Dreamers' Circus is an award-winning trio of remarkable, classically-trained Scandinavian musicians whose original Nordic folk music is infused with jazz, pop and classical sensibilities. The trio, based in Copenhagen, are hugely popular and critically acclaimed in Denmark. They have taken home five Danish Music Awards and were named 2023 Artist of the Year by the Danish national classical radio channel P2 (the first non-classical group to earn that honor). Their official line-up is fiddle, cittern and piano/accordion, but collectively, they also play ukulele, guitar, keyboard/ synthesizer, kannel (a Northern-European box zither), and clog fiddle (a Swedish instrument made from a wooden clog), among others.
The trio says, "We think of Dreamers' Circus as a group of friendly musical disruptors! The various strands and traditions that form the roots of the remarkable variety of American music inspire us, and we love coming across the Atlantic to celebrate those traditions and introduce (or re-introduce) some of our own tunes from the Nordic countries. We've got some new music and some very old music to share with you. Looking forward!"
Swedish multi-instrumentalist Ale Carr (cittern) is recognized as one of the leading players of plucked string instruments in Nordic folk music today. He has won five Danish Music Awards and appeared this summer at the BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall with The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Nikolaj Busk (piano/accordion) is a composer and pianist who grew up on traditional Danish songs as well as Louis Armstrong and the Beatles before being "adopted," as he puts it, by folk music. Violinist Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen is probably best known to US audiences as violinist in the Danish String Quartet, which just released PRISM V on ECM records.
"Dreamers' Circus does for Nordic folk music what Astor Piazolla and the tango nuevo did for Argentinian folk music."
Politiken (Denmark)
$60 reserved seating, $45 general admission, $15 student.
Presented by Noe Music
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The trio says, "We think of Dreamers' Circus as a group of friendly musical disruptors! The various strands and traditions that form the roots of the remarkable variety of American music inspire us, and we love coming across the Atlantic to celebrate those traditions and introduce (or re-introduce) some of our own tunes from the Nordic countries. We've got some new music and some very old music to share with you. Looking forward!"
Swedish multi-instrumentalist Ale Carr (cittern) is recognized as one of the leading players of plucked string instruments in Nordic folk music today. He has won five Danish Music Awards and appeared this summer at the BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall with The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Nikolaj Busk (piano/accordion) is a composer and pianist who grew up on traditional Danish songs as well as Louis Armstrong and the Beatles before being "adopted," as he puts it, by folk music. Violinist Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen is probably best known to US audiences as violinist in the Danish String Quartet, which just released PRISM V on ECM records.
"Dreamers' Circus does for Nordic folk music what Astor Piazolla and the tango nuevo did for Argentinian folk music."
Politiken (Denmark)
$60 reserved seating, $45 general admission, $15 student.
Presented by Noe Music
Dreamers' Circus is an award-winning trio of remarkable, classically-trained Scandinavian musicians whose original Nordic folk music is infused with jazz, pop and classical sensibilities. The trio, based in Copenhagen, are hugely popular and critically acclaimed in Denmark. They have taken home five Danish Music Awards and were named 2023 Artist of the Year by the Danish national classical radio channel P2 (the first non-classical group to earn that honor). Their official line-up is fiddle, cittern and piano/accordion, but collectively, they also play ukulele, guitar, keyboard/ synthesizer, kannel (a Northern-European box zither), and clog fiddle (a Swedish instrument made from a wooden clog), among others.
The trio says, "We think of Dreamers' Circus as a group of friendly musical disruptors! The various strands and traditions that form the roots of the remarkable variety of American music inspire us, and we love coming across the Atlantic to celebrate those traditions and introduce (or re-introduce) some of our own tunes from the Nordic countries. We've got some new music and some very old music to share with you. Looking forward!"
Swedish multi-instrumentalist Ale Carr (cittern) is recognized as one of the leading players of plucked string instruments in Nordic folk music today. He has won five Danish Music Awards and appeared this summer at the BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall with The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Nikolaj Busk (piano/accordion) is a composer and pianist who grew up on traditional Danish songs as well as Louis Armstrong and the Beatles before being "adopted," as he puts it, by folk music. Violinist Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen is probably best known to US audiences as violinist in the Danish String Quartet, which just released PRISM V on ECM records.
"Dreamers' Circus does for Nordic folk music what Astor Piazolla and the tango nuevo did for Argentinian folk music."
Politiken (Denmark)
$60 reserved seating, $45 general admission, $15 student.
Presented by Noe Music
read more
The trio says, "We think of Dreamers' Circus as a group of friendly musical disruptors! The various strands and traditions that form the roots of the remarkable variety of American music inspire us, and we love coming across the Atlantic to celebrate those traditions and introduce (or re-introduce) some of our own tunes from the Nordic countries. We've got some new music and some very old music to share with you. Looking forward!"
Swedish multi-instrumentalist Ale Carr (cittern) is recognized as one of the leading players of plucked string instruments in Nordic folk music today. He has won five Danish Music Awards and appeared this summer at the BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall with The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Nikolaj Busk (piano/accordion) is a composer and pianist who grew up on traditional Danish songs as well as Louis Armstrong and the Beatles before being "adopted," as he puts it, by folk music. Violinist Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen is probably best known to US audiences as violinist in the Danish String Quartet, which just released PRISM V on ECM records.
"Dreamers' Circus does for Nordic folk music what Astor Piazolla and the tango nuevo did for Argentinian folk music."
Politiken (Denmark)
$60 reserved seating, $45 general admission, $15 student.
Presented by Noe Music
show less
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