Music at the Library

Music at the Library - musical experiences that reach the entire region! Musik på Biblioteket is an annual concert series organized by Musikcentrum Väst. Each season, a careful selection of MCV's artists perform concerts in various libraries around Västra Götaland. In this year's season, we have the pleasure of presenting 13 fantastic acts with a total of 27 musicians and artists, who will offer 31 memorable concerts in 14 different libraries. Music at the Library is carried out with the support of the Västra Götaland region. You will find current artists for 2024-2025 below. If you have any questions or want to make a booking, contact the project manager Terese Lien Evenstad by emailing terese@mcv.se or calling 031-144808. Tour schedule 2024/2025 Tour schedule 2023/2024 Tour schedule 2022/2023 Music in the library - that's how it works Written & said about the project
AME is musician, composer and stage artist Anna Maria Engberg's cross-artistic solo project. Live, she forms a heartfelt "onewoman band" with 5-string electric violin, vocoder and drum machine. AME gives us both spherical improvisations and melodious pop with both poetic and universal lyrics. In addition to her own songs, she also performs interpretations by, among others, Dan Andersson, Nina Simone and David Bowie.		Amanda Arnborg & Erik Björksten music composed by Moa & Harry Martinson. With warmth, nerve and humor, the singer Amanda Arnborg and the guitarist Erik Björksten offer their own settings of the lyrics of Sweden's most famous and well-read author couple. A Nobel laureate and a popular bestseller intertwined by literature and passion. Arnborg and Björksten gently lift the words in an intimate musical format that invites laughter, tears and reflection."
Dag Westling offers a musical journey to the Green Island with the program Folksongs from Ireland and Scotland. On guitar, five-string banjo, tin whistle and with vocals, he performs emigrant songs, ballads, dance songs and ballads about love and other adventures with a few sprinklings of American old time. Dag's genuine feeling for Irish music finds versatile expression in his instrumental virtuosity and emotional vocals.		Dear Someone consists of the duo Emelie Junsten and guitarist Fredrik Lydén, who offer original songs and the occasional selected cover with an acoustic setting. Dear Someone is in the borderland between country and Americana, but is characterized by clear pop influences. The music revolves around and begins with the lyrics, which explore the longing for a meaningful life and to find one's home.
Jorge Alcaide Trio characterized by the subtleties and importance of Latin American music. At the same time, Jorge's interest in different musical traditions and experiences has made him a hybrid music creator. The Jorge Alcaide Trio collects tidbits from this musical journey where love and freedom are recurring themes. Together they offer a thoughtful and captivating concert with Jorge's own compositions as well as the occasional traditional song from the South American continent.		Martina Almgren This Song Of Mine embarks on an adventure, where she invites the oud player Ahmad al Khatib, the singer Karin Burman and Owe Almgren, acoustic bass guitar to play together. Poetry by the Indian-Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore is in focus, with thoughts on life that touch on our existence, longing and community.
Matilda and Olympia is a duo that is currently featured in the program "Känner du Riedel?". With Swedish texts and melodies that move between wise and jazz, music that Georg Riedel was touched by in one way or another is presented – as a composer, arranger or as a fellow musician. The repertoire ranges from Georg Riedel's classics to more modern poetic jazz works as well as arrangements of texts by other famous composers and poets such as Cornelis Vreesvijk and Thomas Tranströmer.		Freddy Clue After ten years of experience in stage performances, Fredy Clue debuts with his performance "What are you hiding?" which is aimed at all ages, but mainly 6-12 years. This concert performance is a journey through the inner obstacles that limit us from exploring more and greater possibilities. "What are you hiding?" contains stories about the queer and the traditional and about how traditions can develop and live on so that they suit more people.
Forslund - Lindholm With outstanding interplay, joy of playing and rhythmic drive, these two outstanding musicians offer an unforgettable concert experience with a unique combination of instruments. Their repertoire includes traditional Brazilian melodies, improvisations and own compositions, where influences from African, Oriental and Nordic musical traditions merge in a fascinating way.		Nowak/Hendrix duo This Polish-Belgian duo met during their studies at the University of Stage and Music in Gothenburg and have spent the last few years building a sound that celebrates the combination of major and clarinet. Through their responsiveness and inspiration, they take you on a nostalgic and beautiful journey filled with, among other things, musette waltzes, mazurkas and tango.
SAJOURI In the musical performance Aina - the adventure of a sailor, our young audience can join us in a world full of exciting, dangerous, improbable and funny situations. We get to go with Aina to Europe, to Colombo in Sri Lanka, to India and Tibet where she ended up in prison and managed to escape. On her way to Greenland, she was met by gigantic icebergs. It was there, on the Arctic Ocean, that the engine broke down...		Shtoltse Suffers Singing in Yiddish, reading poetry in Swedish and engaged storytelling will be the concert Shtoltse lider (Proud Poems), with Ida Gillner on piano and vocals, and Livet Nord on violin - in heartfelt, playful and dynamic interaction with each other.
The Gothenburg Combo How does Korparna by Tomas Bannerhed sound in tones. Or Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien? How does the classic adventure novel A World Voyage under the Sea sound? And how do Karin Boye's, Edith Södergran's and Selma Lagerlöf's texts sound when translated into the language of music? The answers are given in the program "The Loud Library" with The Gothenburg Combo!		Trio Cry Through a burning desire to tell about the little person and everything that feels so big, Trio Rop takes its roots in folk storytelling and folk vocal tradition. A tradition where in the past people passed on stories with song to remember and share the course of events with others. In that spirit, Trio Rop searches for the universal formulations in their writing in order to make visible stories that are missing in the folk tradition.
GODÉE & BERGSTRÖM DUO The music they play is usually songs composed by Mikael, but sometimes a well-known melody, verse or a classical piece pops up to their and the audience's surprise. Both of these established musicians are part of the jazz groups Corpo and MEQ with jazz clubs and festivals around Europe as venues. The goal of this duo is the small format. The small library in the small town receives a musical visit from Mikael Godée on soprano sax and Magnus Bergström on double bass.