Music festival in the polar night

The concerts drew nearly 2,500 guests. The Polarjazz General says he's confident there won't be any red numbers after this year's festival.

450 were joined vorspiel at Kulturhuset. Overall, there have been over 2,500 guests at the concerts
450 were joined vorspiel at Kulturhuset. Overall, there have been over 2,500 guests at the concerts
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The equipment is rigged up in the fireplace room on the second floor of the mess hall in Ny-Ålesund. A few hundred meters away sits the airship mast, and the black-and-white photos on the walls inside the concert venue show the airship Norge hovering. In a corner of the venue, the legendary polar explorer Roald Amundsen looks over the setting on this Saturday as Sondre Lerche sits on a couch and sings as he plays guitar.

Absolutely 'had to'

The band is finally in Svalbard and now they are performing a concert at 78.5 degrees latitude north. It's not practically possible to have a concert farther north if you want an audience.

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