"Beloved Edith" - a tribute to Edith Södergran
A warm, poetic and sensual afternoon in the company of the Finnish-Swedish poet Edith Södergran's (1892-1923) Swedish poems and the duo who interpret them musically.. Anna Kruse has set the powerful, existential, life-affirming tones
poems and tells between the songs about the poetess Edith's short and intense life.

The music stretches like a cat In the glow of the morning light between melancholic forest floor-scented folk songs and rank champagne tango, with a big chunk of jazz and improvisation. Together with Nicholas Kingo on piano, rhodes, languishing saw and accordion, Anna sings and interprets the poems with empathy and a twinkle in her eye. The music contains the many moods that vibrate in a life and occasionally it lifts and opens up towards the summer sky. A meeting of souls.

The Finnish-Swedish/Danish actor Stina Ekblad has said: "Edith Södergran's poetry and Anna Kruse's music and ...

"Beloved Edith" - a tribute to Edith Södergran
A warm, poetic and sensual afternoon in the company of the Finnish-Swedish poet Edith Södergran's (1892-1923) Swedish poems and the duo who interpret them musically.. Anna Kruse has set the powerful, existential, life-affirming tones
poems and tells between the songs about the poetess Edith's short and intense life.

The music stretches like a cat In the glow of the morning light between melancholic forest floor-scented folk songs and rank champagne tango, with a big chunk of jazz and improvisation. Together with Nicholas Kingo on piano, rhodes, languishing saw and accordion, Anna sings and interprets the poems with empathy and a twinkle in her eye. The music contains the many moods that vibrate in a life and occasionally it lifts and opens up towards the summer sky. A meeting of souls.

The Finnish-Swedish/Danish actor Stina Ekblad has said: "Edith Södergran's poetry and Anna Kruse's music and voice meet together, like sisters from different times. They go side by side, sonorous, dreamy, wild and wistful." Stina is on 4 of Anna's 7 releases and together they have done countless concerts together around the Nordics, with a jazz duo, a string quartet and most recently with the Symphony Orchestra in Helsingborg.

The wish is that you leave the concert lifted in soul and heart with a feeling that you must go home and read more Södergran....

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