Clear skies, a lovely location with equally lovely weather, brought a calm multi-aged and multi racial crowd to a major Swedish event that is growing in popularity here in New York and in some cities in the U.S. Here the crowd begins to build this 22nd of June at the Swedish Mid-Summer Event in Battery Park City, Lower Manhattan in New York City.

Swedish Mid-Summer and Solstice Events coming to New York this week

Be sure not to miss the Summer Solstice and Swedish Mid-Summer Events around town this week. Read below or hit the '2007' and individual links listed and located on the left of this page for further details.....

Summer Solstice Fun With The Source Band

Summer Solstice 2007

Come celebrate with us!

Thursday June 21

7:00-11:00pm

La PLaza Cultural Garden

9th Street & Avenue C (south-west corner)

East Village, New York NY

Music by Source & Abdoulaye Diabate + special guests

Bring a candle to light the night

Summer edibles and magical potions welcomed

Musicians, feel free to bring your instruments

Bring friends, your dancing feet, laughter and sunshine!

Midaircondo in Williamsburgh, Brooklyn Monday

The Swedish electronic duo Midaircondo is coming to Brooklyn, New York on Monday, June 18th and performing in Williamsburgh. Coming off their recent performance at the Rochester International Jazz Festival this month, this group, largely unknown to New York audiences explores beat, sound, voice, and improvisation in an audio-visual environment, fusing highly visual performance with improvised live electro-acoustic music. Midaircondo was founded in Gothenburg, Sweden in December 2002 when the gifted musicians realized during a knitting session that that they had a similar urge to experiment with sound and widen their musical range. They developed their unique sound through improvised jam sessions using saxophone, flute, vocals, and of course laptops and samplers. By further incorporating a plethora of unusual instruments and abstract recorded sounds, their jam sessions developed into structured and coherent improvisations. Before long Midaircondo were on stage, and the live element became the core of the band—something unusual in modern electronic music. Sending a breath of fresh air into the genre, they harness incredible sound design skills while managing to inject what can sometimes appear cold and calculated with life and vibrant color. Influenced as much by a stray radio broadcast or a glittering pop melody as by the latest star-studded albums, Midaircondo is a self-contained musical constellation. Midaircondo is Lisa Nordström (flutes, voice, computer) and Lisen Rylander (saxophones, voice, computer). For more information, visit www.midaircondo.com or www.myspace.com/midaircondo.

I had a chance to meet and, see them perform at the Swedish Jazz Showcase program at Scandinavia House on Wednesday the 13th of June and, I believe this group is worth a look. Their Current CD, SHOPPING FOR IMAGES, is a nice surprise and shows their range in voice and song selection. For further information visit the web sites above and www.swedeninnewyork.com

Reggae in Mid-Town New York!!!!

The Legendary Reggae Band, Third World comes to New York on Thursday, June 21 at 8pm and perform at the Manhattan Center Grand Ballroom 311 West 34th Street in Mid-town New York For more info call: 1-718-421-6927

Chris Gudu coming to the USA soon?

Check out the sounds of this new and exciting artist here below....... Chris Gudu!!!!!!


www.chrisgudu.com

Andreas Pettersson on Guitar and other Nordics

Andreas Pettersson, seen here above, is one of many largely unknown, or little known, musicians from the four Nordic and Scandinavian countries. From the great and late Swedish pianist, Jan Johannsen and Norwegian pop vocalist, Radka Tonneff, to performers VERY MUCH alive now, these artists are creating some of the world's most innovative, new and exciting contemporary popular and Jazz music out there. There is MORE to that music scene than Abba.