{"id":902,"date":"2016-04-08T19:27:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T19:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/?p=902"},"modified":"2016-05-19T11:40:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T11:40:36","slug":"arctic-sounds-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/blog\/2016\/04\/08\/arctic-sounds-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Sounds day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greenland\u2019s most ambitious festival \u2013 Arctic Sounds 2016 was kicked off on Thursday April 7<sup>th<\/sup> in Sisimiut. Greenland\u2019s second largest city is crawling with artists from the Nordic and Baltic countries these days, and a few of them performed Thursday night at the city\u2019s cultural venue Taseralik and at the local hotel. The festival Arctic Sounds, that feature 32 names performing during a four-day long festival, also include workshops and more informal pop-up concerts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_904\" style=\"width: 447px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/blog\/2016\/04\/08\/arctic-sounds-day-1\/inuit-feet-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-904\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-904\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-904\" src=\"https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Inuit-feet.jpg\" alt=\"Inuit feet\" width=\"437\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Inuit-feet.jpg 898w, https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Inuit-feet-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Inuit-feet-768x449.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristian Mikkelsen from Inuit Feet performed a short acoustic concert at the shop &#8211; Polarmagasinet.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thursday night was round up by the popular Greenlandic singer Nina Kreutzmann J\u00f8rgensen, who is just about to release her second solo album in which all lyrics are in Danish. A brave project considering the postcolonial relationship between the two nations. Nonetheless Nina and her husband and backing musician Malik performed in front of a packed and attentive audience at the hotel in Sisimiut. In addition to performing her new material, the concert also included a few of her well-known hits in Greenlandic like \u2018Silarsuaq Takuiuk\u2019 (\u2018Have you looked at the world?\u2019), written by Zikaza front-man Siiva Fleeischer, that had everyone singing along.<\/p>\n<p>by Andreas Otte<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/blog\/2016\/04\/08\/arctic-sounds-day-1\/nina-to\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-905\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-905\" src=\"https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Nina-to.png\" alt=\"Nina to\" width=\"620\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Nina-to.png 833w, https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Nina-to-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Nina-to-768x525.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenland\u2019s most ambitious festival \u2013 Arctic Sounds 2016 was kicked off on Thursday April 7th in Sisimiut. Greenland\u2019s second largest city is crawling with artists from the Nordic and Baltic countries these days, and a few of them performed Thursday night at the city\u2019s cultural venue Taseralik and at the local hotel. The festival Arctic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenlandicpopularmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}