Yesterday I performed in a Cherity Organisation in Stockholm. I played the piano with children singing Christmas Carols.
The show ended with me singin ”O helga natt”.
Now there´s only this week left and then I will have Christmas holiday. On Thursday I´m playing classical piano for people dancing and on Friday I´m playing piano again in a church. Lots of Christmas Carols.
Then I will spend the Christmas with my family. I will try to get time to compose more songs to. I have just composed a new song but I´m really excited to come up with more material.

Tomorrow I have a performance at Waterfront Hotel in Stockholm. i will play the piano and this time I´m not going to sing at all. It´s more common for me with gigs where I sing and play but I love the variation. This performance is for people walking by that wants to have some mingle music. The Company that hired me has arranged some gigs for me. Last time I played at Kungsholmen for SJ (who governs the trains), then I both played and sang. It´s really difficult to choose songs since I have so many scores to choose from!! I have to big jazzbooks and a lot af papers with songs and scores! I will try to get a little variation but mostly I will play peaces that people can recognize. I practised some hours today and it will be fun tomorrow. Unfortunately this gig is not public, it´s only for invited. But there will be more gigs…. 🙂

Last week I was in Dublin in Ireland. The citizens are very friendly and helpful! People sang Irish folk music on the buses and even in the stores sometimes! I was there with my mum and we went to a lot of sights. We visitited a castle, a Viking museum, some churches, a jail (as visitors :-), pubs, Guiness (where the beer comes from), stores, a library, a university and others. We went to a pub were they had live music, a jam session. The musicians where trditional folk music people and they played violin, guitar, flute and sang. I brought my flute but I didn´t hvae it that day, otherwise I should have joined them. I stood on the street with my flute and played James Galaway one day. That was appreciated.

I had some performances theese weeks. Some jobs as a soloist and some with choirs and others. I also played the cross flute with a choir. My flute is good again. I was devistated when it was broken but now it works as if it was new!
Thank´s to my flute teatcher Stig Hedbom who reapir flutes.

I am composing a song for a Swedish artist. I can´t say who before I know what´s gonna happen with this cooperation. It´s really a different style from what I usually compose!
I spoke to this person and got a challenge!

About a week I´m gonna write here again and tell you about what I have been doing this week.
I´m going to a special place….

On Thursday I saw Kenneth Gärdestad (Teds brother). He wrote all Teds lyrics and won a lot of prices with his music. He was also one of the composers in the Eurovision Song Contest two years ago,
Now he works as an arcitect and write lyrics only when something makes him inspired.
He has a really beutiful house and we went down into the basement to his studio where Teds piano is. The studio had a really nice design with some guitars on the wall, a sofa, one of the worlds first digital piano and some computers. It was a great feeling playing on Teds piano though it was a quite hard piano, the keys were not very touch sensitive. I played some of my songs and Kenneth gave me some comments after each song. He like my up-tempo songs best. We choose three songs that I recorded for him to put lyrics on. His son recorded it with only a Microphone and the piano straight into the computer. A demo just for him to hear the tunes.
Then he said to me ”Now I have to have some wine-drinking evenings if there is to be any lyrics”. It will be exciting to see if there will come up something.
I have a cold right now. I am so happy I got it yesterday cause I performed all weekend. On Friday I played flute at a funeral and Saturday I sang and played the piano. Straight after the cold broke out. I´m glad it happened today cause I don´t have any performances right now.

Tonight I´m having a concert at Blidö Kyrka. I will play together with the pianist Bosse Ekborg. He will play on the grand piano and I will play the flute and sometimes sing and play the piano. I´m very nervous about my flute. A friend dropped it on the floor and after that some tunes didn´t work. After awhile I played again and the tunes worked. I went away to Cyprus and now when I came back my flute doesn´t work again! I will see what happens but now I´m going away to practise with Bosse and see what soultions we have…. I hope to see you tonight at 18.00 in Blidö Kyrka.

Join me tomorrow Wednesday 31/7 at my concert on Arbetargatan 21 (Fridhemsplan at 19.30. I will play the piano and sing toghether with the cellist Cecilia Linné. Ted Gärdestad, Abba, Bellman, Elton John and my own songs. I will also play the song I wrote with Kenneth Gärdestad (Ted gärdestads brother). No entrence! Your most Welcome! 🙂

Tomorrow, 10 July I perform in Fresta Kyrka in the evening at 19. I will play Gärdestad, Abba, my own material and other songs. Cecilia Linné will play the cello. Cecilia has been on tour with Ane Brun and Maia Hirasawa. I will also play Kenneth Gärdestads and my song, that we composed togheter. He did the lyrics and I the music. Kenneth is Ted Gärdestads brother. I hope I will see you at the concert tomorrow! 🙂

Tomorrow I´m performing at Blidö Kyrka with Svante Thuresson and Victoria Tolstoj. I´m gonna perform before them with my own material, piano and song. They sing jazzmusic so my music will be something different to warm up the audience.
I have just had the cellist Cecilia Linné here and we practiced for my next concert at Fresta kyrka. I will play Ted Gärdestad, own song and Abba. I´m kind of stressed out right now cause I had to arrange cello and practice all songs for both concerts in a few days. I will go to Denmark on Thursday to Monday so every song has to be finished before.

Now the song ”Måla mig i akvarell” is almost done. The text is written by Kenneth Gärdestad and the music by me. I called Janne Schaffer today and will send it to him to see if he think it needs some guitar….
I have to arrange some cello parts for the concerts this Summer. I will perform songs written by famous swedish composers and I think it will be nice with cello as a complement to my voice and piano. I might sing some of my own songs too. Arranging music is one of my favourite things to do…. 🙂