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News about Inger Marie and her music
May 06/10:
ANJAZZ, HAMAR, NORWAY
Inger Marie and the band showed up with a great concert at Anjazz in Hamar late April. The concert was very well rewieved by critics.

" Inger Marie startet det hele og fikk vist publikum hvilken varm, vakker og sexy stemme hun besitter. Hun er mest kjent i Asia, men har nok i løpet av kvelden fått en rekke nye fans i Hamar. Publikum fikk høre et knippe egne låter, i tillegg til mer kjente sanger som ble tolket på en måte som gav en andektig stemning i Teatersalen i Hamar Gamle Rådhus. I ryggen hadde hun et fjellstøtt band med knallgode musikere som også fikk vist seg frem. Tempoet på denne konserten var rolig og avdempet, men kunne eksplodere i reale jazzgroove.

Read more from Anjazz

Feb 08/10:
KAMPENJAZZ, OSLO
Inger Marie and the band will give a concert at Kampenjazz Sunday 20th of February.. The concert will take place at Kampen Bistro, Brogata 21 in Oslo. Read more

Feb 02/10:
INGER MARIE GOES TO THAILAND AND KOREA

Inger Marie are happy to announce that she and her band finally will play in Thailand for the first time in march 2010.
Read more about Bangkok jazz festival

The first gig is at the Bangkok Jazz festival March 11th, and they will also perform at Ko Samui March 13th.
The visit to Thailand will be followed by two appearances on EBS Space TV in Korea.
EBS Space is one of the coolest music programs on Korean TV. It takes place at in a live house in front of an audience of a few hundred people. The show is recorded and broadcasted later to a nationwide audience. Unlike Love Letter, which tend to concentrate on mainstream K-pop acts, EBS Space is known for inviting a huge variety of acts from different genre to play on it. These can range from foreign jazz [Bob James] and pop [Jason Mraz] musicians to homegrown ska and metal acts

Inger Marie will be playing two 60 minutes shows on EBS Space on the 15th and 17th of March this year. . Come if you can get tickets!! More information available on the show’s website HERE
While she is in Seoul, she’ll be doing radio and magazine interviews too. So don’t be too surprised to hear Inger Marie on Korean radios in March.


Oct 1/09:
INGER MARIE AND ARIRANG IN KOREA
Inger Marie will participate in the project "Arirang" in Korea, in November this fall (2009).
The goal with the project is to establish Arirang as one of the worldwide kvown folk songs. The project is run by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea and the Korean Traditional Performing Arts Foundation.
Inger Marie has recorded her version of Arirang and the recording can be heard on the Arirang CD. Inger Marie will perform the song on Nov 10th, in Seoul. Read more here.

May 19/09:
ON THE COVER OF "JAZZ PEOPLE" IN KOREA


April 21/09:
BACK TO COTTON CLUB - TOKYO
Three evenings at Cotton Club are now confirmed.
June 30 - July 01 - July 02. I.M and her musicians, look forward to come back to Cotton club and do new conserts! There will be 2 shows pr. night.
"It will be nice to meet the audience, and also the excellent staff at Cotton club" - Inger Marie

April 16/09:
My Heart Would Have A Reason - reviews


"Full av velvære" - Dagens Næringsliv" "Anbefales" - Agderposten"
"Supersangeren" Dagbladet"

"Vakkert og inderlig" - NETTAVISEN
"Jazzballader" - BT
"Et glitrende, balladebasert album" JAZZ FRA SKOLETORGET



"Einfach zurücklehnen und genießen" - Monsters & Critics
"Die schönste Version von „I Can See Clearly Now“, die ich je gehört habe" - BRIGITTE.DE"
"..treffsicher und berührend" - MITTELDEUTSCHER RUNDFUNK

Bei "Letme entertainyou.de"

Apr 13/09:
Asian Tour 2009 - Thailand concerts cancelled

We are sorry to say that the three planned concerts in Thailand are cancelled due to the cirkumstances in Thailand. We hope the concerts will be rescheduled.
Apr 07/09:
Asian Tour 2009

Inger Marie Gundersen and the band return to Asia this spring and summer. There will be some concerts in Korea in May and in Japan in June.

May 14 Bankok Thailand (cancelled)
May 15 Thailand Culrural Center (cancelled)
May 16 Ko Samui, Thailand (cancelled)
 May 18 Chunnyun jazzclub, Seoul, Korea
May 19 LG Art Center, Seoul, Korea
May 20 TBA
May 21 TBA
June 30 Cotton Club, Tokyo, Japan
July 01 Cotton Club, Tokyo, Japan
July 02 Cotton Club, Tokyo, Japan

April 04/09:

March 18/09:
My Heart Would Have A Reason


i hope you will enjoy my new cd

love, Inger Marie

PRESS RELEASES HERE



PICTURES

Mar 29/09:
Live on TV2 March 27th
Inger Marie and the band played live at the popular "God Morgen Norge" -show March 27th. Watch the appearance here

Feb 21/09:
Release concert and celebration
Arendal March 19 th
The release of inger Marie´s third CD was celebrated in Arendal Kulturhus - Store Torungen March 19th. Arendal is Inger Marie´s home town in Norway.
The band was: Oscar Jansen, Ole Kelly Kvamme, Tom Rudi Torjussen, Øivind G. Stømer. Special guests: Jojje Wadenius og Tore Johansen and Rasmus Solem.

Feb 20/09:
CD ready for release
Inger Marie and the band recorded twelve songs in Musikkloftet studio (Oslo) and Stable studio during January 09. Producer was Jojje Wadenius
Musicians: Oscar Jansen, Tom Rudi Torjussen, Ole Kelly Kvamme og Øivind G. Stømer.
Mathias Eick (trumpet) and Jojje Wadenius (guitar)
Label: Sundance / Stunt records.
Distribuition in Norway: Musikklosen

Oct 17/08:
Big time in Korea - again
Inger Marie and the band played two concerts. 800 people showed up (sold out) to welcome the Norwegians at the Mapo Art Centre at Oct 10th. The day after they played a small, more exlusive concert at the Norwegian embassy. This was their third visit to Korea. These concerts was a part of the promotion campaign for the rerelease of "Make this moment".
Inger Marie did also meet the band "Alice in Neverland", and recorded one song for them for their next CD.

August 08:
NICE DUET IN ARENDAL
During the Canal Street Festval in Arendal 2008, Inger Marie performed together with Norwegian jazzsinger Hilde Hefte. They played together on the main stage in a 90 minutes show. It was a great experience for the artists and for the audience.

April 08:
WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW
The song "Will you still love me tomorrow" is the most popular Inger Marie-song so far. It was recorded in the NRK studio in Kristiansand in Norway June 5th/04. The song is also the far most downloaded Inger Marie song from I-tunes as well as other digital musicshops.
COMPILATIONS
"Will you still love me tomorrow" has been released on at least four compilation CDs. The latest was "Close to you", a compilation released on March 22nd/08 by UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP in Hong Kong

Mar 08:
TOKYO CONSERTS 2008 !
Inger Marie and the and played eight sold out concerts at Cotton Club in Tokyo in April 2008. READ MORE

Feb 08:
NICE CONCERT IN POLAND
February 26th/08 Inger Marie band performed in Wroclaw, Poland, in Music Theatre "Capitol". There were 600 people listening to the concert. The event was organized by
Radio RAM in Wroclaw, Poland. Thanks to Marianna Kasperczyk for the pictures.

Nov 07:
JETLEGGED IN DENMARK AND GERMANY
From Korea, Inger Marie, Ole Kelly and Oscar went to Copenhagen, Denmark. The whole band was together again, and they performed at Copenhagen Jazzhouse and in Aarhus. Thereafter they went to Germany for one show in Dortmund, Germany.
Thanks to Kurt Rade for pictures from Dortmund

Oct 07:
THREE DAYS TOUR IN KOREA
Inger Marie, Oscar and Ole Kelly played two concerts in Korea late October 07. The first one was at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Korea, during the Norway day celebration in Busan. Both Norwegian and Korean business people participated in the celebration. The trio also played at the Yellow Jackets jazz club in Seoul. Inger Marie says It was great to come back to Korea, two years after their first concert i Asia i 2005.

Aug 07:
KÅRE CONRADI SINGS DUET WITH INGER MARIE
Inger Marie performed at Oslo Jazz festival in August 2007 toghether with the norwegian actor and singer Kåre Conradi. They made a special night for a sold out Chat Noir, toghether with Bodil Niska quartet and Knut Borge. "
July 07:
CANAL STREET FESTIVAL IN ARENDAL
Inger Marie band with Ulf Wakenius performed at the Canal Street festival in Inger Marie´s hometown Arendal in July 2007. Canal Street is Norway’s biggest Jazz and Blues festival arranged again in 2008 for the 12th consecutive time. One of the festival’s trademarks is its use of special and unusual arenas, which compliment and contribute to the complete musical experience.
April 07:
EIGHT SOLD-OUT CONCERTS IN JAPAN
Inger Marie and the band visited Japan and Tokyo for the first time in April 2007. During the five-day-stay, the played eight (!) concerts at the Cotton Club in Tokyo.
Ulf Wakenius, the Swedish guitar virtuoso, played all the eight concerts in Tokyo with Inger Marie. Ulf Wakenius did also play on the "By Myself" CD. They all enjoyed the stay and they wish to thank all the people and everyone they met in Japan. Inger Marie do hope to come back to Japan soon. Video from Cotton Club, Japan
MySpace/Ulf Wakenius

Jan 07:
EUROPEAN RELEASE OF "BY MYSELF"
"By myself" was released in Denmark by Sundance /Stunt records Feb 1 st. The CD was again very well received. The CD was then released in other European countries.
Nov 06:
ASIAN RELEASE OF "BY MYSELF"
"By myself" was released in Japan, Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong, China among others Asian countries. "By Myself" reached no 1 on HMV jazzvocal chart in Japan Dec 6th.
"Where were you ?" is track no. 9 on the european version of "Bymyself". In Japan this new song was set to be the opening track of the CD. "Where were you ?" is written by Geir Jensen, a great norwegian composer from Arendal.
Oct 06:
NORWEGIAN RELEASE OF "BY MYSELF"
Inger Marie´s second CD was recorded and produced by Sundance/Stunt records in Denmark and Sweden. But the little independent label Kultur & spetakkel released the album in Norway. The release concert took place in Arendal kulturhus Oct15th, and a lot of guests showed up. TV was there too
Steinar Gregertsen and Espen Larsen (he is the composer of the song Make this moment from Inger Marie´s first CD) participated. So did the great Rasmus Solem as well as the people from Sundance records (Denmark).
"By Myself" was then very well reviewed in Norway
Read more in Norwegian here:
"By Myself" was no1 on the BareJazz chart for three months ! "Bare Jazz" is the most important Jazz store in Norway.
Inger Marie and the band played on Norwegian TV2 Oct 30th