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Revealing the first artist of the 2018 festival program: Solveig Slettahjell

A better messenger than Solveig Slettahjell is not imaginable when it comes to communicating a message with depth. The internationally renowned artist has enthralled her audience for many years with profound performances.

It will be a special experience in the Filadelfia church, which has been transformed into an exciting concert hall with top light and sound production. The album ‘Poetic Speech’ contains newly written music and existential poems by some of Norway’s most famous poets, including Jon Fosse and Gunvor Hofmo

Join an audio landscape with a height and depth you’ve barely heard, with lyrics and musical expressions that make all genre classifications irrelevant!

The recently retired bishop, Per Arne Dahl, composer Øyvind Varkøy, and Solveig Slettahjell will talk about the background for the album before the concert.

Line-up:
Kjetil Bjerkestrand – keys
Helge Andreas Norbakken – percussion
Stian Westerhus – guitar
string quartet from KORK

Filadelfia church, Sunday Sep 23 at 19 hrs

Whole week

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Saturday 24th September

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