From today - december 1st - until december 25 you will hear one Christmas song a day from our Country & Eastern Christmas album. December 1st is also the date for our annual Christmas party at Fasching.   Read more »

 The Country & Eastern Christmas Party will be celebrated at Fasching on thursday december 1st for the fifth year. BE FIVE will play concerts at Glenn Miller Café on december 12-13. Bellnäs, Berger and Klinghagen is making music for the Bible in Gothenburg   Read more »

 Bengt "Beche" Berger is writing the music for Niklas Rådström's stage version of the Bible, playing together with Stefan Bellnäs and Göran Klinghagen from Beches Brew. The five and a half hour play, covering both testaments, will be directed by Stefan Metz at the Stadsteatern in Gothenburg. Rehearsals start on tuesday october 11 and the opening will be in mid february.   Read more »

 These are the beauties that we release on monday. They have already recieved acclaim and more will surely follow. The release party is held in Stockholm   Read more »

 Country & Eastern artistic advisor Bengt "Beche" Berger recieved the Jan Johansson award for 2011 on september 11 at a ceremony in Söderhamn, Jan Johansson's hometown.   Read more »

 BEFIVE will play three concerts in Stockholm. Two new albums will be released at the end of september, one with Per Tjernberg and one more Dhrupad album with Z.M. Dagar and Z.F. Dagar, this time a morning raga, Miyan Ki Todi. Country & Eastern artistic director Bengt Berger will recieve the Jan Johansson stipend in mid september.   Read more »

 Winner of the prestigious Artist of the Year title at the Swedish Folk- and World Music Festival in Gothenburg on april 16 was Country & Eastern artist HACI TEKBILEK!   Read more »

 On may 23 Country & Eastern took a step in a new direction with the release of Elias Krantz album Night Ice. This is Al Dente post-rock-indie-instrumental-krautrock-neojazz-alternative-electronic-psychedelic-experimental-pop music.   Read more »

  "För sin absoluta och kompromisslösa kärlek till stundens spontana musikaliska uttryck och sin vilja till hårt arbete för att förbereda den." Göran plays tonight at Glenn Miller and tomorrow at the Country & Eastern Brunch concert at Mosebacke. Here are …   Read more »

 Lyckå Chamber Music Festival in Karlskrona july 6-10 will have three concerts w Niklas Rådström and Berger Knutsson Spering, two of them also with Camerata Lyckensis and soloists w Berth Nilsson performing: Don Giovanni Crossover. Then in the later part of july we do two interesting concerts at Glenn Miller Café in Stockholm.   Read more »

 Niklas Rådström is collaborating once more with the Berger Knutsson Spering trio in three concerts at Lyckå Chamber Music Festival in july, one with the four of us and two in cooperation with Camerata Lyckensis in the Mozart project A Don Giovanni Crossover - I Stengästens Skugga.   Read more »

 C&E has stopped the brunch concerts. The gap between what the restaurant wants and what the music needs is too big. No hard feelings.   Read more »

  This is obviously the awards season. The Folk- and World Music Gala will be held in Gothenburg on april 18 and in the category Artist of the Year Haci Tekbilek AND Jonas Knutsson have been nominated.   Read more »

 As you might know, we are in possession of the last existing copies of the Amigo 900-series with fantastic hindustani recordings of great masters Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, Pandit Ram Narain, Pandit Nikhil Bannerjee, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and K. Sridhar.   Read more »

 Our latest album, Jonas Knutsson's Blåslåtar, was released in november 2010 and within a month it was nominated for a Swedish Grammy for best folk music 2011. After studying swedish folk music from various traditional sources for more than 20 years besides all his other music making we are happy to release this forceful statement on our mostly fiddle bases swedish traditional music from the saxophonic perspective.   Read more »