Amanda Lind, Minister for Culture and Democracy, (and Sports as well), speaking at the cultural festival "Kulturparksfestivalen" in Handen yesterday afternoon. She is a member of the Green Party. Tricky to see from this angle perhaps, but Amanda is pregnant with her third child. She gave a fine speech about all the culture that we have around us. If you speak the local lingo you can hear the speech here.
I visited the festival in the park in Handen on Saturday. Kulturparksfestivalen. Three stages with different types of music. These photos are from a concert with a band called Det stora oväsendet. They played at the Handen Museum. The band name would translate to The big noise. The members all have a long history in the Swedish music scene that goes back to the 1970s and the very political music from that era. One band was called Gudibrallan, God in your pants. Mikael Katzeff played in that band. They started playing together back in 1968. They had one big hit and the band played that song twice during this concert. They were anarchists that used a lot of humour in their music. The violinist and singer here, Ove Wahlqvist wrote a novel called Murder at the music cafe back in the 1970s. Lennart Fröderberg, the bass player cured himself from malignant melanoma. His idea is that cancer comes from Candida albicans and that you should let the cancer heal itself. Samuel Trygger is a poet, computer programmer and a rock musician. Patrik Strömdahl is an award winning sound technician. So between them they have several centuries of musical experience and it was fun to listen to them.
The fourth annual festival in the "Kulturparken" in Handen took place last weekend. I dropped by for a quick visit and a few photos. Had time to hear Garland perform at the Gula Villan stage, and also listen to Tess Mercedes and Doktor Krall playing for a more mature audience at one of the other stages.
