Ice Music Festival 20 years! Tickets on sale.
We will celebrate by doing a unique festival at Greenland in March 2025.
2025 will be our 20th year of merging music, art and climate science. We are excited to announce that our successful Greenland Sessions will return to Ilulissat to celebrate 20 years of the Ice Music Festival.
All instruments are made out of natural frozen ice from Ilulissat and the nearby glacier.
The festival itself is a tribute to Nature.
A set of outdoor concerts and art installations combined with a science camp will take place in Ilulissat from 6th to 9th of March 2025. They will be performed with a view of the stunning UNESCO world heritage site, Ilulissat Icefjord, on the west coast of Greenland
Ilulissat Icefjord is located 250km north of the Arctic Circle, with the mighty Sermeq Kujalleq glacier and its massive ice bergs. Sermeq Kujalleq is one of the fastest moving glaciers in the World, contributing to more than 10% of the total mass loss from the Greenland Icecap.
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Stage is designed and made by Petter Bergerud with help from local volunteers.
Ice instruments are made by Petter Bergerud and Terje Isungset.
The sound production is by Mathias Grønsdal.
Kerim Nisancioglu, Bo Albrechtsen, Karl Sandgreen and Anaise Magali Bretones are all in the team.
Ice Music is supported by Arts Council Norway.
Ice Music Festival is supported by
University of Bergen, Avannaata Kommunia, Ilulissat Icefjord center, NAPA and Norges Forskningsråd.
Program:
March 6. 21.00. Ice Only. A meditative tribute to the nature.
Terje Isungset will perform a 35 minute meditation concert playing on ice only. He will mainly use the the magic ice marimba (iceofone). Listen to the recording from Ilulissat in 2024: https://open.spotify.com/album/3IFK32b494bK3rpM19qUMi?si=anMk8gj4SLeVKToTUUP7f
March 7. 21.00. Terje Isungset & Gabriela Garrubo
Gabriela Garrubo: vocals, ice percussion & ice guitar. Terje Isungset: ice horn, iceofone, ice drums, ice percussion. Brazil meets Norway meets Greenland! Gabriela will sing some of the "classic" Icemusic songs composed by Terje, but as Gabriela is partly from Brazil they will even do some Brazilian rhythms on ice. There will also be parts of "ice only" meditations. Let the Nature talk. Playlist of icemusic: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Wg2RuJcFhdGD7XAdCWeEP?si=50610dc38e644f27
March 8. 16.00. Family Concert
Ice Music & Science. Suitable for families. Kerim Nisancioglu: science. Terje Isungset: ice instruments. Gabriela Garrubo: voice and ice instruments. A nice mix of Nature music and Nature science. An interactive session where audiences are free to ask or to contribute. Nature Music! Ice Music!
March 9. 24.00. Midnight Concert
We celebrate nature by performing with natures elements under the moon. Gabriela Garrubo: vocals, ice percussion and ice guitar. Terje Isungset: ice horn, iceofone, ice drums, ice percussion. Greenlandic artists to be announced in addition. Gabriela Garrubo: vocals, ice percussion & ice guitar. Terje Isungset: ice horn, iceofone, ice drums, ice percussion. Brazil meets Norway meets Greenland! Gabriela will sing some of the "classic" Icemusic songs composed by Terje, but as Gabriela is partly from Brazil they will even do some Brazilian rhythms on ice. There will also be parts of "ice only". let the Nature talk. Playlist of icemusic: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Wg2RuJcFhdGD7XAdCWeEP?si=50610dc38e644f27
Photos by Terje Isungset