Konzert: Svavar Knùtur (Singer/Songwriter)

In the organizer's words:

Anyone who has experienced a performance by Svavar Knùtur will remember it for a long time. His performances are an emotional rollercoaster ride between being moved to tears and crying with laughter, captivating you and never letting go.

The Icelandic singer/songwriter and entertainer Svavar Knútur is a musician with countless facets. With ease and exuberant sympathy, he manages to enchant and captivate every audience from the very first moment. He presents his songs in an incredibly touching way and tells the most absurd stories and jokes in between, spiced up with a good dose of black Icelandic humor. Svavar likes to describe himself as a public health troubadour: "I think I might be the broccoli of singer-songwriters, not the sexiest of the vegetables, but still veeeery good for you!" The Icelander is what a perfect entertainer should be: a personality that is perceived as genuine and at the same time goes beyond his own life without appearing artificial. Svavar Knútur emphasizes existence as a normal person, but sheds a different light on it, offers different perspectives. He does on a very small scale what others would like to do for their audiences on the really big stages. Whereby these big ones almost always fail, because it can't work at all to be a normal person on a huge stage. On the other hand, Svavar enchants his audience as if he were one of the greatest.

Expressing the pain of the long winters and the sleeplessness of the 24-hour Icelandic summer sun, Svavar has blossomed into a cheerful and extraordinary musician in recent years. With "cotton-soft, Nordic-raptured folk music" (Rolling Stone), he tells of the hard but not joyless life of the people on the rough Icelandic Westfjord. Brisbane's Rave magazine credited him with a "swoon-inducing voice" and highlighted the "wonderful simplicity and unfiltered emotion in his songs"

In spring 2024 Ahoy! Side B, mixed with songs sung in Icelandic and English, was released, completing his long-running project, as there was a desire to rearrange some songs, it quickly became a double album on vinyl (as well as 2 CD's).

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The concert will take place as part of the Kulturtage 2026.

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Start at 7 pm
Free admission!
The concert will take place in the Sandershaus beer garden.

Photo by Sindri Swan