First Aid Kit meets the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
The Swedish duo First Aid Kit, featuring sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg, have fans all over the world who love their mix of American folk music and cool, thoughtful pop. Finally, they come to Berwaldhallen and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra to perform a string of their songs in symphonic arrangements under the baton of Erik Arvinder.
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The iconic folk-pop duo First Aid Kit, consisting of sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg, has taken the music world by storm since their inception in 2007. Raised in a musical family, they began writing their own music in their early teens and made their recording debut in 2008 with the EP Drunken Trees. Since then, the duo has released five full-length albums: The Big Black & the Blue (2010), The Lion’s Roar (2012), Stay Gold (2014), Ruins (2018), and Palomino (2022).
The Lion’s Roar, produced by Bright Eyes member Mike Mogis, was First Aid Kit’s first album to top the Swedish charts and enter the album charts in the USA and the UK. For this album, they received, among other awards, the Nordic Music Prize and four Grammis. The following album, Stay Gold, went platinum in Sweden and gold in England in 2015.
First Aid Kit has collaborated with artists such as Conor Oberst, Jack White, and Zara Larsson, and they regularly perform at the world’s largest venues. The concerts with Erik Arvinder and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra are the duo’s first in the Swedish Radio Concert Hall, Berwaldhallen.
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra is a multiple-award-winning ensemble renowned for its high artistic standard and stylistic breadth, as well as collaborations with the world’s finest composers, conductors, and soloists. It regularly tours all over Europe and the world and has an extensive and acclaimed recording catalogue.
Daniel Harding has been Music Director of the SRSO since 2007, and since 2019 also its Artistic Director. His tenure will last throughout the 2024/2025 season. Two of the orchestra’s former chief conductors, Herbert Blomstedt and Esa-Pekka Salonen, have since been named Conductors Laureate, and continue to perform regularly with the orchestra.
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs at Berwaldhallen, concert hall of the Swedish Radio, and is a cornerstone of Swedish public service broadcasting. Its concerts are heard weekly on the Swedish classical radio P2 and regularly on national public television SVT. Several concerts are also streamed on-demand on Berwaldhallen Play and broadcast globally through the EBU.
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