Västanå theater. Svensson is a very versatile musician who also has long and large theater productions behind him, including at the Norwegian Theater.
Petter Barg is a bassist with a degree from the Norwegian Academy of Music, and works as a performing musician and music teacher. As a freelance musician, Petter has played with several well-known artists. He now plays in Busi Ncube bands that are regulars at international festivals. Petter has for several years been a substitute in the Global Citizen Band, the backing band of Admiral P. He is also a bassist in Global Sound with Sidiki Camara, and in the Gaute Storsve Trio.
Ingrid Berg Mehus is a violinist with a degree from Barratt Due, but started playing the violin in Nannestad Spellemannslag. She works as a freelance musician across several genres and also sings. Among other things, she has participated in the Melodi Grand Prix and is one of the artists in the Christmas tour "Silent Night, Holy Night" with, among others, Maria Haukås Mittet and Alexander Rybak.
Choir:
Margrete Augdal
Nora Hovstein Røen
Morten Holt
Wind:
Tamine Li Gjerstad
Marte Dreierstad
Maren Sæther
FRIKAR are pioneers of vertical dance, and specializes in poetic duets. They have experimented with both static ropes and elastic bungee cords, and worked in urban spaces as well as in extreme places in nature. Wall dance is a particularly favorite artistic content for openings of new buildings.
Some examples of situations Frikar has danced in: