A living room concert is a concert where the guests have the opportunity to listen to live music in a living room in a private home. Living room concerts are becoming quite popular in many countries, but having cultural evenings with storytelling and singing in private homes is, in fact, an age old tradition in the Faroe Islands. The Faroese people call it having a “kv\u00f8ldseta”, which can be translated to having ‘an evening sitting’.<\/p>\n
In recent years these events have been organized in a more systematic and professional manner. Elin was the first to introduce this new concept in the Faroe Islands with the F’LJ\u00d3\u00d0 KV\u00d8LDSETUR – i.e. living room concerts and literary evenings – starting in January 2012.<\/p>\n
Then came the HOYMA concerts in the village of G\u00f8ta followed by the HEIMA concerts in the village of N\u00f3lsoy, and most recently, the H\u00daSAGONGD concerts in the village of Sandav\u00e1gur and with more and more villages following with their own living room concerts.<\/p>\n
All these events take place once a year each with concerts in many different houses during the course of a day, while F’LJ\u00d3\u00d0 KV\u00d8LDSETUR living room concerts take place in one particular home many times throughout the year.<\/p>\n
Here is a YouTube video which gives an impression of the atmosphere at a F’LJ\u00d3\u00d0 KV\u00d8LDSETUR living room concert, where Elin Brimheim Heinesen performs:
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