Göteborgs Remfabrik

Last Sunday Dolce trio had the honor to play at an award ceremony at Göteborgs Remfabrik, an old textile factory that was in use during the first half of the 20th century and is now a museum and a memory from that past age. The society in charge of preserving the building and present it to the public got a very prestigious national award: "Årets industriminne" (the industrial heritage of the year) and we where there with our portable piano and played background music which was much appreciated by the invited members of the society who attended. You can read more about Göteborgs Remfabrik here.

But there is more to the story than that. When Henrik was still in high school, about six years ago, he was involved in film production together with a bunch of friends, and the biggest project they ever did, a two-hour-long Gangsters drama-thriller which took place in early 20th century Chicago and shows a desperate police-man dealing with the Italian gangsters of the city, used Remfabriken as a primary location for scenes in the police headquarters and gangsters hide-outs. The movie was a great success at the time for Henrik and his friend Ted Jönsson (script-director-editor-lead star), and besides being producer and holding the camera, Henrik also wrote music for the score to the picture. He recorded it with an orchestra put together of other friends playing musical instruments, and there was a big gala premiere in of the movie in 2007 with around 100 guests.
Anyway, since Henrik had a connection to Remfabriken the board thought it a good idea to have the trio play some of the music as an entertainment number at the award ceremony, so Dolce presented a specially arranged "Gangsters medley" of some of the melodies from the movie!

We really enjoyed playing there and it was a special feeling for Henrik, returning, quite literally speaking, to the scene of the crime some five years later!