Ulf Myrvold with Xoliswa Tom
Spellemann nominee Ulf Myrvold will raise the roof in the backyard at Christians Kjeller during this year's festival
Directly from Cape Town in South Africa comes the singer Xoliswa Tom who, together with fiddler nominee Ulf Myrvold, will raise the roof in the backyard of Christians Kjeller during this year's festival. The last time Ulf played at Christians Kjeller during the Kongsberg Jazz Festival, an audience record was set.
Xoliswa has toured Europe and the rest of the world for over 10 years with several bands and projects such as Under the African Skies, Amakhosi circus show and House of the holy Afro to name a few. She also plays an African queen singer on a daily basis in a show Rockwell dinner theater in Green point Cape Town, but is best known for her collaboration with the band Hot Water which includes has headlined Europe's largest African Music festival in Germany. Other projects she is involved in are Bambanani marimba band, Mbombela band, Imbo yakwantu and Woman in marimba.
Xoliswa has an amazing power and energy in everything she does, she captivates you within a few notes where she delivers real musical joy. We are really looking forward to this collaboration and to bringing the blues back to the continent where it once had its conception, says Ulf
Musical meeting
Ulf Myrvold is perhaps best known for his expeditions into nature - with his dark, commanding voice, he has captivated viewers of Ut i Naturen for a number of years.
Not many have been lucky enough to experience this showman on stage, oozing with the true essence of the blues, the historian and the innovator, where he conveys real heart and pain.
Ulf Myrvold debuted in 2018 with the album Old Memories, which was nominated for the Spellemannsprisen in the blues category.
“It's with unstoppable torque and great weight that these guys plow through rockfalls and undergrowth, and it just sounds so beyond tough. This is primal blues galvanized into rock and good old devilry of the good kind.” The Wilhelmsens
Ulf Myrvold Band is inspired by the recordings from the 30s with, among others, Robert Johnson, Son House and Blind Willie Johnson, dusty and soulful music - the very foundation of true blues. But also by modernists such as Jack White, Hendrix and Ry Cooder - and not least the Tuareg, such as Ali Farka Touré and Tinariwen, with their droney, yearning and bone-dry African blues. These, together with countless hours under the open sky, form the basis of Ulf Myrvold's own compositions.
"It feels as if Myrvold has carried the songs with him throughout his life. On every little excursion, through every thought and in every little step around where the man has wandered. They just pour out of him, through his guitar and his voice. And the eminent band standing behind him hangs on, and fully understands the structure the songs deserve. It is incredibly impressive.” The Wilhelmsens
The band he brings with him consists of Vegard Eggum, Julian Bugge Moe and Svein Olav Eriksen, musicians with a background in progressive rock and pop. And it was in the meeting between Myrvold's messy blues expression and the musicians' unwillingness to be tamed by the genre's "limitations" that the explosive magic arose. The result is innovative while preserving the essence of the original, earliest blues music we know.
Ulf Myrvold – guitar, vocals
Xoliswa Tom – vocals
Vegard Eggum – guitar
Julian Bugge Moe – bass
Svein Olav Eriksen – drums
The doors open at approx. 18.30.
Concert start at 19.30.
Age limit: 20 years
Accompanying person with an accompanying certificate: only needs to buy a seat ticket and only pays the ticket fee. Contact Ticketmaster for further information.
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