Best Western Swing & Bjorn Tomren
An evening of epic entertainment and boundless gaming fun!
Prepare for a unique experience with vocal Americana classics, instrumental lactic acid songs, throat singing, yodeling and much more when Stjernekamp winner Bjørn Tomren and Best Western Swing meet at Kongsberg Jazz Festival!
Bjorn Tomren is one of the country's most versatile musicians with a musical range that ranges from Americana and religious folk tunes to jazz, ballads, yodeling, throat singing, dialect punk and psychedelic protest music.
Photo: Espen Sandengen
Best Western Swing musicians are united in their love of western swing, horse jazz, bææ-bop and other rural expressions of jazzified dance music from the American South (e.g. Bob Wills, Spade Cooley, Jimmy Bryant/Speedy West and Hank Garland). In a broader perspective, it can be called “instrumental electric Americana”.
BWS (who are by no means orthodox museum curators) is led by Asle Røe, originally from Molde, but with twelve years as a professional guitarist in Houston, Texas. The team includes 60% of Farmers Market: Stian Carstensen on steel guitar and accordion, Finn Guttormsen on bass and Jarle Vespestad on drums, as well as guitarist Staffan William-Olsson from The Real Thing and Michael Donovan from California. Total number of strings: 40
