Crochet Steel String
For 15 years, Hekla Stålstrenga has built up to become one of Norway's most popular bands with its very special mix of folk music, shows and pop. With a mixture of warm folk songs, rough riffs and sad ballads, the group has managed to hit something familiar and dear in all of us. Songs such as "Har du Fyr", "Folketonen", "Vise ved Vintersolkverv" and "Siste Sang" have become public property and have long since entered the Norwegian song canon.
Energy and an enormous playful musicality mixed with humor, presence, joy of playing and very competent musicians - this is the recipe for success for Hekla Stålstrenga!
Despite the pandemic and concert break in 2020, Stålstrengene has used its time well. The band delivered an entire commissioned work for the Children's Festival at Senja consisting of 10 brand new, self-written songs made for children, people who have children and people who have been children. This work was never performed as planned in 2020 for reasons we all know about, but in January 2021, Hekla went to the studio in Bodø to record everything with the legend Are Simonsen behind the levers. The man who has produced all the records for the band since Makramé in 2011. The result is the children's album "Skravla Gård" which will be released in the spring of 2021. Here we meet both people and animals who all have their stories to tell.
The band has previously released 7 albums with their very distinctive expression at the intersection of folk music, folk song and popular music. They have been nominated for the fiddler award 5 times and have incurred several songs that have entered the Norwegian wise canon. Songs like Har du Fyr, Folketonen, Vise ved Vintersolkverv and Siste Sang are music many people have a relationship with. They have also diligently frequented NRK's playlists on the radio.
The concerts with Hekla Stålstrenga are known for energy, presence and deep musicality mixed with humor, joy of playing and extremely competent musicians. The band consists of some of the country's most prominent musicians on their respective instruments. Which means that all the members are highly sought after when other artists want musical partners in their projects. Hekla Stålstrenga has been with us before, and we look forward to seeing and hearing again with the group at the opening concert in Eilert Sundthallen.