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APRIL
25 2002
MEMORIES
IN HARSTAD
Anneli
will be a central artist during The Festival of North Norway
in Harstad in June, as she will perform her new project
Memorium for the first time, which she has composed specially
for this event. Anneli will also perform Grace with Ketil
Bjørnstad and Jan Bang, and do a concert with Bel
Canto during the nine-day festival.
THOMAS
OLSEN
POSTER: This
years festival-poster by Roar Werner Eriksen.
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"Exodus, belonging, longing" is the theme for the
festival, and refer to the fact that most of the artists invited
have their roots in the northern parts of Norway. Artists
in the start of their career are heading out in the big world,
while others have already been there and is now coming back
home for new exiting meetings with their origin.
The Festival of North Norway takes place each June around
Midsummer, and was held for the first time back in 1965.
The event attracts several thousand visitors to the festival
town of Harstad, situated 300 kilometres north of the Arctic
Circle.
The festival programme usually comprises 100-130 different
events, including concerts, theatre, and dance performances,
art exhibitions, literary and film events, and a variety
of seminars.
Anneli Drecker is the festivals "focus composer".
And the program promises "she will be presented in
a wider perspective than the audience normally sees her".
Last year Nils Petter Molvær was the festival composer,
and before him Mari Boine and Kari Bremnes have been some
of the central artists on the festival.
Anneli / Bel Canto will perform at these dates and
places:
Sunday June 23:
Anneli Drecker at Harstad Kulturhus - Storsal, 7:30pm
Thursday
June 27:
Grace m/Anneli Drecker, Ketil Bjørnstad og
Jan Bang at Harstad Kulturhus - Lillesal, 6:00pm
Saturday
June 29:
Bel Canto at Nordic Hall, 9:30pm
See
the festivals homepage for more info and complete program.
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