Nils Petter Molvær (NO)

The Norwegian jazz-electronica trumpetist Nils Petter Molvær is coming to Tårup to open the festival with a spectacular night performance! At 00:15 am 31 August Molvær will play a solo outdoor concert under the blue super moon* as part of the opening ceremony.

Nils Petter Molvær knows how to capture both the polar ice caps and the burning desert sand, his trumpet can portray surging crowds just as well as total solitude, that loses itself but always finds the way back again. Molvaer has his own very individual sound, influenced as much by the poetry of Scandinavian nature as by electronic calculation, and last but not least by colleagues like Miles Davis and Jon Hassell. But more than anything else, Molvaer has himself. Listening to him play, it’s easy to forget that his instrument is a trumpet.

• Blue moon is a second full moon in a calendar month.

• Super moon is when the moon appears particularly large in the sky owing to the coincidence of its closest approach to the earth with a full moon.