2 Nov 2026
Festivals
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Stockholm Jazz Festival: Céline Dessberg’s mystical jazz spell

Last weekend, Fasching welcomed Céline Dessberg, a French-Mongolian singer and yatga player who blends the cultural influences of both countries into nostalgic soft jazz. Growing up between France and Mongolia, she draws on the Buddhist and pastoral traditions of her Mongolian heritage alongside influences such as jazz musician Chet Baker and the eclectic pop of […]

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Stockholm Jazz Festival: corto.alto’s jazz rave

Liam Shortall, known as corto.alto, is a Glasgow-based composer and multi-instrumentalist who is quickly but steadily rising to fame with his take on blending jazz with electronics, hip-hop, soul and funk. This year, he took the Stockholm stage with support of Terra Kin, an intimate folk guitar soloist. Jazz rave? Yes, sir, it’s possible. In […]

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Stockholm Jazz Festival: Danny Grissett Trio’s lagom jazz

Danny Grissett is an American jazz pianist and composer known for his lyrical touch and smooth delivery. This year, he came to Stockholm with his trio, featuring British bassist Orlando le Fleming and Italian drummer Francesco Ciniglio. They performed Danny Grissett’s own tunes with a focus on his 2025 Travelogue album, alongside his arrangements of […]

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Stockholm Jazz Festival: Bohren & der Club of Gore’s still dark jazz

Bohren & der Club of Gore is a German band featuring Morten Gass on guitar, keyboards and drums, Robin Rodenberg on bass and drums, and Christoph Clöser on saxophone, piano, keyboards and drums. Best known for their distinctive dark jazz, ambient textures and doom-laden soundscapes, the band builds its music around minimalism, stillness and space.  […]

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Stockholm Jazz Festival 2026: Rymden’s art of tension 

Rymden are a Scandinavian jazz trio: Norwegian pianist and keyboardist Bugge Wesseltoft, Swedish bassist Dan Berglund and drummer Magnus Öström. Since their 2019 debut Reflections and Odysseys, they have blended minimalism with melancholy and dramatic intensity. Their sound ranges from atmospheric piano to rhythm-driven improvisation. On their latest album, Valleys and Mountains (2023), they build […]

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Stockholm Jazz Festival 2026: Cochemea’s rhythmical witchcraft

For over 25 years, American saxophonist and composer Cochemea has worked across genres, drawing on his Yaqui heritage and Mexican roots to create music that connects ancestral traditions with contemporary sounds. His trilogy, All My Relations (2019), Vol. 2: Baca Sewa (2021) and Vol. 3: Ancestros Futuros, explores the relationship between past, present and future, […]

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Rosendal Garden Party 2026: Three Days of Music, Nature and Summer Magic in the Heart of Stockholm

There are festivals, and then there is Rosendal Garden Party — nestled among the lush greenery of Djurgården, with oak trees swaying in the summer breeze and Stockholm’s skyline never too far away, Rosendal Garden Party once again transformed one of the city’s most beautiful corners into a vibrant celebration of music, community, art and […]

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De La Soul providing the soundtrack to a great mood

Hip-hop has never been my genre of choice, but there was one exception back in the late 80s / early 90s: De La Soul. Their beats were warmer, the humour sharper, and the flow more playful than anything else I heard coming out of hip-hop. They sounded curious, inventive and most of all joyful. Seeing […]

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Sienna Spiro captivates with her voice and her presence

Rosendal Garden Party truly made a great booking bringing us one of Britain’s most exciting emerging artists, Sienna Spiro. She is on the cusp of her big breakthrough and she showed exactly why the music circles have been paying attention and singing her praises. The last festival day was already on its way to a […]

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Agnes commands the Rosendal stage like a veritable pop icon

On Rosendal Garden Party’s first day, Faithless may have been the ones ending the evening, but Agnes was the one pulling the biggest crowd. She took the stage with the confidence of an international superstar. Agnes has been on the Swedish pop scene since 2005, when she won the second season of Swedish Idol at […]

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