Gallery Åkern & Smeltehytta is complete!
Kongsberg Jazz Festival takes place at various venues in the city, including at Gallery Åkern og Smeltehytta. These two scenes have a common denominator; both are part of the 'Særing' category – the most experimental part of the concert programme. If you have a penchant for free improvisation and the most experimental and wacky variations within jazz, these are the concerts for you.
Single tickets are sold for all the concerts, but we also have a limited number Særingpass. Særingpass gives you access to all the concerts at Galleri Åkern and Smeltehytta, in addition to some selected concerts at Energimølla.
Free age limit
If you want to bring children with you to a concert, it is only nice if the artist, venue and music are "child-friendly". If you are in doubt, please contact us. Children under the age of 12 are admitted free of charge to concerts with no age limit (not the Barnivalen), subject to availability.
If you want to take a child with you to a concert with a seat ticket, a separate ticket must be purchased (unless the child is sitting on your lap).
Hilde Marie Holsen
Trumpet magic!
We hear very well that Hilde Marie Holsen can play the trumpet as beautifully as she wants. Combined with electronic noise, her music is even more expressive.
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Kim Myhr: YOU | ME
Kim Myhr is seen on stages worldwide. He has been one of the leading voices on the experimental scene in Norway in recent years, both as a composer and guitarist.
With the critically acclaimed album You | Kim Myhr received an honorable mention during last year's Nordic Music Price. It is with pride and joy that we can now welcome you to a concert with this project in Smeltehytta!
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Ikue Mori
A unique opportunity to experience electronic music in pure perfection
The term living legend is used rather loosely in musical contexts, but in relation to Ikue Mori it is quite natural to bring it up.
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Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman Quartet
Contemporary improvised jazz by the most experimental married couple on the New York improv scene
Organic, live and pulsating music played by two outstanding musicians, who are referred to as two giants in new music. Sylvie Courvoisier and Mark Feldman have worked together as a duo since 1996.
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Særingfest 2019
Særingfest is the place for everyone with an ear for improvised music and free jazz
Særingfest was first organized in 2016, and is now a regular "festival" in the festival. At Smeltehytta this evening, the audience gets a full evening of improvisational music, good food and a good atmosphere. Two of the most important driving forces in improvisational music in Norway, Ståle Liavik Solberg og Paal Nilssen-Love, are also this time behind the programme.
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The front garden
This year's program consists of three concerts, and each one of them should excite even the most jaded festival-goer
Kongsberg Jazzfestival has for many years presented three concerts in one in Smeltehytta with the label The front garden. Avanthagen has become an important part of the Kongsberg Jazz Festival and helps to underline our focus on experimental music.
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Which concerts are included Særingpass at Energimølla?
Trondheim Jazz Orchestra + Atomic
Premiere of a new work by Atomic for the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra!
Atomic and the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra have an interesting shared history. In addition to the fact that they both reached their legal age in 2018, they are also defining for the Scandinavian jazz developed after the turn of the millennium. Atomic paved the way for a more American approach to Nordic jazz, at the same time that the influence of European art music has gained an increasingly greater place in the expression over the years.
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Joshua Abrams Natural Information Society with Helge Sten & Hamid Drake
From Chicago comes Joshua Abrams' Natural Information Society with a mix of long stretches, minimalist lines and hard-swinging rhythms.
Joshua Abrams' guimbri is the centerpiece of the music, which mixes inspiration from gnawa, free jazz and psychedelia. Since the band started in 2010, the line-up has varied from concerts to recordings, but in recent years it has centered around Abrams, Lisa Alvarado on harmonium and gong, along with bass clarinetist Jason Stein and drummer Mikel Avery.
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Bill Frisell Trio
Composer and guitarist Bill Frisell is recognized as one of the leading guitarists in jazz history since the late 1980s
Frisell has helped to influence the music around us for several decades and has collaborated with, among others, Paul Motian, Elvis Costello and John Zorn to name a few. He is known for his highly regarded recordings and had his latest release in the spring of 2018, 'Music IS'.
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EXOTHERM
Norwegian-American star team with sound boom to Kongsberg!
Exoterm is a new Norwegian-American supergroup that mixes thrashy, free improvisations with a dreamy, electronic soundscape. Nergaard and Alberts are well acquainted with power jazz from the areas bordering on rock, and have taken the energy with them and pushed it into a new form.
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