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What’s on in Sweden: July 25 – 31

What’s on in Sweden: July 25th – 31st. Europride comes to Stockholm, Iron Maiden in Gothenburg and Chico Trujillo in Malmö.

What’s on in Sweden: July 25 - 31

STOCKHOLM

Stockholm Pride and Europride 2008

Stockholm Pride has been painting the streets rainbow since 1998. The festival has grown into one of Stockholm’s largest and most appreciated and this year will be even bigger as Stockholm has been chosen to host Europride.

This year Pride will be filling the whole city with its special brand of joy with its base as always in Tantolunden on Södermalm. 60,000 people joined the 2007 Pride Parade at the climax of the ten day festival, so go get your glad rags on and join in the fun.

Price: 800 kronor

Location: Tantolunden and venues across the city

Time: Friday July 25th-Sunday August 3rd

Tickets: www.ticnet.se

More information: www.stockholmpride.org/en

About a frog

Why must princesses always wear high-heeled shoes? And why are princes turned into frogs? Frogs can be slimy. They can however be sweet and jump really high. This is a story about, apart from frogs, the job of a princess.

A dance performance for children from four-years-of-age by Gunilla Heilborn.

Price: Free of charge

Location: Under Eken, Djurgårdsvägen 42

Time: Saturday July 25th-27th, 3pm

Tickets: www.ticnet.se

More information: www.zebradans.nu

Super Swing Showdown

Huge jazz and swing party on the roof of Stockholm’s culture house. Drop in Lindy Hop introduction course followed by an international dance competition – no holds barred! No Mercy! International Jury of Legends! Authentic jazz dance & tap. Surprise performances! Hundreds of Lindy Hoppers from all corners of the globe including Stockholm’s own Swing All Stars.

Price: 250 kronor

Location: Kulturhuset, Sergels torg 3

Times: Sunday July 27rd, 6pm

Tickets: https://www.webbiljett.se/kulturhuset

More information: www.kulturhuset.stockholm.se

GOTHENBURG

Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden are one of the most influential and successful bands in the heavy metal genre. The rock veterans formed in 1975 and their Scandinavian tour borrows from their early years and is in the style of the band’s hugely successful “Powerslave Tour.”

Price: From 450 kronor

Location: Ullevi, Skånegatan

Time: Saturday July 26th, 7pm

Tickets: www.ticnet.se

More information: www.ullevi.se

Paul Potts and Symphony orchestra

The rags to riches tale of British opera singer Paul Potts just keeps on rolling. With 60,000 albums sold and sell-out audiences across the continent, Paul Potts is a legend in the making.

Potts returns to Sweden this summer for three exclusive outside concerts – this time accompanied by an entire symphony orchestra. There is sure not to be a dry eye in the place.

Price: 290 kronor

Location: Slottskogsvallen, Slottskogsgatan

Time: Saturday July 26th, 8pm

Tickets: Tickets: www.ticnet.se

More Information: www.kulturbolaget.se

Crazy golf: International Open Championship

Further proof that human beings can find the competition in any pastime – Gothenburg will this weekend be hosting an International Open Championship in…..crazy golf.

Price: Free of charge

Location: Tuve Tigers Bangolfsklubben, Grästuvevägen 25

Time: Friday July 25th-Sunday July 27th

More information: http://www.iksurd.se/minigolf

MALMÖ

Chico Trujillo

One of Chile’s innovative giants within cumbia/ska. The band is a result of 10 years of experimentation across the latin genres. By mixing cumbia, bolero and ska and blending in inspiring texts and boundless energy, Chico Trujillo has enchanted audiences the world over.

Price: Free of charge

Location: Pildammsteatern, Pildammsparken

Time: Tueday July 29th, 7pm

More Information: www.malmo.se/sommarscen

Sousou & Maher Cissoko

This kora duo combines the traditional and the innovative with expressive song and rhythmic sounds. A west African musical experience for the whole family.

Price: Free of charge

Location: Ribersborgstranden, Västra Innerstaden

Time: Monday July 28th, 9pm

More Information: www.malmo.se/sommarscen

Persepolis

An open air showing of the fantastic animated film adaption of Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical novel of the same name, where she experiences revolution, freedom, love and loneliness. Directed by Satrapi & V Paronnaud.

Live: Rapper Behrang Miri will perform his brand of oriental music with Swedish, Persian and Arabic lyrics before the showing.

Price: Free of charge

Location: Folkets Park, Malmö

Time: Sunday July 27th, 10pm

More Information: www.malmo.se/sommarscen

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.

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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