Festa: Svavar Knútur (IS)

Festa: Svavar Knútur (IS)

Svavar Knutur is now coming for a short christmas-themed tour of Germany, playing a mix of his favorite Icelandic Christmas songs and songs from his new album Brot (the breaking), out on Dimma Records and Nordic Notes.
Svavar Knútur has seen his star rising steadily in the past couple of years. A troubadour of humble beginnings and rural upbringing, Svavar Knútur's music tells stories of love, tragedies, sadness and redemption in a harsh and hostile climate. His songs and vocal delivery always seem to strike a chord with his audiences, along with his decadently charming on stage persona, his concerts at times comprised of stories within stories within songs within songs. An accomplished storyteller, Svavar Knútur loves to bring his audiences on a journey of misery and redemption with both comic and tragic stops on the way.
A founding member of the Melodica festival organization, a series of international grass-roots songwriter festivals, Svavar Knútur has been a driving factor in both building bridges between international songwriter communities and strengthening the bonds of local folkies.
Svavar is the winner of the 2012 Berlin Troubadour competition, a yearly international singer/songwriter competition. His song, Ástarsaga úr fjöllunum (love story from the mountains), also propelled his band Hraun into the televised finals of the BBC’s musical competition “The next big thing.”
Svavar is currently touring to support his fourth solo album Brot (the breaking).

Some of svavar's Christmas songs can be heard at eitthvadfallegt.bandcamp.com