The Supercargo's Daily Photo Project
Folk violin players met up, played together and held masterclasses in conjunction with “dräktbytardagen” which seems to be a) the day winter folk costume is substituted for summer folk costume and b) a market where people into wearing folk dress can buy, sell and exchange costumes. Photo taken in Slottskogen at Gräfsnäsgården on Saturday 10th May.
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Påsk is the Swedish for Easter and gives me the opportunity to alliterate. Punk at Påsk because my sister-in-law was playing bass in Tijuana Suicide, who were the warm-up bandContinue readingPunk at Påsk
Blow that horn! Street musicians, one with a trumpet, play a jazzed-up version of Moscow Nights (loudly) on Drottningtorget … Continue readingBlow that horn!
All this season, fighting wind and rain, choirs have been performing at “the singing Christmas tree” on Drottningtorget. … Continue readingChristmas choir
The Musikhjälpen (Music Help) “glass box” studio on Gustaf Adolfs Torg at night. Musikhjälpen is the Swedish equivalent of the Dutch Serious Request charity benefit. Three guest DJs are locked away in a public studio for three days and tasked with collecting as much money as possible for the current cause. This year it’s “Alla tjejer har rätt att överleva sin graviditet” (All girls have the right to survive their pregnancies).
Top: On the big screen I think that is Swedish singer Sarah Dawn Finer, one of the three guest DJs locked away for the duration of the campaign.
Below: Another of the guest DJs Kodjo Akolor, comedian and TV/radio personality, strums a donated guitar.
Bottom: Emma Knyckare, Swedish comedian and radio presenter, serious and setting up a track.
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Young people, members of Capoeira Brasil Göteborg, demonstrating the Brazilian martial art/dance Capoeira in the Nordstan shopping centre, Sunday. … Continue readingCapoeira
New students at one of Gothenburg’s universities taking part in the nolling – “zeroing” or being made to feel that one is nothing – which is part of the student body’s induction process. These girls are wearing signs that tell passers-by their names and that they are science students and Nollas (“0:a”). They are busking and begging money – perhaps for a drinking party later in the day. … Continue readingNollning