YAMsession 2026

Award-winning Finnish songwriter Mirja Klippel creates heartfelt Nordic folk songs rooted in personal experience and nature. Her debut EP earned a Danish Music Award Folk; she has toured Europe, the North Atlantic and Danish schools with LMS.

An opera for ages 0–3 inspired by Suzy Lee’s The Wave. Voices, instruments, movement and visual imagery explore a child’s first encounter with the sea in an immersive dialogue between performers and young audiences.

Music, drawing and animation create a dreamlike shared territory where mountain creatures, humans, animals and predators inhabit intertwined cycles. Acoustic timbres, strings, winds, keyboards and beats loop with live animation and improvisation.

Two kitchen aides, obsessed with rhythm, melody and opera, turn utensils into instruments: an oven grill becomes a harp and a pan becomes a bass while Mozart, Puccini, Rossini and Bizet meet rap, house and world music.

A violinist opens notebooks from imaginary travels, blending Caucasian melodies, Bulgarian rhythms, wild costumes and improbable sound objects into a spectacular concert: cinema for the ears.

A five-piece Norwegian ensemble gives rare traditional tunes modern arrangements shaped by rock, folk-metal and jazz. After more than 100 shows in 14 countries, Gangar bring energy, audience interaction, dancing and virtuosic musicianship.

Award-winning Danish folk and roots musicians combine Scandinavian, English and Celtic traditions. In a circle amid the audience, four players create close-up music and tell stories through their instruments.

An energetic Danish-American western swing trio combines banjo, violin, guitar, nimble fingers and three-part singing. Superhits and original songs meet a warm, captivating concert honed through years touring Danish schools.

Italian brothers I Sordi move from witty electro-funk to acoustic instruments including didgeridoo, gamelan and launeddas. Their pyrotechnical live acts carry music everywhere, from early EPs through the SHOCKINI LP.