Fifteen years after first  meeting at a jam session in Copenhagen, Dreamers’ Circus have emerged as the pre-eminent international band in Nordic folk and traditional music. This talented trio crafts a sound defined by their virtuosic musical abilities across a diverse range of instruments that include fiddle, accordion, piano and cittern.

Drawing from their backgrounds in traditional and roots music, Dreamers’ Circus  presents a genre-bending blend of folk sensitivity, jazz improvisation and classical complexity, all infused with influences from popular music. The result is a music that is resolutely contemporary but als rhythmically and melodically engrossing.

Piano and accordion player, Nikolaj Busk, rooted in folk music is highly sought after for his performance and arranging skills in the pop music and jazz realms. Violinist, Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen, while reared in a folk-music loving family, emerged as a prodigious classical player who by his early twenties was leader of the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra. Swedish-born, Ale Carr, is also from a folk music lineage provides rhythmic drive on cittern underpinning the bands overall sound.

Over the course of seven albums Dreamers’ Circus have positioned themselves as among Denmark’s leading musical ensembles, as evidenced by their appointment by the Danish Arts Foundation as a “Special Ensemble”. Their accolades include numerous Danish Music Awards, contributions to TV and film soundtracks and compositions and commissions for theatre and contemporary dance productions– the most recent being the highly acclaimed Aaben Dans production of ‘The Lost Musicians’. A busy touring schedule sees the band frequently visit the USA and Japan. They tour regularly in Europe and throughout the Scandinavia.

The name Dreamers’ Circus invokes images of the Big Top and suggests magic, playfulness, acrobatic inventiveness, fun, skill and imagination. In February 2025 they release their latest recording titled “Handed On”.

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