Norwegian artist Marit Larsen will be touring Germany in November. She didn't post venue details, but here are the dates:
11/12 - Flensburg
11/13 - Kiel
11/14 - Hamburg
11/15 - Bremen
11/17 - Stuttgart
11/18 - Munich
11/19 - Mannheim
11/20 - Mainz
11/22 - Berlin
11/23 - Köln
11/24 - Leipzig
11/26 - Frankfurt
11/27 - Hannover
Swedish label Massproduktion will be celebrating their 30th anniversary on June 6 at the Sundsvall Stadshus. Details here: https://www.massproduktion.com/
The Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish embassies are teaming up for Nordic Jazz Week in mid-June in Washington DC. Here's the schedule:
06/14 - Embassy of Finland w/Karikko (FIN), Bjørn Solli Quartet (NOR)
06/16 - House of Sweden Rooftop w/Jonas Kullhammar Quartet (SWE), Karikko (FIN), Søren Kjærgaard Trio (DK)
06/17 - House of Sweden Rooftop w/The Sunna Gunnlaugs Quartet (ICE), Nils Petter Molvær & Arve Henriksen (NOR), Jonas Kullhammar Quartet (SWE)
Jonas Kullhammar will also perform at the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center on June 19.
Full US tourdates for Nitad:
05/29 - The Broken Neck, Austin, TX
05/30 - House Show, Denton, TX
05/31 - OKC INfoshop, Oklahoma city, OK
06/01 - Wolf's Den, Kansas City, MO
06/02 - The Nuthouse, St. Louis, MO
06/03 - Ronny's, Chicago, IL
06/04 - Now That's Class, Cleveland, OH
06/05 - The Last Stand, Buffalo, NY
06/06 - Siesta Nouveaux, Toronto, ONT
06/08 - tba, Rochester, NY
06/09 - Midway Cafe, Boston, MA
06/10 - Valentines, Albany, NY
06/11 - The Model Home, Philadelphia, PA
06/12 - America, New Brunswick, NJ
06/13 - The Charleston, NYC, NY
06/14 - The Nowhere House, Baltimore, MD
06/15 - tba, Allentown, PA
06/16 - Dust Warehouse, Charlottesville, VA
06/17 - The Corpse Fortress, Washington DC
06/18 - House show or Dive bar, Raleigh, NC
06/19 - No way fest, Richmond, VA
06/20 - No way fest, Richmond, VA
José González will be doing a few North American dates this summer:
06/25 - St Matthews Church, Hallifax (CAN)
06/26 - Toronto Jazz Festival, Toronto (CAN)
06/27 - Jazz Winnipeg Festival, Winnipeg (CAN)
06/28 - Vancouver Int. Jazz Festival, Vancouver (CAN)
06/29 - The Broadway Theatre, Saskatoon (CAN)
07/01 - Ann Arbor Summer Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
Series Two Records will be bringing the Danish acts Labrador and Cleeman out to Nebraska for the Nebraska Pop Festival in late August. Full details: https://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=31429084&blogId=490807796
Swedish troubadour Thomas Denver Jonsson will be heading back to the UK in October; full dates soon.
Signe Høirup Wille-Jørgensen (aka Jomi Massage) and Martin Ryum of Danish act Speaker Bite Me have started a new band project called We Can Love You which includes fellow Jomi Massage backing member Luke Sutherland. The trio will make their live debut on May 21 at Plex in Copenhagen.
The Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus-penned musical "Kristina från Duvemåla" will get an English translation and the new version will premiere at Carnegie Hall in NYC this coming September.
Swedish heavy postrockers Scraps of Tape are heading for a few dates in Northern Europe this week:
05/20 - Knaack, Berlin (GER)
05/21 - PMK, Innsbruck (AUS)
05/22 - Cairo, Würzburg (GER)
05/23 - Reilstrasse 78, Halle (GER)
05/24 - Kassablanca, Jena (GER)
Norwegian experimental/electronic/multimedia artist Are Mokkelbost (Single Unit, Killl, ARM) has relocated to NYC to work with the ICSP Program and will be working on various commissions and write music. He'll also be giving a talk on May 19 as part of ISCP's Salon Series and will have an exhibition of poster art at Scandinavia House starting on May 28 -- head to his site to learn more: https://www.b-o-r-g.org/
Division of Laura Lee will be heading out later this week to do some European dates:
05/20 - Knaack, Berlin (GER)
05/21 - 59:1, Munich (GER)
05/22 - ISC, Bern (GER)
05/23 - Biomill, Laufen (GER)
05/24 - Scene Bastille, Paris (FRA)
05/25 - Cousty Bar, Besançon (FRA)
05/26 - Rote Fabrik, Zurich (CH)
05/27 - B72, Vienna (AUS)
05/29 - Headcrash, Hamburg (GER)
The Bombettes are working on writing material for their debut full-length which they hope to record in June. They also plan on doing a short tour in Sweden, Denmark and Germany come July, so keep an eye out for that as well.
Swedish hard-rockers Graveyard are coming back to the US this summer to do a bunch of dates with CKY:
07/21 - The Clubhouse, Tempe, AZ
07/22 - Gators Bar and Grill, Farmington, NM
07/24 - Granada Theatre, Dallas, TX
07/25 - White Rabbit, San Antonio, TX
07/26 - The Meridian, Houston, TX
07/28 - The Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale, FL
07/29 - The Social, Orlando, FL
07/31 - The Loft at Center Stage, Atlanta, GA
08/01 - Pop's, Sauget, IL
08/02 - The Rave, Milwaukee, WI
08/03 - Station 4, Saint Paul, MN
08/05 - House of Blues, Chicago, IL
08/06 - Peabody's, Cleveland, OH
08/07 - St. Andrews Hall, Detroit, MI
08/08 - Mr. Smalls Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA
08/09 - Xtreme Wheels, Buffalo, NY
08/10 - Recher Theatre, Towson, MD
08/11 - The Norva, Norfolk, VA
08/13 - Blender Theatre at Gramercy, New York, NY
08/14 - Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA
08/15 - Theatre of Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Look for earlier West Coast headliner dates to be announced shortly as well.
Icelandic postrock act For A Minor Reflection are heading out on a big European tour at the end of the month:
05/23 - SPOT Festival, Aarhus (DK)
05/24 - Studio Syrland DK, Horsens (DK)
05/25 - Nordatlantens Brygge, Copenhagen (DK)
05/26 - Debaser Slussen, Stockholm (SWE)
05/30 - Studenterhuset, Aalborg (DK)
06/03 - Merleyn, Nijmegen (NL)
06/04 - Rotown, Rotterdam (NL)
06/05 - 013, Tilburg (NL)
06/06 - Ekko, Utrecht (NL)
06/07 - Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL)
06/09 - Glashaus der Arena, Berlin (GER)
06/10 - Studio 672, Cologne (GER)
06/11 - Yellowstage, Frankfurt (GER)
06/12 - Vereinsheim, Munich (GER)
06/13 - WILSONIC Festival, Bratislava (SLO)
06/14 - Hirsh, Nurnberg (GER)
06/15 - VK, Brussels, Belgium
06/17 - 229, London (UK)
06/18 - Start the Bus, Bristol (UK)
06/19 - Victoria, Birmingham (UK)