Helene Blum & Harald Haugaard Band


Biography Helene Blum & Harald Haugaard Band

Helene Blum & Harald Haugaard Band

Helene Blum & Harald Haugaard
belong to Denmark’s best and busiest musicians, since they played more than 500 concerts within the past five years – most of them abroad. Their band consists of violoncellist Kirstine Elise Pedersen, guitar player Mikkel Grue and drummer Sune Rahbek. Together they form all aspects and the dynamic of Blum’s and Haugaard’s repertoire. When they opened the Tönder festival in August 2014 with a great concert, the Danish daily paper „Jyske Vestkysten“ called it a „musical firework“.

Now, Helene Blum will be on tour with her new solo album „Dråber af tid / Droplets of Time“. Many of the songs were written and produced by herself and manifest her personal handwriting and multilateral musicianship. Deeply impressed by the traditional and modern nordic Folk, Helene Blum also flirts with Pop, opens herself up to Jazz and gets inspired by the art of singing/songwriting. She develops her own vision out of the tradition into a contemporary sound.

Four years have passed since her last solo album „Men med åbne øjne“ appeared. Many of the new songs are about time: about lost time but also about passed and future moments. And they are about turning points that are able to change life completely. Furthermore, the songs are about the course of time, since Helene Blum composed love songs but also one song about the Danish-German-War 1864, ”Et øjebliks stilhed”. However, there are also new arranged traditional songs as ”Som stjernerne på himlens blå”. While other songs are inspired by Danish poetry as „En lille Dråbe Blod”. With a text from Sophus Claussen Helene Blum marks a strong and moving start for her album.

Helene Blum’s songs are completed on album and tour through Harald Haugaard, who is one of Denmark's best musicians for more than 15 years. His virtuous way to play the fiddle connects easiness with a richness of sounds. His compositions are contemporary, original and deeply rooted within the Danish tradition.

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