Tag: festivals
Festival summer hot and challenging
Norway's summer music festival season was reaching its crescendo this week. From "OverOslo" in June to the country's largest festival "Øya," which opens this...
Oslo Pride broke financial records, too
Organizers of this year's Oslo Pride festival have already been able to revel in record-breaking participation and spectators when celebrations climaxed with the annual...
‘Norwegian Wood’ festival cancelled
Norway's traditional but troubled music festival "Norwegian Wood" has been cancelled this year, after an attempt to revive it stranded because of poor ticket...
‘A very good by:Larm’
The annual Nordic music festival and conference in Oslo known as by:Larm attracted rave reviews after it ended this weekend. One critic called it...
Norwegian music hits a high note
"Thank you for the music, Sweden. Now it's our turn." That was the headline in the national Norwegian magazine A-Magasinet nearly a year ago,...
By:Larm gathers Nordic talent
Musical talent from the Nordic countries was hitting stages in Oslo again as the annual by:Larm music conference and festival got underway on Thursday....
‘Norwegian Wood’ files for bankruptcy
It was once one of the most popular summer music festivals in Norway. Then "Norwegian Wood" became a shadow of its former self and...
Mela opens during big festival weekend
No less than five music festivals are being held in Oslo this weekend, with the Norwegian capital's most multi-cultural event of the year, the annual Mela...
Literature lauded in Lillehammer
Authors and artists from 24 countries were gathering in Lillehammer this week for the 23rd annual literature festival, the largest to be held in...
Bergen festival royally underway
Queen Sonja hailed Norway's west coast capital of Bergen as a city "with deep cultural roots back to the Hanseatic time" when she opened the...
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