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Christmas at Boltel\u00f8kka<\/p>\n
Boltel\u00f8kka Girls Choir, from Boltel\u00f8kka school at Bislett in Oslo, is celebrating their 10th anniversary with the album "Jolevisur". The choirs conductor Linn Andrea Fuglseth, from Trio Mediaeval fame, originally founded the choir and is still the choir\u00b4s conductor. In 2010 Grappa released the choirs debut album "Mine Visur – Folk from children in the city." Still in the spirit of folk music the girls gives accounts of Pr\u00f8ysen\u00b4s "Musevisa", Odd Nordstoga\u00b4s "Jolevise", Sibelius\u00b4 "Julvisa" and the old "Staffan was a stalledr\u00e4ng". Also hymns "My heart always wanders" and "Det hev ei rosa sprunge" are among the songs on this quaint Christmas album, but we also get a number of lesser known songs. The choir consists entirely of schoolchildren from Boltel\u00f8kka – closer eighty girls from the age of six to twelve years. The choir has previously collaborated with a number of musicians, among them Stian Carstensen, Arve Henriksen and Birger Mistereggen. On this new refreshing album the choir is accompanied by the musicians Vegard V\u00e5rdal, \u00c5smund Reistad, Sigurd Hole and Kenneth Ekornes.<\/p>\n
Release concert at Riksscenen December 3<\/p>\n
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Boltel\u00f8kka Jentekor, from Boltel\u00f8kka School at Bislett in Oslo, is celebrating its 10th anniversary by releasing the album Jolevisur.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re presenting Christmas songs this time: ancient and brand new, Norwegian and Swedish, and some that aren\u2019t heard every year,\u201d says director Linn Andrea Fuglseth. \u201cI always look for the ones that are heard least. \u2018Et barn er f\u00f8dt i Betlehem\u2019, in a version from S\u00f8rkedalen, for example. I had never heard that melody before discovering it in J\u00f8rn Simen \u00d8verli\u2019s book Markaviser recently.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boltel\u00f8kka Girls\u2019 Choir was founded by Linn Andrea in 2004, and is connected with Boltel\u00f8kke School in Oslo. In its annual projects the choir has collaborated with musicians such as Stian Carstensen, Tuva Syvertsen, Arve Henriksen, Trio Medi\u00e6val, Haakon Esplo, Nymark Collective and Andr\u00e9 Viervoll.<\/p>\n
The choir is made up exclusively of students at the school, and comprises nearly eighty girls from six to twelve years of age. On Jolevisur the choir is accompanied by seasoned musicians Vegard V\u00e5rdal, \u00c5smund Reistad, Sigurd Hole and Kenneth Ekornes.<\/p>\n
Linn Andrea Fuglseth (b. 1969) grew up in Vestfold, and studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She established the vocal group Trio Medi\u00e6val in 1997. The trio has earned international acclaim for its performances of medieval and contemporary music, and was nominated for a Grammy Award and a Spellemannspris (Norwegian Grammy Award) for the recording Folk Songs (ECM Records, 2007). Linn Andrea has appeared as a soloist with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the Norwegian Baroque Orchestra, the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, the Norwegian Soloists\u2019 Choir, Grex Vocalis, Kvarts and Bang on a Can All-Stars (USA). Trio Medi\u00e6val is releasing its sixth album, Aquilonis, on ECM in autumn 2014. Linn Andrea also sings in the folk music group \u00d8stfolk, and tours for Concerts Norway.<\/p>\n
Release concert at Riksscenen, 3 December 2014.<\/p>\n
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