A driving force in Nordic world music is the Danish/Swedish trio, Dreamers’ Circus. Contemporary and endlessly innovative in their approach, they draw inspiration from the deep traditions of folk music in the region, reshaping them into something bright, shiny and new. Dreamers’ Circus are: Nikolaj Busk (DK) on piano and accordion, Ale Carr (SWE) on Nordic cittern and Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen (DK), also of the Danish String Quartet, on violin.
Dreamers’ Circus display inventiveness and talent in their approach to performances that include music from Denmark and Sweden as well as Finland, Norway and the far reaches of the windswept Faroe Islands. The ensemble has won six prestigious Danish Music Awards and was were named 2023 Artist of the Year by the Danish national classical radio channel P2, becoming the first non-classical group to earn that honor. The trio has have toured throughout Europe and beyond, with performances in the US, Japan and at the Sydney Opera House in Australia, opening ears, eyes, minds and hearts of the people they meetwith their distinctive sound. The trio regularly collaborates collaborate and performs perform with artists and a variety of musical ensembles and orchestras as well as artists from different music genres and art forms, such as theatre and dance.
In the 2024-2025 season, Dreamers’ Circus is presented in the United States by Gallo Center for the Arts in Modesto, California, La Jolla Music Society, San Francisco Performances, Emerald City Music in Seattle, Portland Friends of Chamber Music, the Schubert Club in Minneapolis, and Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania. Recent US highlights include performances presented by Celebrity Series of Boston, Detroit Chamber Music, and Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC.
In 2020, Dreamers' Circus released their 5th album, Blue White Gold on Vertical Records. It was awarded Album of the Year by the Danish Music Awards 2020 and won the 2021 Carl Prize for Composer of the Year (Roots music category). Lost Swans was released in 2022 and is available on vinyl as a double-album alongside Blue White Gold. In May 2022, Dacapo Records released Langt ud’ i skoven, a collaboration with Denmark’s DR National Children’s Choir, featuring old Danish children's songs in new arrangements by Dreamers' Circus. In fall 2022, the trio released Handed On, a book containing 58 of their original pieces of Nordic folk music, arranged for varying degrees of difficulty, along with professionally recorded videos to accompany each tune. An album featuring many pieces from this project will be released on Vertical Records in February 2025, also titled Handed On.
Dreamers’ Circus views view their traditional roots as a point of departure and know tradition should not be a straitjacket. This adventurous attitude, coupled with their outstanding musicianship, has brought the band to the forefront of the Nordic folk and global music scene.
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