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Fragile, video-clip of the Stockholms Konserthus – Concert in December 2011
Directed by Schiaffino Musarra & Produced by Dan Sermand |
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Funk for Life returns Kibera
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Gold German Award for “The Moon, The stars & You”
Nils Landgren Quartet received a Gold German Award for his new opus: |
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Funk For Life© returns to Kibera
Two years after the launch of the Funk For Life project in September 2009, the team is going back to Kibera (Nairobi, Kenya) in November 2011. Created & initiated by Swedish Jazz artists Nils Landgren & Magnum Coltrane Price, and supported by National Geographic Photographer Mattias Klum & Peter Östlund film-maker, and former General Director of the Swedish section of Doctors Without Borders, Dan Sermand. The project aims to raise public awareness about the acute and basic needs in the urban slums and has been endlessly advocated over the past two years in various media and in front of public audiences all around the world. Striving for more than a year to return to Kibera, the team once more generously supported by Yamaha (instruments), AIR FRANCE KLM (transport) & Médecins Sans Frontières (logistics), will proceed with its second trip on the ground to perform a second musical instruments distribution to music schools in the slums of Kibera and musical workshops to sensitise and teach the kids about these music schools. This second trip will also aim to finalise a movie/documentary about the Funk For Life project, which started in 2009. The documentary focuses on the living conditions of the population of the slum of Kibera and the role that Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders plays in providing free access to health care in their clinics inside the slums. For more information please go to www.funkforlife.com |
Nils Landgren on tour
From September 13 to September 22 Nils Landgren is touring Sweden together with jazz singer Isa Sand and Bohuslän Big Band. Their show Motown Soul is strongly influenced by the sound that made the Detriot based record label Motown famous during the 1960’s and 1970’s.
Landgren, Sand and Bohuslän Big Band will play at a total of ten venues starting in Habo and finishing in Östersund.
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Nils Landgren’s new album: “The Moon, the stars & you” with a fantastic trio composed of Lars Danielsson, Michael Wollny & Steve Gadd will be released on the 26th August 2011. European tour in October 2011. |
Nils Landgren was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music on Wednesday 18th of May 2011. The Royal Swedish Academy of Music was established in 1771 by King Gustav III to promote “composition as well as execution”. – It is a great honour to be a part of the same academy as so many other great artists and composers, both Swedish and foreign, Nils Landgren explains. Together with Landgren, court singer Anna Larsson and violinist Tobias Ringborg were elected from Sweden. New foreign members of the academy are Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, conductor Gustavo Dudamel from Venezuela and conductor Valerij Gergiev from Russia. |
 Now you have the chance to vote for Nils Landgren Funk Unit as the best Live act in Germany!
The majority of the ECHO-Jazz Prize winners for 2011 have already been announced, Two categories are however still open for votes: “Live Act of the Year” and “The Label of the Year”. The virtual voting will be open to June 7, 2011. For those of you who cast a vote, there is a chance to win a prize! One winner will receive 2 x 2 tickets to the ECHO-Jazz Gala on June 17, 2011 in Gläsernen Manufaktur von Volkswagen in Dresden. |
Nils Landgren Will Speak at This Year’s TEDxAlmedalen. The independently organized TEDx event brings people together to share a TED-like experience, and this year’s edition of TEDxAlmedalen will focus on The Doers. The event is a joint effort by Greatness PR and Twingly. TedxAlmedalen will be held on the island of Gotland during the yearly political week.
For more information please visit www.tedxalmedalen.se
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A concert rasing money World Childhood Foundation is held Sunday May 8 in Storkyrkan in Stockholm. Both Her Majesty Queen Silvia and her Royal Higness Crown Princess Victoria will be attendeing the concert.
Participating artists are: Anne Sofie von Otter, Loa Falkman, Nils Landgren, Mikael Wiehe, Björn Johansson Lars Roos, Bengan Jansson, Andrej Power, Mathias Algotsson, Gustaf Sjökvists chamber choir, Storkyrkans choir, Stockholms domkyrkoförsamlings boys choir, Lilla Akademiens chamber orchestra dir: Mark Tatlow, members of Radiosymfonikerna
Condoctur: Gustaf Sjökvist et al.
For ticets please visit Ticnet
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New Album “Don’t fence me in – The music of Cole Porter” in collaboration with Colin Towns & the Bohuslän Big Band. Coming out in March 2011. ACT Music.
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Producing the new album of Joe Sample “Children of the sun”. Music composed by Joe Sample, arranged by Jorg Achim Keller featuring Steve Gadd and Nils Landgren.
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Producing Mo’ Blow (www.moblow.de), German Funk band from Berlin. Featuring Magnum Coltrane Price & Magnus Lindgren. Release April 2011. ACT Music
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