Grace Jones
Doors open 18:00 / Fay Wildhagen plays 19:30 / Grace Jones plays 21:30 The ticket is valid for both concerts.
Icon Grace Jones takes over the summer evening at Kvarten! Before this, Fay Wildhagen has lifted the mood with her sonorous guitars, great emotions and melodies that float away. What they both have in common is a unique presentation and coolness, where they both define their own expression in a sometimes tight mold for female musicians. Ticket applies to both Fay Wildhagen and Grace Jones.
Welcome to a fantastic evening filled with delicious contrasts in a perfect structure! Moonlight on the plateau and smoldering volcanoes, acoustic and electronic, down-to-earth and eccentric.
Grace Jones is a towering and transcendent figure in pop culture and has always been shrouded in a unique mystique, both musically, as a fashion icon and on the big screen. With a distinctive charisma and uncompromising, she has moved between different scenes and pop cultural expressions with a very unique integrity.
After studying theater in New York, she started her modeling career which brought her to Paris. Her androgynous, striking look was quickly picked up by designers such as Yves Saint Laurent and Thierry Mugler. Her ambitions, however, extended beyond the catwalk. In the late 1970s, she moved into music, signing with Island records in the midst of the company's golden age. First and foremost, she embraced the explosive growth of the disco scene, but the first albums tell of a versatile and all-consuming musical approach, with clear ramifications towards reggae, gospel, jazz, fusion and electronic music.
In the early 1980s, the artistic breakthrough came with the albums WARM LEATHERETTE (1980) and NIGHTCLUBBING (1981). Produced by the legendary reggae rhythm section Sly & Robbie, Jones now moved towards a fusion of reggae, new wave and electronic music, represented by major hits such as "Pull Up to the Bumper" and "I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)".
One of Grace Jones' trademarks is theatrical and innovative stage showsWhether she performs in a cage, dances with a hula hoop while singing, or dresses in surreal costumes, she transforms every concert into holistic art experiencesShe has enchanted Norwegian audiences with such performances several times, and now it is finally possible to see her, 77 years old, in free expression with the river Lågen as a backdrop.
Decades after her debut, Grace Jones remains relevant, uncompromising, charismatic and iconic. She steps onto any stage and into any context with the same authority as in Paris in the early 70s, or in New York's fierce Studio 54-era a few years later. Her work, across genres, disciplines and decades, amounts to one of the most extraordinary careers in pop culture. When she stands on stage at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival's new arena, Kvarten, the audience gets a rare opportunity to experience an artist who has time and again redefined what it means to be precisely iconic.
Photo: Andrea Klarin
Concert times:
18:00: Doors open
19:30 Fay Wildhagen
21:30 Grace Jones
Night buses 2025:
We have extra bus services both in the direction of Drammen/Oslo, Notodden and locally in the Kongsberg region. Read more about this here..
Practical information:
- The ticket will be valid for both Grace Jones and Fay Wildhagen.
- A discounted 2-day ticket for Kvarten is also available. This will also include Aloe Blacc and Sivert Høyem on Friday.
- Festival pass and Day pass on Saturday also give access to Kvarten.
- Remember that both festival passes, day passes and Kvartenpasses must be exchanged for wristbands at our sales booth in Flerbrukskrysset BEFORE you go to the concert.
- The age limit at Kvarten is 18 years. Valid ID must be presented.
- Guardianship form can be found here. HERE
- Accessibility: There will be a separate HC ramp on site, with a dedicated HC toilet right next to the ramp.
Questions about our new outdoor stage Kvarten? Here We have created an overview with practical information about the venue.
