2008 —- In April 2008 the Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and Minister of the Environment Erik Solheim came on an official visit to Tanzania. With the success of the concert organised during the visit to Tanzania of the Crown Prince of Norway in mind, the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Tanzania asked Nedland Kultur to create another […]

2000 – 2001 When Nordic Black Theatre decided they wanted to stage a play about Bob Marley, they asked Nedland Kultur’s Sigbjørn Nedland to write the play for them. The result was a musical theatre play that did not give a biographical and historical account of the life of Bob Marely, but that described Mareley’s presence […]

2004 In April, 2004, Crown Prince Haakon Magnus of Norway was on an official visit to Tanzania. The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Dar Es Salaam asked Nedland Kultur to provide a musical performance during the visit. Their original idea was to bring a Norwegian band to play a concert in Tanzania, that the Crown Prince would visit. Nedland Kultur, however, suggested […]

————- As the activities of Nedland Kultur have become known in wider circles, invitations from various institutions and organisations have come to stage events, create special concerts or to participate at festivals. Normally, Nedland Kultur will want to do more than just bring an artist to an event. The ambition is to make something unique, […]

2015 – 2016 Budapest Ritmo Festival wanted to host a workshop where Hungarian Rom musicians would collaborate with Sami musicians. Being partners in a Norwegian – Hungarian project supported by the EEA/EU, they approached Nedland Kultur and asked them to be the Norwegian partner of the project. Nedland Kultur agreed to plan and organise a […]

1994 – 1995 Music Channel was a project uniting Israeli, Palestinian and Norwegian musicians in one group. In 1994, the secret “Oslo Channel”, that laid the foundations for a peace process between Palestinians and Israelis. sparked the idea of establishing a musical collaboration between the same three nationalities that had been involved in the political negotiations […]

Bringing people together At the core of Nedland Kultur’s activities lies the ambition of uniting and bringing together people from different cultural areas, from different walks of life, from different countries, even from different continents. It is the firm belief of Nedland Kultur that there is always more that unite people of different cultural and/or […]

2003 ——— ——– ——– Paul Weeden was an American gutarist who played with Wes Montgomery, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt, Jimi Hendrix, Coleman Hawkins and many more. He was also guitarist in The Count Basie Orchestra. In 1971 he moved to Norway, to become a key figure in jazz music in the country. In 2011 he […]

2009 – 2010 It had been a long time ambition for Nedland Kultur to bring Mari Boine Band to Zanzibar. Having done several earlier collaboration projects with Mari Boine and her musicians, producer Sigbjørn Nedland was eager to introduce them to Zanzibari music, and not least to introduce Zanzibar to Mari Boines arctic music, which, […]

2007 – 2008 In 2007 Nedland Kultur was approached by the committee responsible for the 100 years celebrations in 2008 of Olav H. Hauge, one of Norway’s most central poets in the last half of the 20th century. The committee was planning several events during 2008 to focus on Hauge’s life and work, and they had decided to ask Nedland Kultur’s Sigbjørn Nedland […]