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What’s on in Sweden: May 30 – June 5

What’s on in Sweden: May 30 – June 5: Stockholm marathon, folk music in Gothenburg, Salsa dancing in Malmö.

Published: 29 May 2008 16:33 CEST
What's on in Sweden: May 30 - June 5

STOCKHOLM

Sports

Stockholm marathon

The competitors run two laps of the course through the middle of the city. The winning times for men and women are reckoned to be 2 hours and 10 minutes and 2 hours and 30 minutes, respectively. Competitors come from all around the world and, if you don’t feel like running, you can watch for free.

Date: Saturday 31st May

Time: 14:00

More information: www.stockholmmarathon.se

Rumble of the Kings 2008, Martial arts gala

This tournament sees the return of the K1 fighters. See the world’s best fighters battle it out. The winner goes to the finals in Japan.

Location: Hovet

Time: 19:00

Date: Saturday 31st May

Price: 345 – 1995 kronor

More information: www.therumbleofthekings.com

Theatre/Entertainment:

Wallmans Salonger, Show

A circus show based on the history of the theatre it plays in. One can also eat dinner: choose between lemon-seafood salad, pepper-grilled beef tenderloin, “Pommes Anna” (potato cake with Parmesan cheese), and three flavours of panna cotta.

Location: Teatergatan 3. Doors open 18:30

Date: Friday 30th May

Price: 150 kronor for the show and 425 kronor for a three course meal.

Ring: 08 55 50 60 00

More information: www.wallmans.com

Tosca

Classical middle ages opera with powerful music

Location: Royal Opera House, Jacobstorg 2

Time: 19:30

Date: Friday 30th May

Classic Car Festival

Welcome to a festival for the whole family on the island of Djurgården.

Procession through Stockholm, boxcar Grand Prix, racing, the Nalen Brass Festival, Moped Rally, Classic Boat Show, flyby with historic aircraft.

Free admission.

Date: Sunday 1st June

More information: www.operan.se

GOTHENBURG

Punch and Judy show

Pack a picnic basket, take the kids and go see the summer’s most traditional form of entertainment.

Free entrance

Date: Sunday 1st June

Location: The Kasperteater close to Lilla Dammen in Slottsskogen.

Note: shows will be called off if it is raining

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

See Harrison Ford in what is sure to be yet another classic adventure. Indiana takes out his hat once again to save the world.

Location: Biopalatset

Times: 15:00, 18:00, 21:00

Price: 95 kronor

More information: www.sf.se

Children’s Zoo and horse-back riding

At Barnens Zoo the children can pat the animals and have competent animal keepers teach them more about different kinds of animals. There is also horse-back riding for children, age 2-13 years.

Price: Barnens Zoo is free admission, horse-back riding 20 kronor

Location: Barnens Zoo, Slottsskogen.

Date: Tuesday 20 May 2008 to Sunday 7 September 2008

More information: 031 365 58 23

Folk music conference

Put on your dancing shoes. This conference is for everybody. There will be folk music, dancing and singing. Refreshments are available but why not make a picnic out of the experience.

Location: Gräfsnäsgården

Price: free admission

Date: Saturday 31st May 2008

MALMÖ

French film festival

See a variety of French films shown through the day.

Location: Panora, S:t Gertrudsgatan 4

Date: 23rd May – 5th June

Price: 200 kronor per person

More information: www.folketsbio.se

Ring: 040 611 27 07

Cuba Cafe

This is Malmö’s hottest salsa joint. Authentic Cuban band get the beat going. If you fancy dancing all night long, this is the place to be.

Location: Malmö’s Folkets Park

Date: Monday 26th may – Saturday 31st May

Time: 17:00

Price: free admission , 50 kronor after 22:00

More information: www.malmosfolketspark.se

Sail with Tvekamp av Elbogen

Go sailing on the world’s largest medieval boat. A family day out, take the kids along.

Location: Koggs museum

Date: Saturday 31st May, Sunday 1st June

Time: 09:45

Price: kids 75 kronor, adult 150 kronor

More information: www.medeltidsskeppen.se

MUSIC

Meet the Spanish rapper bringing flamenco and bossa nova into hip-hop

Spanish rapper C. Tangana was taking a big risk when he started mixing old-fashioned influences like flamenco and bossa nova into his hip-hop -- but it's this eclectic sound that has turned him into a phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic.

Published: 23 May 2021 08:38 CEST
Meet the Spanish rapper bringing flamenco and bossa nova into hip-hop
Spanish rapper Anton Alvarez known as 'C. Tangana' poses in Madrid on April 29, 2021. Photo: Javier Soriano/AFP

The 30-year-old has emerged as one of the world’s biggest Spanish-language stars since his third album “El Madrileno” — the Madrilenian — came out in February. That ranks him alongside his superstar ex-girlfriend Rosalia, the Grammy-winning Catalan singer with whom he has co-written several hits.

C. Tangana, whose real name is Anton Alvarez Alfaro, has come a long way since a decade ago when he became known as a voice of disillusioned Spanish youth in the wake of the financial crisis.These days his rap is infused with everything from reggaeton and rumba to deeply traditional styles from Spain and Latin America, with a voice often digitised by autotune.

“It’s incredible that just when my music is at its most popular is exactly when I’m doing something a bit more complex, more experimental and less
trendy,” he told AFP in an interview.

And he is unashamed to be appealing to a wider audience than previously: his dream is now to make music “that a young person can enjoy in a club or someone older can enjoy at home while cooking”.

‘People are tired’

The rapper, who sports a severe semi-shaved haircut and a pencil moustache, has worked with Spanish flamenco greats including Nino De Elche, Antonio Carmona, Kiko Veneno, La Hungara and the Gipsy Kings.

In April he brought some of them together for a performance on NPR’s popular “Tiny Desk Concert” series, which has already drawn nearly six million
views on YouTube.

Shifting away from trap, one of rap’s most popular sub-genres, and venturing into a more traditional repertoire was a dangerous move — especially for someone with a young fanbase to whom rumba, bossa nova and bolero sound old-fashioned.

“I think people are tired. They’ve had enough of the predominant aesthetic values that have previously defined pop and urban music,” he said.

Parts of his latest album were recorded in Latin America with Cuban guitarist Eliades Ochoa of Buena Vista Social Club, Uruguayan
singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler, Mexican folk artist Ed Maverick and Brazil’s Toquinho, one of the bossa nova greats.

“What struck me most everywhere I went was the sense of tradition and the way people experienced the most popular music, and I don’t mean pop,” he said.

A new direction

C. Tangana started out in 2006 rapping under the name Crema. When the global economic crisis swept Spain a few years later, hard-hitting trap was
the perfect way to voice the angst of his generation. But after more than a decade of rapping, things changed.

“When I was heading for my 30s, I hit this crisis, I was a bit fed up with what I was doing… and decided to give voice to all these influences that I
never dared express as a rapper,” he said.

The shift began in 2018 with “Un veneno” (“A poison”) which came out a year after his big hit “Mala mujer” (“Bad woman”).

And there was a return to the sounds of his childhood when he used to listen to Spanish folk songs at home, raised by a mother who worked in
education and a journalist father who liked to play the guitar. The Latin American influences came later.

“It started when I was a teenager with reggaeton and with bachata which were played in the first clubs I went to, which were mostly Latin,” he said.

Studying philosophy at the time, he wrote his first raps between stints working in call centres or fast-food restaurants.

As to what comes next, he doesn’t know. But one thing he hopes to do is collaborate with Natalia Lafourcade, a Mexican singer who dabbles in folk, rock and pop — another jack of all musical trades.

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