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Cathrine Legardh
Cathrine also writes and performs for children in her project NullerNix for sjov!. She organizes charity concerts + vocal jazz workshops, and continuously tries to build up the network among musicians, in particular jazz singers, in DK and abroad. In addition to this she runs a monthly open jazz mic in Copenhagen.
Cathrine is right now doing a tribute tour around Scandinavia for the Swedish singer, Monica Zetterlund. She performs with, amongst others, guitarist, Christer Karlberg, who accompaigned Zetterlund for a decade.
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Cathrine Legardh / Sigurdur Flosason: Land And Sky
by Chris Mosey
A bilingual double album, liable to confirm common prejudices concerning Scandinavians: that they are doomy, brooding folks, given to staring at candles on dark winter nights, while meditating on the quintessential meaninglessness of life. To quote Cathrine Legardh's text for Pumpkin": When life steps into character I am just a feather in a storm A pumpkin with a worm--deep deep inside. Or, then again, this time on Morning In May": Images, black and ...
read more- JAZZ CENTRE THE LOT (Edinburgh Int. Jazz Festival), Aug. 2008.
'A Danish-Norwegian singer with relatively conventional repertoire, Legardh is nevertheless not easy to summarise. Her contribution to the liner notes is entirely frank about her mixed bag of inspirations… Although there are numbers associated with each of them in the programme, she doesn’t really sound like anybody. Also on the plus side... she has a quirky timbre (intonation too at times)!’
- JAZZWISE (B. Priestley), Aug. 2008
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson