30 May 2023
Gröna Lund
Concerts Music

In Pictures: Zara Larsson on Hometown Stage at Gröna Lund

Sweden’s premier popstar Zara Larsson took the Gröna Lund stage for her third time and wowed the hometown crowd. She put on a world class performance and served hit after hit in the warm summer evening. Gröna Lund was filled to the brim with fans who sang along to most every tune like it was […]

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Concerts Culture Music

Cornelia Jakobs shines at Gröna Lund

Fresh off of her resounding success at the Eurovision Song Contest, where she finished fourth, Cornelia Jakobs is now on a summer tour around Sweden. She made a jubilant stop at Gröna Lund in Stockholm. Cornelia played the smaller stage at Gröna Lund, as sort of the support act to Tove Styrke, who took the […]

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Music

In Pictures: Jennie Abrahamson @ Gröna Lund

Jennie Abrahamson ended her summer tour at Gröna Lund, and Your Living City’s resident pop nerd Nina Uddin was there with her camera. Jennie Abrahamson‘s latest album Reverseries  (her fifth) is full of well-crafted, subtle and ethereal pop, and the tour has taken Jennie around Europe before returning in style to meet the home crowd in Stockholm […]

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Culture Music

Maxida Märak brings intensity and conviction

The first time I saw Maxida Märak live, she awoke my curiosity singing a duet at a huge charity gala. The second time I saw her, she blew my mind. It was another charity event with plenty of big artists performing, at a very small church, sometime before Christmas 2015. Maxida was the host of […]

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Culture Music

Miriam Bryant on her new single and those huge crowds

Everybody loves Miriam – or at least that’s what it feels like right now. Everybody wants a piece of Miriam Bryant. The media can’t get enough of her and she’s everywhere now as she’s just released a long-awaited new single, fresh off the biggest shows of her career. And all the attention is well deserved. […]

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Culture Music What's on: Stockholm

Veronica Maggio brings her magic to Gröna Lund

Veronica Maggio kicked off Gröna Lund’s concert summer in impeccable style and attracted a massive audience to the amusement park. People had turned up at Gröna Lund in big numbers already in good time before the summer’s kick-off show. The most typical audience members may have been girls in their late teens, early twenties, but […]

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Culture Music What's on: Stockholm

Last of the Legends: Bunny Wailer Live at Gröna Lund

He taught Bob Marley how to sing, refused to tour the world and turned down fame and fortune to live in a shack. Famously reclusive, he’s not an easy man to see live. This was a chance to redeem myself and experience a piece of reggae history. He came decked out in white, splashed with […]

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Culture Music

Silver Fox Still Shaking It: Tom Jones live at Gröna Lund

We’ve all heard his cheesy slow dance songs and cringed at the ladies man crooning Hasselhoff style sans shirt. Yet when Tom Jones played Gröna Lund in June, curiosity got the better of me and I put my hand up to go. What ensued was THE most surprising 1.5 hours of vocal finesse that had […]

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Culture Music What's on: Stockholm

Timbuktu and Damn! In concert at Gröna Lund

He’s the MC that Swedish grandparents have heard of. He’s also the guy that told Jimmie Åkesson to shove it. When Sweden’s most influential political musician Timbuktu plays at Gröna Lund, you sell your first-born to see him, says YLC’s Ting Yiu. I knew he was a big deal when middle-aged lunch lady types were […]

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