Slottsfjell artists
We are, as everybody else with a little sensibility, super excited about the festival summer. I can’t wait to get dirty feet on festival ground, buy the funkyest hat I can find, hang out with my old friends, make some new friends and sing on the top of my voice! I am also pleased to see that some of the bands that contributed to this blog is playing at the Slottsfjell festival in Tønsberg, Norway, one of the festivals I’m definitely going to :D
If you work with music and want to contribute to this blog: send an e-mail to marie@ufa.no and tell me about your favourite place and who you are (about your career) and a picture of the place.
Åmli, Larvik, Norway
Jonas Alaska makes music inspired by the old singer/songwriter tradition with strong elements of folk and americana. His backing band consists of a clean and tight rhythm section, CSN and gospel influenced backing-vocals as well as honkey keys and guitars.
His album is expected in June, 2011.
My favourite place is my hometown, Åmli.
Åmli is a small village deep inside the woods somewhere in the south of Norway. I haven’t lived in my hometown since I was 16. I currently live in England but I tend to write a lot when I’m home visiting my family. I’ve got a guitar and a borrowed el-piano standing by the window so when I write songs I’m staring straight into the woods.
There is only one street in Åmli. I know that street inside out as I used to skateboard when I lived there. There are also three hairdressers on that small street in the middle of the woods!
I really like living in the city though, and I hope I get to move to New York soon, but my dream is to build myself a cabin somewhere in my hometown with a studio in it. That way I can still live in the city, and write new songs the way I like it.
I sometimes like to think of my hometown as upstate New York, in the Woodstock area, where Dylan, Young, The Band and a bunch of other artists bought a house, made good coffee and recorded some awesome music.
