Friday night in Stockholm: Head's up for friends of the Blog living in Sthlm area :) - music is on the agenda!; @jjakerman

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Friday night in Stockholm: Head's up for Friends of the Blog living in Sthlm area  :) - music is on the agenda!; @jjakerman

Friday night at 22:30 at the Scandic Grand Central, Kungsgatan 70, Jennifer Ackerman and Lorenzo Jansson Kilman will be performing an acoustic set. There's no cover charge, so please come by to listen -and be supportive!
http://www.scandichotels.com/Hotels/Countries/Sweden/Stockholm/Hotels/Grand-Central/


Here's a pic of the show poster: http://twitter.com/jjakerman/status/267688428144033792/photo/1
while here's a photo of them performing back in May, on a previous trip to Sweden by JA:  
http://werun.se/la/emiliacarpinisan/2012/05/17/lorenzo-rockin-draquila-med-jennifer-akerman/

Tack!

Yes, I know that the Scandic Grand  Central is right near where I'll be staying in a few weeks and yes, I DO wish that they were slated to be filmed as part of the Stockholm Boat Sessions
http://www.stockholmboatsessions.se/, http://www.youtube.com/user/jerrygbg

Just talking out loud here, but how great would it be for there to be a video of Jennifer and Lorenzo performing like this one of Sea Lion that I posted back on March 18th, in a post titled, Take a seat aboard the ferry and listen to what real talent sounds like: Sea Lion - "America, why does the heart cry" @ Stockholm Boat Sessions
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/take-seat-aboard-ferry-and-listen-to.html

I love this concept!

Jerry Boman You Tube Channel video: Sea Lion - America why does the heart cry @ Stockholm Boat Sessions. Uploaded December 13, 2011. http://youtu.be/Ca9BXSago60

Jennifer's popular LA-based blog, LA Life - http://blogg.veckorevyn.com/lalife/
Jennifer's Twitter page - @jjakerman - http://twitter.com/jjakerman/

Florrie, our favorite British 'Next Big Thing,' is back in the studio recording -next Thursday she's flying to L.A. to work on her next project

Florrie - Begging Me (2011). Directed by Price James.

http://youtu.be/Pj8122XxqDA

"I won't lose the battle, not in love, not in war, cause I got something to fight for..."

Florrie Arnold, our favorite British 'Next Big Thing,' is back in the studio: reading, writing & recording. Hurrah!

The dynamic singer/drummer/guitar-player from Bristol is shown above performing "Begging Me," the infectious song that I've mentioned previously, here, which in these dog days of sweltering August, is STILL the number-one song I hum to myself in the car while stuck in South Florida traffic gridlock, of which we have so much, giving me so many more chances than a normal American to croon or hum it.

I've avoided a few chances this summer to mention what's new with Florrie because it hasn't really risen to the point of something worthwhile visually I could share, per se.

But early this morning, around 2 a.m., I received her latest blog post and it contained the news that I and her other fans have been waiting for, now that her six song Experiments EP has been out for a while. (Songs can STILL be listened to FREE on her website, bought on ITunes.)

http://florrie.com/home/2011/8/17/florrie-back-in-the-studio.html

After another few days of being in the studio, and then a photo shoot for the cover of her next album, she's flying out to L.A. next Thursday to work with some talented folks who are aiming to help her on her next project and, hopefully, get her the sort of attention she deserves on this side of the Atlantic.

Florrie - I Took A Little Something (2011). Directed by Justin Wu.

http://youtu.be/azrKHpCwvm0

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention two things that I've thought of a lot the past few months, starting with when I first watched Robyn perform and dazzle on ABC-TV's Jimmy Kimmel Live show, which I wrote about on April 14th in a post I titled

Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend & Dancing on My Own - ABC-TV's Jimmy Kimmel Live; 13-Year-Old Girls Ruining American Idol Vote -and U.S. film industry!

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/robyn-call-your-girlfriend-dancing-on.html

Florrie would absolutely KILL on that show, esp. dressed as she is in the video in Dolce & Gabbana.

She'd positively send some of the audience into orbit and leave the rest of them slack-jawed.

The second thing is, IF Florrie has the time and gets the chance -are you listening out there?- since I know that she will be back in L.A. from Skåne by then, could someone from her team please ring up Jennifer Åkerman and arrange to meet Jen somewhere so that she can show Florrie around the town she now knows so well?

It would do everyone involved some good, not least of all, music fans.

A couple of helpful introductions here and there, interspersed with a few hours devoted to bouncing creative ideas off of one another, some shared laughs and a few drinks over dinner to see if there's something these two talented songbirds could do together in the future...

I'd kill to hear a few duets from them somewhere on Sunset... table for four, up near the front if it's alright with you.

Just thinking out loud...

But just because I'm thinking out loud here, doesn't mean that it's still not a VERY GOOD idea!

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My first post on Florrie was back on March 5th, 2011, titled, Say hello to Florrie - She's musically ship-shape in Bristol fashion, always equipped with a beat & melody -and has a voice & face you won't forget, http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/say-hello-to-florrie-shes-musically.html

http://florrie.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/florriemusic

http://www.nme.com/artists/florrie

Speaking of catchy summer songs... Bella Tech - Summer Song; Jennifer Akerman @jjakerman

Bella Tech - Summer Song

http://youtu.be/0Q5x7NfbhP0

A very, very catchy song from the Los Angeles-based band that features lead vocals by Jennifer Åkerman.

When I listen to it, I can think of about a dozen different ways that this song or snippets of it could be perfectly integrated into an ad campaign; as an intro into an all-night radio talk show; in a film, as a song heard on the radio by a young female protagonist driving by herself thru the interstate roads of the American West at night to surprise someone -causing either introspection or maybe even a narrative flashback...

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bella-Tech/209598585732036

http://www.myspace.com/bella.tech

http://twitter.com/#!/BellaTech

2014 Update:

Jennifer's popular blog about her adventures in LA as a model, singer, blogger and keen observer of the American scene was formerly at http://blogg.veckorevyn.com/lalife/

but is now at http://jenniferakerman.chic.se/
@jjakerman https://twitter.com/jjakerman

Listen to Jennifer here:

http://soundcloud.com/jennifer-akerman

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http://www.youtube.com/user/skruttan60