Tag: music
‘Biggest and best’ festival gets underway
Oslo's Øya summer music festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, serving cake to early arrivals when it opened Wednesday afternoon. Organizers reported...
Music festivals hang on to their identities
Another busy season of summer festivals in Norway will soon draw to a close. In the increasingly attractive region of Helgeland, known for its...
‘Correction’ hits Eurovision result
Norway has ended up in 6th place instead of 5th after the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) felt compelled to "correct the results" of last...
Eurovision ‘winners’ credit Sami joik
No other country's entry at the huge if hotly debated Eurovision Song Contest won as many votes from the public as Norway's trio known...
Norway advanced to Eurovision final
Norway's entry at the annual European song contest known as Eurovision gained enough points at the second semi-final Thursday night that it advanced to...
Missile attacks worry Eurovision
Heightened tensions between Israelis and Palestinians and retaliatory missile attacks are worrying the world again, also the organizers of the huge Eurovision Song Contest....
MGP winners deny they’re copycats
They're bound for the Eurovision Song Contest, while fending off charges that their winning number in Norway's Eurovison preliminary Melodi Grand Prix (MGP) sounded similar...
NRK reverses its Jackson music ban
Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) has backed down on its controversial decision to remove the late Michael Jackson's music from its play lists. NRK still plans...
‘Norwegian Wood’ cancelled again
The once-thriving outdoor Norwegian Wood music festival in Oslo has been cancelled again for 2019. The festival that was held in the Frogner Park...
‘Culture shapes a democracy’
Norway's government minister in charge of culture, Trine Skei Grande, said she felt like it was her birthday, Christmas and the 17th of May...
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