Welcome to the Backyard Festival on May 30th
Join us as we kick off summer with live music and great company at the Backyard Festival. Talented students will take the stage while you enjoy free coffee, and giveaways. The first 100 tenants who meet us at the statue in the park will also receive a free portion of food from the Mexican food truck that will be on site. And don’t miss out on snapping a fun photo in our photo booth. Gather all your friends and soak up the afternoon sun!
When
May 30th from 16:00.
Where
In Picasso Park in our Kungshamra student housing area. Set your GPS to Kungshamravägen 64, 170 70 Solna to find us.
How
The event is free. Bring your neighbors, maybe a picnic, your best mood, and dress for the weather — we’ll handle the rest!
We are super excited for this year’s festival! If you are as excited as we are, you are most welcome to register your interest here so that we have a clue of how many that will come, but you can of course just stop by without a registration.
Line-up
“We are a band consisting of three women aged between 23-38 years (Anahita Harati, Alexia Rohdin, and Susanna Bernhard Ellehag). Our band name, Jus cogens, means binding norms of international law, a name inspired by the fact that two of us met in law school.
Thanks to music, we have been able to gather energy alongside our studies and we aim to release many more songs in the future. Our songs are often philosophical and lyrically focused. The lyrics reflect situations we have experienced in our lives, but are sometimes cryptically designed or somewhat enigmatic.
Inner desires are a recurring theme in our lyrics, and when we write, we often combine accounts of challenges with uplifting messages. We believe that at the end of the day, it’s about reminding us that humans rarely see more than individual scenes from each other’s ‘movies’ in life, but things often get easier if one manages to share and talk.”
”There is beauty in a Stockholm sunset, where the sun paints the sky with purple nostalgia. As six travelers gather to gaze at the clouds, a wordless conversation is born.
‘Cloudgazing’ entails looking upward to explore inward, embracing life’s fluidity while sitting on the shore, and sharing this journey with cherished companions.
Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, this ensemble of jazz-rock ambassadors blends reverberated guitar, piano, vocals, bass, saxophones, and rhythmic grooves into a seamless fusion of modern jazz and prog rock.
Coming together from eight countries and diverse musical backgrounds, they invite you to join them on this collective journey. Reflect, immerse, and wander through the ever-changing colors of their music — best experienced before sundown. ☁️”
”Last of the English Gentlemen is the musical persona of Nottinghamshire born songwriter Chris Shannon. LOTEG writes lyrical, electric infused folk fables with a literary lilt and a barrelhouse of longing, which, along with a charismatic and humorous stage presence, make for cathartic, intimate live performances. His rich, poetic lyrics exploring love, suffering, religion, reincarnation, and weatherworn tales of drunkenness and dissolution have drawn comparisons to Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, and Nick Cave.
Along with his band The Origami Pirates, Last of the English Gentlemen’s live show is a soft storm of waltzes, polkas, ballads and shanties that will leave you captivated and profoundly moved.”
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