bits and pieces from the northern island.
Our coverage of Iceland Airwaves 2011. Includes recommendations, photos, and news from the venues of the music festival held in Reykjavík on October 12-16. Stay tuned!
On Saturday, I took it easy and had the best time at Kex Hostel, with Kippi Kaninus, whom unfortunately I could not appreciate in-venue the nigh before due to conflicting schedule. However crowded, Kex maintained a cozy ambiance that harmonized well with the music. Listeners were enraptured by the pervasive sound and the musicians, without [...]
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Day three of Iceland Airwaves was highly fulfilling, probably our festival’s climax. Day three started for us with Bedroom Community & Friends at Kaffibarinn. Nadia Sirota & Valgeir Sigurðsson played together four music pieces; one of the compositions, the most temperamental and also the one I personally enjoyed the most, was Valgeir’s own creation (hint: [...]
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Hard to believe, but for Airwaves day two we had an agenda. In the afternoon, we moved our legs in direction of Kaffibarinn for Bedroom Community & Friends off-venue event. We had a really good time with Michael Wookey, singer, song-writer and multi-instrumentalist, an artist whose music we were not familiar with. He let us [...]
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Day one of Iceland Airwaves was kind of relaxed, so we took our time to wander about a lot, even if rain was hitting hard. We traveled back and forth from Harpa to the city center and enjoyed the smell of the drenched city at night. Apart from Nasa, venues were not super-full and, overall, [...]
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