Songleikr - Support: Marcus Friedeberg
Healing frontwoman Maria Franz with a mix of Scandinavian folklore, ritual music, and Nordic poetry, accompanied by percussion, string instruments, flutes, and multi-part singing.
Songleikr is the passion project of Healing frontwoman Maria Franz. Now that the band Healing is taking a creative break, Maria Franz is fully devoted to Songleikr - a project that has existed since 2016. At the end of 2025, the new album "Fuglefolk" was released - featuring musical guests like Myrkur and Magnus Børmark (Gåte). Selected concerts across Europe will follow in early 2026.
Songleikr is a project born out of deep love for Nordic folk music. It breathes new life into old Nordic songs and ballads through intense, atmospheric arrangements. Stylistically, Songleikr navigates between folk, ritual music, and Nordic poetry - archaic, reduced, and deeply touching. With their mix of traditional Scandinavian folklore, captivating multi-part singing, supported by a folk foundation of percussion and strings, Songleikr not only captivates fans of Nordic sounds but also fits wonderfully into the ever-expanding cosmos of acts like Healing, Wardruna, Skáld, Sowulo, or Nytt Land.
Songleikr will perform with the following lineup: Maria Franz - vocals, strings, Ingrid Galadriel Aune Nilsen - vocals, Kasia Sikora-Black - vocals, flutes, Petter Olai - percussion, Espen Wensaas - strings.
As support, Marcus Friedeberg opens the evening. The singer/songwriter is well-known far beyond the regional borders of the North as a solo artist, as well as with his bands Off Limits and Pangea. Just last year, he released his fifth album "Hunters Moon." His concerts are a musical journey with stops in Scandinavia, Ireland, the Middle East, and indigenous America. With his skilled use of the loop station, he merges different instruments into complex arrangements. Besides his voice and twelve-string guitar, he also uses folk instruments like didgeridoo, bones, Irish flutes, and various percussion instruments such as tabla, darbuka, or frame drum.
Doors open at 20:00.