Unusual! - Backblip

A very unusual concert!
Trio X is well known for their recurrent concerts Carte Blanche in Uppsala, mostly playing improvisational music with a lot of jazz influences. Guest musicians/singers are not announced before the concerts, they are always real surprises, sometimes also for Trio X! The guests can sometimes be big stars in Sweden and maybe outside Sweden as well.

During the concert this Saturday, the last concert for 2015, we were surprised via an unuasual combination of instruments and musicians! The guest musicians, Catriona McKay from Scotland, was playing together with Olov Johansson from the folk music group Väsen. Catrionas instrument is a harp, most known from classic music arrangements and Olovs instrument is a "nyckelharpa", a tradional folk music instrument in Sweden. Is was not the first time Catriona and Olov were playing together - look here in Paraguay earlier this year.

It was very inspiring to listen to them, and hear them play together with Trio X as well. We got the possibility to listen to a couple of other musicians as well, Claes Jansson and a guy playing a saxophone, unfortunately I've lost his name. Otherwise, most of the time he was sitting behind his mixer table.

The very unusual combination with the harp and the "nyckelharpa" - see one of the extra photos.