This book was released in September 2023, and it sums up much of what Nedland Kultur’s Sigbjørn Nedland has been working with throughout his whole life. The history of music, its basic importance to people and societies, how it has been spread and communicated across the planet, and how it has developed from […]

2022 2007 Nedland Kultur was contacted by The Margareta of Romania Royal Foundation with a request to be the Norwegian partner in an EU-supported culture exchange project in the fields of music and visual art. This led to a most inspiring project with several visits and events during 2022. Romanian musicans’ group meeting with Punkt […]

I             One of Norway’s most famous writers, Jens Bjørneboe, was born i Kristiansand in 1920. He was a poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, journalist, and  one of the most important public voices in Norwegian society from the 1950s to the 70s. He took his own life in 1976, but his […]

1984 – 1987 George Harrison, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Annie Lennox, David Bowie…almost every music star was once or twice a guest on the radio show Pandora’s Juke Box. During its more than 12 years on Norwegian radio NRK, it stayed one of the most popular shows in the country. It transformed Saturday […]

1997 – Present The radio show “Jungeltelegrafen” on Norwegian national radio NRK first went on the air on March 8th, 1997, and since then the one hour show has been broadcast twice or three times a week, every week. It swiftly became the leading show for global music on Norwegian radio, and has upheld a […]

2011 – 2012 Together with the media and culture organisation Ulfah Arts in Birminghan, UK, Nedland Kultur organised an exchange of young media people from England, with backgrounds from various parts of the world. Focusing on radio production and presentation, several representatives of multicultural youth in England got to spend spend 4 weeks at NRK […]

2004 – 2011 — In 2002 planning started for a collaboration between several partners to start an exchange program for young journalists from Ethiopia, Tanzania and Norway. The resulting project involved Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communication, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and the Media Women’s Associations of Ethiopia and Tanzania. Later Uganda and Kenya, through the […]

2010 In 2010 Nedland Kultur received a request from The Norwegian Embassy in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania: “Would you like to bring an artist or a band from Norway to perform at our annual pre-Christmas party?” Many embassies have this tradition of inviting guests – Tanzanians from governmental or other organisations, diplomats from other countries, […]

1997 – 2005 Ever since his first visit to Tanzania in 1989, Sigbjørn Nedland had been trying to help musicians establish a studio in Dar Es Salaam, as there were no quality studios at all in the city. In 1997, with the help of the aid organisation Strømme Foundation and the Norwegian Agency for Development […]

1993 – 1994 This album was released the year that Alf Prøysen would have been 80. Sadly, he died already in 1970, only 56 years of age, but he lives on as one of the best and most loved singers, authors, songwriters and storytellers Norway has ever fostered. Therefore it was a big challenge to […]