Sofia Talvik - Americana / Folk with Swedish Roots

During 2019 Swedish artist Sofia Talvik is embarking on a world tour that includes several European countries, New Zealand and an extensive U.S tour. She will be sharing a variety of songs from her full length albums, as well as some new tunes from her upcoming album, due to be released later in 2019.

Sofia Talvik is a rare artist and an avid storyteller with a voice comparable to giants like Joni Mitchell, or as the Folk/Americana Magazine NoDepression said it ”A singer/songwriter who is able to evoke the essence of Laurel Canyon circa the ‘60s as expressed in the work of Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Buffy Sainte-Marie and others who were able to paint beautiful tapestries from words and music.”.

Prepare yourself for an unique and intimate evening, not unlike the 70's coffeehouses and speakeasy's. You will be up close and personal with a world class act that has played big festivals like Lollapalooza and SxSW and opened for artists like Maria McKee and David Duchovny (X-files, Californication). It is in this kind of setting where she can casually joke and communicate with the audience that her strength as a performer shines the most.

Her delicate songs are performed in an intimate way, showing off Sofia’s angelic voice enhanced only by a tasteful mix of harmonies and delays, accompanied by the steady picking of her acoustic guitar and the rhythm section consisting of her own two feet, bells and a stomp box.

She's an experienced international touring artist that has toured through 47 U.S states, many of the countries in Europe and far away places like New Zealand.

Sofia Talvik just released her 8th studio album "Paws Of a Bear". The album is reflecting inwards instead of to her surroundings, exploring thoughts about identity and home. The first single "Take Me Home" has been fetured on many radio station across the U.S and Europe.

"Even though this young lady is from Sweden, I’d place her at the forefront of the American vanguard. One listen will tell you why and how." - PopDose

"Simone White has a voice like ether. It's sweetly airy and hypnotic. Hearing it can pull you under to a strangely beautiful, glittering world where nothing seems real." - NPR 
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"An unbeatable "world-beat" combination: traditional music, given a contemporary twist and a post-modern point of view." - Rolling Stone

Värttinä is Finland's most successful contemporary folk music group. Värttinä's roots are in the Karelia region of Finland, specifically women's vocal traditions and ancient poems known as runos.

Fronted by three female singers and supported by virtuosic acoustic musicians, Värttinä composes most of their music and lyrics, based on traditional Karelian and other Finno-Ugric styles but with modern and thoroughly distinctive and original arrangements.

Since 1990, Värttinä has toured internationally and built a solid reputation as one the most inventive and uncompromising ensembles in the contemporary world music arena.

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