SOFIE LIVEBRANT

“The madness, the sacrificing, suffering and pain. The joy, the hot, the love, under this huge black curtain. Black night.”

A new album about secrets, dreams and borders. Welcome to a special release concert and an exhibition at Stallet Folk & Världsmusik, Stockholm Jazz Festival, the 6th October at 20.00! Musicians: Lisa Långbacka accordion, Johan Lindström guitars, Dan Berglund bass… and guests…

Tickets 150:-  http://www.tickster.com/sv/events/vbf5b1a46k36y7y/

Upcoming Concerts:

12/3 Stadsbiblioteket Mariehamn, Åland

17/3 “Gimle” Roskilde Denmark kl 19.30

18/3 “Klaverfabrikken” Hillerød Denmark kl 19.30

19/3 “Hårbøllehuset”  Hårbølle  Denmark kl 15.00

12/5 Första Världsfreden, Allhelgona kyrkan, Sweden 19.00

26/5 SINGLE RELEASE  “Le Secret”, the world.

30/5 Cercle Suedois, Paris, France Doors 19.00

31/5 Maison des Etudiants Suédois 19.30, Paris, France

1/6 Gästspel Svenska Konstföreningen, Paris, France

11/6 Högsbo Kyrka, Göteborg kl 19.00

29/6 Unnaryds hembygdspark, Sweden kl 19.00

1/7 SaltoFolk, Saltoloukta, Sweden kl 20.00

8/7 SVT2 Musikdokumentär Sånger från havet – Lighthouse Stories.

12/8 Läckö Visfestival, Sweden. kl 18.30

6/9 SINGEL RELEASE “BLACK NIGHT” on Spotify and Itunes.

SECRETS TOUR:

6/10 Stallet Folk & Världsmusik, Sweden kl 20.00

8/10 Högsbo Kyrka, Göteborg kl 17.00

12/10 Promotion/intervjues UN -house, Genéve, Switzerland

13/10 House Concert, Genéve, Switzerland

15/10 Le Fonds Rose, Lyon, France kl 16.00

28/10 Aggers Hus, Örebro kl 19.00

29/10 Vänermuseet, Lighthouse Stories, Lidköping kl16.00

8/11 Konstepidemin, Göteborg, Sweden kl 19.00

9/11 Biblioteket i Hillerod, Denmark kl 19.00

11/11 Marinmuseet, Lighthouse Stories, Karlskrona, Sweden

12/11 Lundsbrunn, Sweden kl 16.00

20/11  Allhelgonakyrkan, Stockholm, Sweden  kl 19.00

SINGLE RELEASE “LE SECRET” 26 MAY 2017 ON SPOTIFY & ITUNES 

“Je veux voler, être happée, m’envoler, ou-bli-é le passé. Même si c’est arrivé et même si… Je vais porter l’univers”  

(lyrics: S.Livebrant/Roberto Garcia Saez)

Dokumentären Lighthouse Stories sändes den 17 sept 20.05 och finns på SVTPlay till 18 oktober! Sofie Livebrant har med musiker rest runt Nordsjön för att spela på fyrar och göra intervjuer med fyrvaktare och människorna runt fyrarna. Projektet är inspirerat och byggt på romanen Lighthousekeeping av Jeanette Winterson (2004) och handlar om en föräldralösflicka, Silver, som växer upp i fyren Cape Wrath i Nordvästra Skottland. Filmaren Peter Wirén har gjort en musikvideo på Breathe in Breathe out, som spelades in inne i verkstan på fyren Cape Wrath. Musiken finns på Itunes och på Spotify!

More music videos, these are filmed at Lindesnes Fyr in Norway 2015.Part Broken Part Whole You Begin Again and These Were My Stories!

The music documentary “Lighthouse Stories – Havets sånger” will be broadcasted 17th Sept at 20.00 at SVT2!

Music live performances:

13 Aug STOCKHOLM “Lasse i Parken” 19.00, with Lisa Långbacka. Also performing is Lars Demian and David Tallroth.

19 Aug STOCKHOLM “icebreaker St:Erik” outside the Wasa museum. 19.00. With Hal Parfitt-Murray, Petter Berndalen, Filip Jers! Free Entrance!

27 Aug STORULVÅN with Svante Sjöblom 20.00

2 Sept GREEBESTAD FOLKMUSIK FESTIVAL With Lisa, Henrik and me!

16 Sept KAFE SJÖSTUGAN With Lisa Långbacka and Lisa Rydberg = LISAS, the best duo in the world. 100:- entre.

4 June Aqua Blå Festival, Vänersborg Hal Parfitt-Murray, Henrik Cederblom & me.

14 June Music Boat Blidösund, Stockholm Me, Henrik Cederblom, Filip Jers and many music guest performances ….

Proudly announcing that the album Lighthouse Stories Won the prize for “Best Release of the Year” at The Folk and World Music gala in Sweden 2016! Here is the Lighthouse Stories Short Trailer for the documentary. The full movie can be seen in August on Swedish Television!

Lighthouse Stories Album is rewarded with The Manifest Prize 2016, in the category “VISA” (Folk tunes)! We are so happy! Thanks to ALL involved! Click here for a film teaser of the project!

A movie has been made out of Lee Craigie’s trip to Cape Wrath 2015! Together with music from the album “Lighthouse Stories” and fragments from Jeanette Winterson’s novel Lighthousekeeping. I feel stunned! Click here for a teaser!

The film is broadcasted at Edinburgh Film Festival 6-7 feb 2016 where she also tells about the trip.

Excerpts from her blog:

“Perhaps I should have given up and accepted that it [Cape Wrath] just wasn’t meant to be but then this happened. I was at a road race in an out of the way north eastern coastal town shortly after yet another failed attempt to visit the Cape when a guy came up to me and told me there was a gig about to start in a nearby lighthouse. I ambled along after the race and became engulfed in a friendly fold of woollen jumpers and wellington boots while the wind and rain did their thing outside. On a small, makeshift stage there sat singing a Swedish angel. Sofie Livebrant had written her entire album “Lighthouse Stories” using prose taken from a book set at Cape Wrath. In the days that followed, I listened to Sofie’s music and read the book that inspired her album (“Lighthouse Keeping” by Jeannette Winterson). Both touched me deeply and a theme emerged that sent me reeling. It was that of attempting to balance two powerful aspects of my personality, the need for freedom and the need for belonging. I was heading back to Cape Wrath”