Music at the Library

Music at the Library - musical experiences that reach the entire region! Music at the Library is an annual concert series organized by Musikcentrum Väst. Each season, a carefully selected MCV artists perform concerts at various libraries around Västra Götaland. This year's season we are pleased to present 15 fantastic acts with a total of 35 musicians and artists, who will offer several memorable concerts at 11 different libraries. Music at the Library is implemented with the support of the Västra Götaland Region. You will find current artists for 2025-2026 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 2024/2025 Tour schedule 2023/2024 Tour schedule 2022/2023 Music in the library - that's how it works Written & said about the project
Helen Sällfors presents the piano concerto "Room for Romanticism - with colorful stories". The audience will enjoy a virtuoso concert with stories about how Frédéric Chopin, Clara and Robert Schumann inspired each other and showed the way for the Romantic era. Dramatic sounds and incomparable melodies are promised. Note: This solo act can only be booked if there is a grand piano or piano in the venue.		Louise Wanselius and the Theater Orchestra captures their audience with an infectious presence. They embed the audience in a beautiful weave of tones from ballads and folk music, mixed with thoughtful interludes and theatrical entertainment. Louise offers music from her own songbook but also surprises with interpretations of songs you recognize. Sparkling voice. Powerful strings. Thoughtful and enjoyable lyrics that are about so much more than the usual. This act can be booked both as a duo or trio.
Håkan Lewin Trio is a jazz saxophonist who has toured much of the world, from California in the west to Siberia in the east. With his trio, he presents a concert that in words and tone reflects on the segregated-unsafe society and world that surrounds us today, but at the same time be a moment of good music, joy and faith in the future. The music has its roots in the Afro-American musical treasure and with both feet deep in the "blues soil".		Maria Palmqvist is a singer and composer where all creation starts from the song and the heart. The text and music are conveyed with sincerity and urgency, where everything from sheer whispers to big power ballads can take place, always with the voice as the hub. The love of literature is a big part of the creation and in 2025 she is currently working on the album Unlove Me where, among other things, poems by William Blake and the novel The Road by Corman McCarthy are interpreted and act as sources of inspiration. Maria Palmqvist can be booked both as a trio and a quartet.
Helena Ek & Peter Janson makes interpretations of early music and folk music in the concert program “Ja tack!”. Here, the duo Helena Ek & Peter Janson chooses to let poetry and music from different eras collide, enrich each other – or merge into something new, obvious and exciting. Compositions by poets such as Lina Ekdahl, Bruno K Öijer, Kristina Lugn and Sonja Åkesson are mixed with jazz and folk music.		Björn Petersson Quartet has been described as song jazz in a psalm tone with stinging and raw lyrics that poke and scratch in just the right places. Or as Leif Carlsson wrote in the magazine Lira: "Bold to take this musical project to such a sharp point. The meeting between lyrics about despair and confusion and a consciously chosen embracing music. Simple and relentless, not easy to let go". This act can also be booked as a trio.
Maud Lindström has made herself known far beyond the stage for her straightforward language, disarming stage personality and urgent songs. Personal, funny, brutal and accurate, she portrays the fragility, dirtiness and grandeur of everyday life as it really is, so that it goes straight to the heart. In the fall of 2025, she will release the album "Du får gå" - her first in 20 years. Maud Lindström can be booked both as a duo act and a solo act.		The Christmas Holiday Band is like a warming blanket and a steaming cup of hot chocolate after a skate on the ice – that is how the music played by Johanna Lillvik & The Christmas Holiday Band is described! Timeless classics are mixed with famous Christmas songs in both Swedish and English. A pinch of soul, a splash of blues, a scoop of jazz and a handful of traditional Swedish Christmas songs together create a musical Christmas table where there is something for all tastes. The act can be booked both as a trio and a quartet.
Dina Grundberg Trio performs music that flows between heavy tango, jazz waltz and durable swing. In the lyrics, everyday life takes its place, throwing itself on the floor and screaming. Dina Grundberg is happy! And angry. Worried about her finances. Is she just human, or hideously oversensitive? Now she invites you to a concert in a trio setting where the audience can take part in her own musical landscape, between revue and jazz poetry.		Krilja Duo is a folk/world music group that plays Romani music from Eastern Europe. The setting consists of vocals, violin and guitar, where the emotional tone of the music is intimate, stripped-down and passionate with equal parts warmth and melancholy. In addition to the usual concert format, Krilja Duo has designed a "narrative concert" with a focus on the history, music and culture of the Roma. It is essentially structured like a regular concert but with monologues between the songs.
Burek Duo consists of two talented musicians with different backgrounds - Andreas Krambias from Cyprus who plays the oud, and Maria Doumeni Cronholm from Sweden/Greece, who plays the cello. Their unique combination of instruments creates a very special soundscape where the listener is presented with a rich musical palette signed by the Mediterranean.		GRAY presents the program "Snett ljus" where the audience, together with the duo GRÅ, gets to see what the light falls on – maybe it's on something beautiful, maybe on something ugly, maybe on something broken; or the light wedges itself into the gap in between. Newly written songs in an intimate, close and poetic format with vocals, piano and guitar.
Duo Emtell presents a varied concert program where classical music meets folk-inspired sounds. Bach and Beethoven coexist with the contemporary American composer Lowell Liebermann, whose sonata for flute and guitar impresses with captivating melodies and bold harmonies. The program also includes Argentine folk music and Indian tones by Ravi Shankar – an exciting and inspiring musical experience where tradition and innovation meet.		The Red Kantel is a fairy-tale musical performance (children's performance) about an instrument that came from the sea. Inspired by both myths and reality, Anna invites everyone to be enchanted by the sparkling tones of the kantel. We travel on water with song, music and storytelling into a fairyland. The kantel is Finland's national instrument and according to the tales in Kalevala, the first kantel was created from the bones of a fish. "The Red Kantel" is a solo act.
Anders Hagberg presents the concert "TRUST" – a musical story without words with singable melodies, embracing sounds and evocative rhythms from collaborations with dance, visual arts and poetry. During his musical career, Anders has distinguished himself as an innovative and virtuoso improviser on a variety of flutes, including the powerful double bass flute. With his unique and boundary-breaking music, he has created a solo performance where he weaves together live playing with samples and effects. By combining the freedom of improvisation of jazz with Nordic lyricism and influences from collaborations with oriental musicians, he shapes a personal and distinctive sound.