Dinner reception at University of Gothenburg

The staff of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Gothenburg held a dinner reception last Thursday to end the study year, and Dolce Trio was invited to play. It's the end of term here in Sweden and students are rarely seen in the school corridors this time of year. The university officially closes for summer holidays around mid June but most courses ended way earlier. 

It's always nice to play in an academic environment. The building "Humanisten" (named after the field of subjects, the humanities) share the same campus area as Dolce Trio's old music college - the Academy of Music and Drama. 

We had a great night and the professors seemed to enjoy our music. It's safe to say Dolce Trio haven't performed as frequently (6 nights a week) since being on the NCL Epic in the Mediterranean a few years ago, and I've missed playing our repertoire. Every time u turn the page it's like meeting and "old friend". Some more dear than others of course haha. 

Dolce Trio at 'Humanisten'

Dolce Trio wishes every one of you a great start of the summer holidays!

Wedding gig at Käringön

Last saturday Dolce had the summer's first wedding gig.
Therese and Lars got married at Käringön, a small but beautiful island on the west coast (the best coast as we call it) 1,5h drive north of Göteborg.
This time we were reinforced with the double bass player Mikael Klaening, resulting in Dolce Quartet. A lower register instrument was actually very good for our sound, adding much more depth and orchestral quality.

 

 

Also, Mikael got the gig and needed more musicians with ready-made arranged pop/light-mingle-music in a classical setting. Voilà, Dolce per definition.



The day started very early, we had to do the complex logistics of getting cars to pick up the musicians, the electric piano and double bass in different parts of the city, and then drive up to the ferry that goes to Käringön. We had good margins so the stress and panic was at minimum. A lot of gear:

 

 

We arrived in time and could rehearse our two songs in the Church with two singers that we should perform together with. "Miracle" and "I'm yours now," two very Lovely Swedish songs we had arranged for this occation. It went very well, it felt really great and quite powerful - one singer played guitar as well so we were a total of five instruments and two voices! We also played Peterson-Berger's "Entrance in the summer meadow," a Swedish summer-classical classic, which suits us very well to play actually.

 

 

After the wedding we set up the electric piano at the porch and played one set of light background music for the toast before the dinner. The weather was beautiful and it felt really good!

Also, the runner-up in last year's Swedish TV chef competition Sveriges Mästerkock, "Carl" did the catering at this place. We were starstruck.

 

After the music, we packed up just in time to catch the 6 pm ferry from the island, and drive back to Göteborg. A full day's work but a great experience!