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…. 🙂

I have been sick for a couple of weeks now. Everybody get´s a cold in the springtime, but now I´m well again.
I sang and played on a funeral this Friday and it was the first time in two weeks that I dared to take a ton, considering my cold. The performance was alright but in the end of the song my voice broke down and gave up. Out came three quite unpleasent tones. I think nobody noticed except the Cantor but for me it was a disaster…
I have been working a lot on Kenneth Gärdestads song. I wrote a melody to it and then I wrote another one since I wasn´t satisfied with it. Then I wrote some more melodies and today I wrote the final song, cause this one is a really nice melody I think. I´m gonna keep it (I hope Kenneth likes it too).
I have some performances this Summer and I think I will play this song then. It is in Swedish and it´s quite scary to sing in swedish when I´m used to english. The words feels so close and naked… But it´s a really good song he wrote…

Kenneth Gärdestad is a great song writer or maybe I should say lyricist. He wrote all of his brother Ted Gärdestads songs and also two of Teds melodies ”Jag vill ha en egen måne” and ”Hela världen runt”. I met him this Thursday to learn to know him better and then we´ll see if we will do something musical together. He is very nice. He works as an arcitect and musician, about 50-50 %. He told me ”I think that it´s important to have a life outside the music, otherwise I don´t experience enough to write about”. We talked for a couple of hours and I was quite taken by his life story.
Made me think a lot….
Yesterday I joined Svante Thuresson and Claes Crona on a concert. Svante is an artist who has been active for many years as a jazz, Sclager, and ballad singer. He had a concert on a jazzclub yesterday. I know his pianist Claes Crona, who is also an artist booker. Claes is one of the best swedish jazzpianists and he booked this concert in Täby on this jazzclub. Claes likes what i do and I like what he does, though we have different styles. He wanted me to come and see them and of course I would love to! It came quite much people. Svante sang jazz standards like ”Waltz for Debbie” and ”People who need people”. He has a fantastic voice and the audience seemed happy.
Then they gave me their flowers (Tulips) after the concert and we went home. It gave me inspiration to see how they work before, during and after the concert.

I took a day off today and focused on reading about how to practise….
Here are some pics from the concert.

It was awhile since I wrote here, it has been quite much lately.
All hard work with the music has given results! After performing in Malmö I went off to Blidö, (My mum´s summerhouse) to relax for a week.
Yesterday I performed at Berns. The sound was great and the grand piano was lovely! The soundcheck was quite fun cause the sound electrician didn´t find the on – button on the piano so I had to show him. It has never ever happened before. 🙂
He was really good and gave me the perfect sound. I talked to him and he told me he is touring with Robyn and that she has one technician for each instrument! That is really something!
I´m glad to be solo, makes things more easy. 🙂

I played from 22.30 til one with some breaks between. It was quite much people and everyone was from Statoil because it was a company event. Afterwards I got nice comments from the audience and then they let the party-people in outside the event and started the dancefloor.
I don´t really like the superficiality that is out there so I took off after talking to the really nice people on the event.
The lighting technician was a really kind person that performed with really nice artists. I like to talk to people that are down to earth and has a good taste in music. 🙂
It took really long time to get home yesterday. I was home around four so I am really tired today. Actually I should practice piano for 2,5 hours but I don´t have the strenght to do it today. I think it can be good for the developement to have small breakes sometimes.
I am so happy to have my music! Love it!

Performing at Berns 9/10

Performing at Berns 9/10