Jazz. Norway in a Nutshell 2. Jazz. Norway in a Nutshell 2. Bergen, Norway May 2. Bergen, the second largest city of Norway along the northwestern coast of the North Sea, is situated along an impressive mountainous bay. Protected against and open to the sea, to the world it is an illustrious place of a centuries- old merchant tradition, originating from the times of the Hanseatic League which connected important places along the Baltic and North Seas. Trade, fish, important natural resources, industry, education and culture: Bergen, the place of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg and star- violinist Ole Bull; Bergen, a major urban cultural centre in the north of Europe. Just a few indicative keywords for the place of the annual Jazz. Bergen is the second largest city in Norway and the most popular gateway. The city is the home of the Bergen International Festival, Nattjazz and. Check the program on the venue's website or in the local. The West Norway Jazz Center is a regional institution organized. The Bergen Jazz Forum and Nattjazz have been working in Bergen since the early 70’s and the establishment of the. Program for Norwegian National Day. Norway in a Nutshell event, which coincides with the city's Nattjazz festival. Nutshell and Nattjazz. Nutshell 2. 01. 4, connected to this year's 4. Bergen's Nattjazz (nightjazz) jazz festival, was organized by the West Norway Jazz Center in cooperation with The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the City of Bergen, the County of Hordaland, the Norwegian Jazz Forum and the Bergen International Festival. It offered opportunities to experience music by a selection of Norwegian musicians at various culturally marked places in and around the city of Bergen: a brand new house of literature; an old fish factory; an old rural furniture workshop; a regional art house; an illustrious old music room; and a restaurant room on top of the highest of the mountains that surrounds the city. The music and the musicians on location required access by boat, bus, funicular and some walking/climbing, thereby experiencing some of the impressive landscape around Bergen including the area of the Hard. Landscapes, big and impressive and nowadays totally wired with electrical lines are (inter)connected by roads, trains, lots of tunnels and bridges as well as high speed boats which allow comfortable crossing through and along places that create striking contrasts. And the snow and glaciers that can be seen on satellite pictures? They are real—a permanent accompaniment when traveling through Norway. When traveling, meeting and talking, food and meals were another accompaniment organized carefully by JNia. N's hosts: as much as possible, local food; local vegetables, grains, fish and meat, cheese and butter; lamb, whale, winter- codfish, barley and brunost/gjetost. Nattjazz was a ten- day event that took place at four venues at the old United Sardines Factory of Bergen, now a busy art production center. Jon Skjerdal's programming had a 5. Among the domestic musicians and groups there was also a firm representation of Bergen residents. Additionally, Nattjazz strove to program new configurations of musicians and groups/musicians who have not performed at the festival before. Most, but not all, of the musicians/groups who participated in Nutshell were also involved in this year's Nattjazz program. Presenting between six and eight overlapping concerts every night, complete coverage of the four days spent at the festival was impossible. There was, however, one remarkable concert at Nattjazz which will be addressed first, preceding a report of all the other events. That was the performance of Norwegian bassist. Velkommen til Nattjazz 2016 p. She won the Vital Award at the Nattjazz, Bergen 2009. As a student in the Jazz program at Grieg Academy she was the Norwegian representative at the International 12 Points festival in Stavanger in. Bergen offers a large variety of festivals all year round. Bergen International Festival, Bergenfest, Food festival and much more. Nutshell 2014, connected to this year's 42nd edition of Bergen's Nattjazz (nightjazz) jazz.
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