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0 16 BE RGE N INTE RNAT I ON AL FE STIVAL 2 016 FEST I VI T I ES The Kuraybers From Bar to Barricades with Silje Nergaard with Tora Augestad m Late Night Logen LO GEN T EATE R DAT E/ T I M E Tuesday 31 May at 22:00 D U RAT IO N 2:00 including interval T IC KET Standard: 290 Under 30: 150 Festival Card: 30 % discount BT Fordel: 25 % discount m Prepare for a lively evening at Logen when eight innovative musicians are given free reign. Late Night Logen The Kuraybers and Silje Nergaard share a passion for blending musical styles. The Kuraybers have a multilingual musical vocabulary and a unique, brilliant, fresh and witty expression. They have strong ties with Norwegian and Balkan folk music, and bring musical elements from countries such as Ireland, Poland and Spain. In this Late Night performance they are joined by Silje Nergaard, who also roams a landscape of various genres. The well-known and merited singer songwriter performs within jazz, folk pop, country and blues, but always with a recognizable expression that bears Nergaard’s unique signature. LO GE N T EAT ER DATE / TI ME Thursday 02 June at 22:00 DURAT I ON 1:50 including interval TICKE T Standard: 290 Under 30: 150 Festival Card: 30 % discount BT Fordel: 25 % discount The Kuraybers Almir Mešković accordion Grzegorz Miszczyszyn accordion Daniel Lazār violin Ramon Figueras Alsius trumpet Espen Wensaas guitar Bjornar Kaldefoss Tveite double bass Boris Iochev drums Silje Nergaard vocal 0 16 F E ST IV IT IE S B E RG E N IN T E RN AT ION A L F E ST IVA L 2 01 6 Tord Gustavsen Trio Spicy, raw and unadorned version of music from a time when Europa stood on the brink of an abyss. Norway’s uncrowned queen of cabaret Tora Augestad steals the audience back to Berlin during the interwar period. Cabaret as entertainment and art form played a significant and fabled role in those fertile and fatal years of European history. From Bar to Barricades follows the threads of Arnold Schönberg’s cabaret songs, Brettl-Lieder, with servings of the 20th century’s most cutting-edge vocal work Pierrot Lunaire, also by Schönberg. In his search for topicality and a satirical view of his time it was biting in its irony and demanded honesty in its performance. Joining Tora Augestad for this concert is the versatile pianist Trygve Brøske in addition to her own ensemble Music for a While. Music for a While Tora Augestad vocal Stian Carstensen accordion, pedal steel guitar Mathias Eick trumpet Martin Taxt tuba Pål Hausken drums, percussion 01 7 with Tander, Vespestad & Molvær m Late Night Logen LO G E N T E AT E R DAT E / T IME Friday 03 June at 22:00 DU RAT ION 1:20 Norwegian psalms meet jazz and Afghan poetry. Tord Gustavsen and Simin Tander perform familiar Norwegian psalms freely translated into the Afghan language Pashto, and Sufi poetry which is translated into English. Afghan-German Tander is one of the most captivating voices on the European jazz scene, and they are joined by Gustavsen’s regular drummer partner Jarle Vespestad and the ground-breaking trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær. T IC K E T Standard: 290 Under 30: 150 Festival Card: 30 % discount BT Fordel: 25 % discount Tord Gustavsen is acclaimed for his unique musical style and he creates creative and lyrical music that challenges the boundaries between modern and melodic jazz. Psalm melodies have shadowed Gustavsen from his childhood in churches and chapels, and, he says, serve as a powerful source of inspiration and new interpretations through life’s stages. In Simin’s versions the familiar melodies take on a mystical dimension through the sound created in the beautiful Pashto language. The interpretations also create political and theological controversy when the contents of psalm texts express a multi-faith universe when impulses from Sufism, Tantra and Christian mysticism are combined. Tord Gustavsen piano Simin Tander vocal Jarle Vespestad percussion Nils Petter Molvær trumpet Daniel Wold sound design Tor Ditlevsen light design Trygve Brøske piano, pump organ, melodica #FE STSPILLEN E16 W W W.F IB.N O 01 7