Hawkraftens Venner & Spillestedet Thy invite you to the Country Blues Festival.
A unique opportunity to experience this new artist on the Danish music scene.
With songs like “Den Sidste Vinterdag,” “Kridthuset,” “Stæreblind,” and “Mellem dig og mig,” Ninna Andreasen has, for the past 15 years, moved audiences to tears — sometimes from laughter, other times from tenderness.
The West Jutland singer-songwriter’s back catalogue is made to be played for audiences who appreciate catchy folk tunes and a fresh perspective on songwriting.
Clichés slide off Ninna Andreasen’s songs like water off a nano-coated jacket.
The classic love songs? She leaves those to someone else.
Instead of focusing on the 7–9% of life that’s about romantic relationships, Ninna turns her attention to the other 91–93%:
The child molester in her childhood town, the rage toward the tax fraudsters behind the dividend scandal, the complicated relationship between a son and his alcoholic mother, or the dream of one day becoming the village fool everyone gossips about.
Her storytelling — both in and between songs — draws from quirky and unconventional perspectives on life and the people living it.
Often with a healthy dose of social indignation.
Her background as a journalist and her interest in human destinies, the deceptive, the seductive, the deluded — and at times the downright ridiculous — is unmistakable.
“I’d rather write a song about quitting smoking and the pathetic contortions that come with it than a traditional love song. At their core, all my songs are about love, longing, sorrow, life, and death. But the criterion for whether they make it to the stage or onto an album is that they must offer a new perspective — one that no one else would’ve come up with. Sometimes, that also means the songs bite back a little,” says Ninna Andreasen.
That the songwriter has a knack for both skewering (and hugging) the world around her becomes most evident live. As Bands of Tomorrow wrote in a review:
“To me, Ninna Andreasen was somewhat reminiscent of a female Allan Olsen — a great storyteller and, at times, cheeky as hell.”
As a young soloist, she cut her musical teeth performing at bars in Esbjerg.
It toughened her up and gave her a sharp tongue — useful when calming down a rowdy crowd.
Since then, Ninna Andreasen has played across most of the country — from the westernmost point at the Fanø Vesterland festival to opening for Allan Olsen in Sæby up north and Johnny Madsen in Varde — with plenty of big and small stages in between.
