SOUND DUES
A CELEBRATION OF THE LIFESTYLE, CULTURE AND COMMUNITY OF JAZZ
INTERNATIONAL PRESS LAUNCH, SEPT. 9-12 2021
We are very proud to have partnered with SOUND DUES to bring the music to life and all of Helsingør.
SOUND DUES is an event & experience with an international profile. It is conceptual and ambitious - but at the same time accessible. Intended to be more than what the audience would define as a “music festival”, SOUND DUES will offer an innovative and refreshing addition to the existing international circuit of recurring jazz festivals all over the globe and become a wider celebration of the culture, community and lifestyle of Jazz in its many forms: From music to food, art, fashion, history, education, philosophy, business, literature, belief systems and more. The goal is to present unique concerts and events not just in the historic city of Elsinore, but also all over the municipality with its numerous beautiful locations and cosy small towns.
THE PROGRAM
Miles Davis alumni Bill Evans and long-time Rolling Stones bassist Darryl Jones, National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award 2021 laureate Albert “Tootie” Heath and Scandinavian icon Lisa Nilsson (recently inducted into the Swedish Music Hall of Fame) are among the artists involved in unique projects for the international press launch of SOUND DUES - a four day series taking place live in Denmark and streamed across the world.
Media, industry and the public are invited for a prestigious premiere gala inside Kronborg Castle, see superstars up close inside the living room of the former Stan Getz Family Residence, explore the architectural marvel and modern art collection of Konventum and get intimate at local Jazz club Café Divino. Or pop into one of many shops and cafés in the city where Jazz will be flooding into the streets.
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THURSDAY - SUNDAY SEPT. 9-12 2021
The 2021 program is a special press launch of the annual SOUND DUES program, that will take place Ascension Weekend 2022 (May 26-29). The full program for the inaugural 2022 event will be announced on September 9th, 2021 @ Kronborg.
HELSINGØR - DENMARK
The setting is Helsingør: Immortalized as Elsinore in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, a town in the Capital Region of Denmark. Just 45 kilometers north of Copenhagen, 25 minutes by car, 40 minutesby train and a 20 minute ferry ride across the Øresund strait from Helsingborg, Sweden
SOUND DUES will present unique concerts and events not just in the historic city of Elsinore, but also across the municipality with numerous beautiful locations and cosy small villages. There's a connection to the sea & landscape as well as the aesthetics of the city. Community intertwines with jazz, fashion, coffee, food, art and more, as intimate jazz performances will flood into local shops and cafés - in parallel with the bigger ticketed flagship events.
LISA NILSSON, BILL EVANS, DARRYL JONES, MANU KATCHÉ, NIELS LAN DOKY, TOOTIE HEATH, MADS VINDING + MORE
Denmark is statistically referenced as one of the happiest nations in the world. Perhaps it offers a partial explanation for a highly unusual jazz phenomenon that began in 1958 as many American Jazz legends relocated to Denmark, led by the illustrious Stan Getz and his family, who settled on the Northern coast in Helsingør.
Soon after Getz’ arrival and up through the decades that followed, other icons such as Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon, Thad Jones, Ed Thigpen, Quincy Jones and Mercer Ellington and many more, all relocated to Denmark - many of them permanently. Even Verve Records’ founder and manager of Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald, Norman Granz - arguably jazz history’s most influential impresario - rests at Ordrup Cemetery, north of Copenhagen. Likely because of this, Denmark continues to be a vibrant jazz scene with a new generation of young jazz expats from around the world once again settling in and around Copenhagen.
Over the last century, jazz has crossed all imaginable borders and boundaries and has become known as "a spectacularly accurate model of democracy" (Ken Burns) and a “language of freedom and cooperation” (Niels Lan Doky). Denmark is broadly recognized as one of the most successful democracies in the world, which could perhaps explain its jazz success and attraction. In 2017, PBS NewsHour ran a prime-time feature on American television called “Why Copenhagen is becoming the jazz capital of the world”.