The legendary Wardruna will finally play live in Bucharest next Friday, on the 8th of July, at Arenele Romane. This concert is part of their Nordic Night Summer Open Air Tour that promotes Wardruna’s fifth album, Kvitravn. The opening acts will be Lindy-Fay Hella & Dei Farne and Kalandra.
Lindy-Fay Hella, Wardruna vocalist, alongside the Dei Farne musicians Roy Ole Førland and Ingolf Hella Torgersen create beautiful soundscapes that encourages us to seek the magic in our surroundings. They have released their latest album Hildring via ByNorse Music in November of 2021. ‘Hildring’ is the Norwegian word for mirage. You can find the album on different platforms here Lindy-Fay Hella & Dei Farne – Hildring
Kalandra is a Norwegian/Swedish collective formed by Jogeir, Katrine, Florian and Oskar. They weave ethereal melodies into raw and eerie musical landscapes. After their debut in 2020 with their The Line album, they have composed the original score for the Kingdom Two Crowns: Norse Lands videogame and are now eager to tour internationally. A truly captivating band, it is well worth coming to Arenele Romane from the beginning to catch their live performance. Until then, you can listen to them on Spotify , TikTok or Bandcamp
I believe the Norse folk masters need no in depth introduction: even if they gained international recognition after Einar Selvik’s brilliant compositions that were featured on the soundtrack for the hit series Vikings, Wardruna have woven their Norse stories into the hearts of many long before, since the early 2000’s. Their first album was released in 2009, namely the first installment of the Runaljod series entitled gap var Ginnunga. For context, the album that contains some of the creations made for the Vikings series, Skald, was going to be released in 2018.
Wardruna are dedicated to creating modern renditions of ancient Norse and Nordic traditions. They use a variety of traditional and historic instruments, as well as incorporating natural sounds in their music, such as the sound of trees, stones, bones, birds and so on, enhancing thus the atmospherics and creating an almost esoteric natural connection.
As a live band, Wardruna operates in various constellations of personnel but the standard configuration the last years has been:
Einar Selvik – Vocals, Taglharpa, Kravik-lyre, Bukkehorn
Lindy-Fay Hella – Vocals
Arne Sandvoll – Percussion, Backing vocals
Eilif Gundersen – Bukkehorn, Lur, Flute, Backing vocals
HC Dalgaard – Drums, Percussion, Backing vocals
John Stenersen – Mora-harp
Wardruna released their fifth studio album Kvitravn (White-Raven) in January 2021. A year later, as a prelude to the upcoming concerts that the world can finally enjoy this summer, Wardruna presented Kvitravn – First Flight of the White Raven – a live-in-studio recording that was broadcasted online as a type of release show for the album, since at the time live concerts were still not possible. This recording is now available on different digital and physical formats. Einar commented about this album, saying:
“This was recorded in a time when it was not allowed to perform in front of an audience, which made it very important for me that the recording itself truly captured the energy of a live performance. What you will hear, is what we performed in that moment in that room. No re-recordings or autotune was done in the afterwork. Just like for a regular concert, the set list was carefully put together with a selection of songs from all our albums, including a handful songs from the new album, which we performed for the very first time. On the day of recording, we all stood together in the same room for the first time in over a year. Everyone came focused and well prepared and the energy felt like no time had passed. I hope you will agree!”
Watch the official music video for Kvitravn (White Raven) below:
Concert Schedule
Open Doors 18:00
Lindy-Fay Hella & Dei Farne 19:00 – 19:35
Kalandra 20:00 – 20:40
Wardruna 21:15 – 23:00
Tickets
As of writing this article, the following categories are sold out: A, B and C.
For categories D and E, tickets are available at the following prices:
Category D: presale – 99 lei, at the gate – 110 lei
Category E: presale – 79 lei, at the gate- 100 lei
You can buy the tickets online through the ia bilet portal
Tickets are available through iabilet.ro and at the following stores: Flanco, Unirii Metro Station 1, Muzica, IQ Box and Selfpay terminals. Tickets can be acquired by using these payment options: online card payment, PayPal, Sodexo cultural tickets, through your Vodafone/Orange services (will be billed accordingly) or by ordering through Fan Courier and reimbursing the ticket price.
Access Rules
Starting with 18:00, access to Arenele Romane will be made through the park entrance downstairs of the Arena. After the gates are open, you can enter the concert at any time. The concert will be open air.
Please take note that leaving the concert site after ticket validation will not be permitted.
Guest will be allowed entrance only to the designated category, as shown on the ticket.
The following items are forbidden: bottles, cans, food, drinks, fireworks, guns or any dangerous weapons, lasers, umbrellas, professional or semi-professional photo/video equipment.
Pets are not allowed.
The organizers warn that the show will contain strong lights with a stroboscopic effect that may be harmful for guest with photosensitive epilepsy.
A concert recommended by Din Întunerec!
