Bless bless 2022

Grateful, excited and happy, we say goodbye to 2022.

This was the year we released of our fourth album: Bjargrúnir - which contains Icelandic folk songs in our own arrangements. Our folk song heritage is really a treasure - but we chose to lend a voice to the Icelandic women of past centuries and it was easy for us to mark the common theme of all the songs on the album: resilience.

Like our foremothers, we have been blessed to be able to draw on the resilience of our musical journey - we have woven it into our artistic creation and used its power during the travels of the last year, which were not few.

We kindly thank for all the good the reception of our music. In the new year, we look forward to continuing to create together and share with you, follow new paths and explore unknown lands, both musically and geographically 2023 is bound to be good!

Performance-happy at the FOLKELARM 2022 festival. Photo: Paul Gough

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We are starting to look forward to playing at FOLKELARM in Oslo next week - please check out the festival program and come check us out at the Rikscenen or at the Lavvo.

Og fyrir Íslendinga í Oslo - verið velkomin á Aðventuhátíð Íslensku kirkjunnar í Noregi sunnudaginn 27. nóvember í sænsku Margaretakirkjunni. Ljúf og hátíðleg jólatónlist, hugleiðingar, jólasaga, heitt kakó og kaffi <3

Vévaki release concert at HÚRRA

We were asked by the beautiful people of Vévaki to be a supporting act, along with Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson (HÖH) allherjargoði, and JDFR, during their release concert 13/11 of their brand new album FÓRNSPEKI. Please check out their music on all streaming platforms, and enjoy nordic heathenism and ritualistic soundscapes at its very best <3 <3 <3

UMBRA in Strasbourg (FR)

We just came back from France where we did a short concert tour in Strasbourg. For the occasion of the incoming Icelandic presidency of the Council of Europe (11/2022 - 05/2023) - check out the cultural program for the next 6 months - Umbra performed at the Hemicycle of the European Parliament at the World Forum for Democracy, which was then followed up by a Opening Concert performance at the beautiful Église Saint Guillaume, hosted by our Minister for Foreign Affairs, Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir, the new President of the Committee of Ministers. The concert was sold out and we were so warmly received that we will need to find ways to return! If not only for the local fine delicious foods! Many thanks to the entire Icelandic permanent committee of the European Council for their seamless organization of all events, Cyril Pallaud organist and artistic director of the St Guillaume church for his hospitality, and to all those who attended the events at the Hemicycle and St Guillaume.

WOMEX 2022

We are pretty thrilled to have participated for the first time in the music celebration that is WOMEX. Where have we been all this time?!? We met up with a ton of new friends, made a ton more, saw absolutely fantastic showcases from artists from all over the world, enjoyed beautiful Lisbon to the fullest. See you in A Coruña ‘23 <3