Fenomenal Klubb went to Sea

Photo from Janne Tavares's Instagram @jannetavares

This last Saturday my band Jannes Fenomenala Orkester (Janne's Phenomenal Orchestra) performed at the season finale of our club: Fenomenal Klubb (Phenomenal Club (I didn't really need to translate that, did I?)). Here are some pictures from the evening  (if nothing is mentioned, all the photos are taken from our Facebook site):

Our lovely horn section

The amazing Conny Thimander, straight from the Royal Opera House in Stockholm

If you want to hear something mind-bogglingly beautiful listen to our version of E Lucevan Estelle (from the opera Tosca), with Conny Thimander singing, HERE. It's a rehearsal recording so the quality is not quite up to par, but it gives you an idea and it gives me the shivers. In the most fabulous way.

Full band

Horn Section; such lovely buoys (pun intended)

Yours truly, signing off!

Tussilago Farfara

A sure sign of spring in Sweden is that little baby-suns start popping up in ditches and along roads. Tiny little, really quite inconspicuous yellow flowers that almost resemble those pain-in-the-rear-weeds we all know and love (I'm speakin' dandelions, you know what I'm talkin' bout, hmm?). But since we experience such long winters in our neck of the woods, and such short, short days during winter that we almost feel enveloped in eternal darkness, those little darling sprinkles of sunshine that contrast against the melting spring soil are a song telling us we have been born again. Life comes back to us and that's why I feel so happy today; I saw my first Tussilago Farfara (Coltsfoot) of this season on my way from a work meeting. Such a little darling dash of sunshine, such a big, big message of rebirth.