Summartónar

KÓJAK is a traditional brass quintet whose members all live in the Faroe Islands. The group has been playing together for six years. The quintet plays for all kinds of events - from entertainment music to football matches to weddings, and the repertoire is therefore extremely wide. KÓJAK also has concerts with traditional brass quintet […]

These past years Guðrið Hansdóttir has released 5 studioalbums, toured and performed at musicfestivals. She's also the 2nd half of the elektro duo BYRTA and a member of the vocal group KATA. Guðrið is currently in the studio, recording her 6th soloalbum which is a collaboration with the lyricist, Lív Maria Róadóttir Jægert. The genre […]

THURSDAY 1 JULY TVØROYRI SALT 8 p.m. 50,-     Lív í Baianstovu Band: . Lív í Baianstovu (vocal, guitar, jaw harp), Ari Bjarkason (clarinet), Andrias Vilhelm Poulsen (bass), Høgni Klakkstein (drums)

Clarinettist Jože Kotar and pianist Luca Ferrini have been playing together for more than fifteen years. Their repertoire ranges from the Classical period to the contemporaries but they prefer to perform modern and contemporary music, written in "traditional" style, jazz and live electronics. They always try to mix different genres and by proposing new works. […]

Faroese Dance in calligraphy and colors presenting esthetic cooperation between Danish artist Anders Hjuler on painting acrylic and tusch calligraphy and Faroese musician Arnold Ludvig on bass and a diversity of magic electronics . Live paint between painters and musicians has many esthetic qualities both for eyes and ears. Artist Anders Hjuler will use special […]

Andrias Blaasvær and Helena Joensen started the precollege music school Musikkmiðnám in 2015 in Tórshavn on the Faroe Islands. They won first and second prize respectively in the competition Stella Polaris in 2017 and their duo, which was formed in 2018 has been playing all around Faroe Islands and in Denmark. They are at the […]

Spælimenninir have been playing since 1974. From 1977 they've also played a lot abroad, especially in Europe and in USA - before 2000, undoubtedly most of the bands have their homestead in the Faroes. The band with guest appearances from Ireland and Denmark. Lars Kristensen, Erling Olsen (violin), Sharon Weiss (recorder), Ívar Bærentsen (mandolin), Seán Whelan […]

The Gantriis-Zimmermann Guitar Duo takes you on a captivating journey in a diverse world of sound with an instrument that, while it has always captivated and inspired so many, is presented here in ways that few have heard. At Summartónar, the duo is very excited to be able to present, among others, Faroese music by […]

Søren Manscher is a Danish songwriter, based in Copenhagen. Søren spent the summer and autumn of 2019 in the Faroe Islands writing songs with local songwriters and composers including Teitur Lassen, Marius Ziska and Lea Kampmann – songs that range from straight- forward everyday songs about relationships, to landing a plane with Atlantic Airways to […]