Catch singer/activist Robyn today LIVE in-person or via streaming at the Swedish Embassy in DC at 1:30 p.m. with Amb. @OlofsdotterK as part of #Teklafestival's #Tekladialogue via @KTHuniversity @SweInstitute, @SwedeninUSA., with @natalbrzezinski as moderator. @robynkonichiwa

Catch Robyn today in-person or via streaming today at the Swedish Embassy in DC LIVE at 1:30 p.m. with Amb. @OlofsdotterK  as part of #Teklafestival's #Tekladialogue via @KTHuniversity @SweInstitute, @SwedeninUSA., with @natalbrzezinski as moderator


IF you are in the #WashingtonDC area Saturday, please swing by @SwedeninUSA -and bring yr family- and come say 'Hej' to #Sweden's Amb to USA @OlofsdotterK  and singer/activist @robynkonichiwa talking abt #tech & #GirlsWhoCode
It'll be... #fun!!!

The Swedish Embassy is located in Georgetown, right next to Washington Harbour, at 2900 K Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20007

But if you can't be in D.C., you can watch the proceedings LIVE at 1:30 p.m. at 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG7wdvdpWMI

IF U are in #WashingtonDC area Saturday, pls swing by @SwedeninUSA -and bring yr family- and come say 'Hej' to #Sweden's Amb to USA @OlofsdotterK 🇸🇪& singer/activist🎤 @robynkonichiwa talking abt #tech & #GirlsWhoCode 🌎
It'll be... #fun! 😉https://t.co/N9ajEpeU0b @karliekloss

— HallandaleBeachBlog (@hbbtruth) March 7, 2019

Monica Enqvist‏ @MonicaEnqvist

Monica Enqvist Retweeted Robyn

On Saturday @robynkonichiwa will join us in #HouseofSweden to highlight the importance of more girls/women in #tech. The international launch of the #Teklafestival #Tekladialogue is presented by @KTHuniversity @SweInstitute and @SwedeninUSA See it here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pG7wdvdpWMI …

So happy you will join us today @natalbrzezinski and moderate this important dialogue. Join us online, and see it here at 1.30 pm eastern time https://t.co/9sj7YATcFb #Tekladialogue #SwedeninUSA #tech https://t.co/LSGYIyH7W9

— Monica Enqvist (@MonicaEnqvist) March 9, 2019

Wow this happened in #Newyork after 🇸🇪 @robynkonichiwa concert yesterday. Today she is playing in #WashingtonDC and I am going. 😄Before that she is attending a panel about women in tech #Tekladialogue in #HouseofSweden @SwedeninUSA - see it here:  https://t.co/9sj7YATcFb https://t.co/N2G3qLByRe

— Monica Enqvist (@MonicaEnqvist) March 9, 2019

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I’m overwhelmed. Someone just posted this video and I can’t believe the love in this subway station. Thank you New York ♥️

A post shared by robynkonichiwa (@robynkonichiwa) on Mar 8, 2019 at 10:31pm PST

Women do not participate in tech anyway near the levels that males are. Who’s responsible for closing the gender-gap? How can we create an inclusive sector? #Tekladialogue @SwedeninUSA with @robynkonichiwa @natalbrzezinski @dataKateR @Lesliewcruz March9 https://t.co/UaSsfRil9t pic.twitter.com/dqeEq7YyV1

— Svenska institutet (@SweInstitute) March 5, 2019

Svenska institutet‏ @SweInstitute

#Sweden and @robynkonichiwa brings tech to teenage girls worldwide, beginning in Washington, D.C. on International Women’s Day. The international launch of the #Teklafestival #Tekladialogue is presented by @KTHuniversity @SweInstitute and @SwedeninUSA.

Join us March 9 in #HouseofSweden https://t.co/OcRRfF22he https://t.co/23G8TOMg6f

— Embassy of Sweden US (@SwedeninUSA) February 26, 2019

@LindaZachrison @MonicaEnqvist Say hej to Robyn for me tomorrow!
I'll try to see her on August 17th in #STHLM! 

Still my favorite @robynkonichiwa video: "Hang With Me"  :-) https://t.co/5gXljZwAVO

— HallandaleBeachBlog (@hbbtruth) March 8, 2019

Robyn is playing SMASH 2019 at Sjöhistoriska in Stockholm on Saturday Aug. 17th, which everyone tells me is simply an amazing place at night -especially when you have the Midnight Sun!

You better believe I'm doing everything possible to be there along with some talented (and influential) friends in the Swedish music industry. But many of them are also scheduled to be on vacation then, on the other hand, it's Robyn's only concert in Sweden in 2019, so... what's going to happen? Stay tuned!

You better believe I'm doing everything possible to be there along with some talented (and influential) friends in the Swedish music industry. But many of them are also scheduled to be on vacation then...

On the other hand, it's Robyn's only concert in Sweden in 2019, so... what's going to happen? 

Stay tuned!

Tour dates: https://rbn.lnk.to/rbnliveTw 

www.Robyn.com

Robyn NEVER disappoints! Amazing new music video (and Behind-the-Scenes video) of Robyn's #UShouldKnowBetter feat. Snoop Dogg is a pop culture delight; @robynkonichiwa, @decida, #PernillaPhilip, #2faced1

Robyn YouTube Channel video: Behind The Scenes: Robyn feat. Snoop Dogg - U Should Know Better. The behind-the-scenes for #UShouldKnowBetter gets into great detail about all aspects of the collaboration of Robyn's Konichiwa Records and Decida Wahlberg's 2faced1. Uploaded June 22, 2013. http://youtu.be/DZnClsOnuuo


Robyn's behind-the-scenes videos are always entertaining, the cherry on top -delicious pop culture confections of  subtext, theme and fun.


The swedish film that Robyn and Decida reference towards the end regarding "kickers" is Stockholmsnatt, but it had the opposite effect on her than it did for many other teens living in Sweden then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholmsnatt

The behind the scenes 4 #UShouldKnowBetter feat. Tyler, Pernilla, @decida & some of the thoughts we had making it. http://t.co/HJr43tbYTp
— Robyn (@robynkonichiwa) June 23, 2013

Bizarro @robynkonichiwa & @SnoopDogg go out for a night on the town in Robyn's awesome new vid, #UShouldKnowBetter http://t.co/3g2BDvZhIK
— VEVO (@VEVO) June 21, 2013

RobynVEVO Channel video: Robyn performing U Should Know Better ft. Snoop Dogg. Uploaded June 21, 2013. http://youtu.be/iVDbl2buP0Q

See also:

SPIN Magazine
Robyn Stylist Decida Talks Platform Timberlands, Jody Watley, and Stockholm

By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

January 9 2013, 11:11 AM ET

http://www.spin.com/blogs/robyn-decida-stylist-choreographer-timberlands-jody-watley-stockholm/

The Guardian
Robyn: unchained melodies
She was a teen pop star who stepped off the conveyor belt. 
Now Robyn Carlsson is singing about fembots, working with Snoop Dogg and dabbling in the avant garde
By Alexis Petridis, 16 June 2010 16.31 EDT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jun/16/robyn-interview

Decida Wahlberg's blog: http://2faced1.com/decidastyle
@decida - https://twitter.com/decida

Robyn - @robynkonichiwa, https://twitter.com/robynkonichiw
http://www.robyn.com/

Hearing "Calleth You Cometh I" by The Ark was the musical highlight of last Saturday's Melodifestivalen heat in Mälmo -and it was just the intro music for Ulrik Munther!; 2013 Fourth Heat was most-boring heat in years; @SVTMello

The Ark World YouTube Channel: The Ark - Calleth You Cometh I.

Uploaded March 5, 2010. http://youtu.be/9HfKgoOJn9M

Hia80 YouTube Channel video: The Ark - Calleth You Cometh I (LIVE at Allsång på Skansen 2003, Stockholm) Uploaded May 28, 2008. http://youtu.be/u5PNmHCvZg8


In my music-oriented post of this past Monday, titled, Sweet, sweet music to our ears: the 'Nashville' soundtrack album; 'Nashville' star Hayden Panettiere (Juliette Barnes) sings "Fame" and "Consider Me"; Clare Bowen (Scarlett O'Connor) and Sam Palladio (Gunnar Scott) sing "If I Didn't Know Better," and cause a ripple to turn into a wave; #ABCNashville, @haydenpanettier
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/sweet-sweet-music-to-our-ears-nashville.html
I mentioned that I'd spent a good part of Saturday listening to the sweet sounds of the "Nashville" soundtrack album from the ABC-TV show, but that in between, around two o'clock, I hopped onto my computer and rode the Internet to Sweden and our friends at SVT Play.

Then, from thousands of miles away, I watched LIVE the fourth heat of this year's Melodifestivalen in Mälmo to send Sweden's representative to the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest.  http://www.eurovision.tv/page/malmo-2013

Since Sweden won last year in Azerbaijan with Loreen, Sweden will be hosting this year's competition in May. In fact, in the very arena where last Saturday's competition was held.

I also mentioned that it was probably the worst individual heat I'd seen in years, and that I even felt obliged at times to mute the volume because I was so NOT feeling it! :-(

What I didn't mention then was that the only time where I actually stood up and paid attention was when they introduced teen singer Ulrik Munther.
And that's only because the music intro they used to fire-up the crowd as he walked across the catwalk and onto the stage -at 0:45:33 here,
http://www.svt.se/melodifestivalen/se-program/23-2-20-00?autostart=true 
was The Ark's "Calleth You Cometh I," only one of the most melodic and punchy pop song of the past 25 years, and one of my Swedish favorites.

Literally, a song I have hummed to myself while stuck in traffic more times than I can count.
Which is why I have two versions of the song above today for you to see.

The second video was uploaded by Hia80, known here on the blog as "Sofia from Umeå," who was the savvy person we all have to thank for recording those four simply amazing videos of Robyn performing LIVE in concert  in Skellefteå back on July 1, 2011, which I posted here a week later on July 9th, a post which received a ton of hits from all around the world:
Wow! Sofia in Umeå -a.k.a. Hia80- has four must-see home videos of Robyn performing at Skellefteå 2011 last Friday
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/wow-sofia-in-umea-aka-hia80-has-four.html

Sofia's YouTubeChannel is at http://www.youtube.com/user/Hia80
Check it out and subscribe!

YouTube fame straight from the heart of Uppsala: 'Cottage Cheese Girls' channel Robyn's "Tell Your Girlfriend" with a clever hook

finga161 video: from SVT's Gomorron Sverige (Long version of song)

http://youtu.be/FaBC4DuXv9k

YouTube fame straight from the heart of Uppsala: 'Cottage Cheese Girls' channel Robyn's "Tell Your Girlfriend" with a clever hook

SVT video: Kesotjejerna gör succé (Cottage Cheese Girls Succeed)

SVT Uppland reporter Bernt Hermerle describes the tale of how one ad hoc decision -to turn on a video-cam- during an otherwise boring Wednesday night led to YouTube fame and international media attention for AMANDA WIKSTRÖM, PETRA BROHÄLL and EBBA LOVISA ANDERSSON.

http://svt.se/2.126356/1.2580454/KESOTJEJERNA_GOR_SUCCE

I originally saw them sing on Thursday when I found myself on SVT's website looking for something else entirely.

Not finding what I was looking for, I clicked on some of the recent news videos, in this case, Wednesday's edition of Sverige Idag (Sweden Today).

After watching it for a bit I started fast-forwarding and eventually got to the last segment.

And then at the 22:04 mark, I saw something that I was completely unprepared for.

For about 45 seconds I was dumb-struck

http://svtplay.se/v/2581075/sverige_idag/26_10?cb,a1366518,1,f,-1/pb,a1366516,1,f,-1/pl,v,,2582372/sb,p149528,1,f,-1

Three talented and clever women from an Uppsala band called Erato had turned their boredom one night into a YouTube phenomena... a phenomena that I had heard nothing about, which is strange.

I mean, how many Swedish YouTube sensations can there be at any one time, right? Especially, a capella?

On Friday morning, I saw that Damian over at his very popular blog, SwedishStereo, had also posted something about the girls which I completely agree with: http://swedishstereo.blogspot.com/2011/10/erato-call-your-girlfriend.html

I'd actually received his post Thursday, but literally as I pulled his post up, I got a surprise phone call from someone with a great political tip I need to follow-up on, so... this post is at least 24 hours late.

The original caught LIVE...

Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend - Live at Skellefteå 2011, July 1, 2011.

http://youtu.be/DKyRhHXRrsE

Robyn's official website: http://www.robyn.com/

Robyn performance above was recorded at a concert in northern Sweden by a Robyn fan whom I've referred to here on the blog simply as "Sofia from Umeå," and her very interesting YouTubeChannel is at http://www.youtube.com/user/Hia80

Check it out for yourself and subscribe!

The Secret Life of Robyn: A Super 8 film by Jim Goldberg that "Captures the Swedish Pop Star's Inner World"; filmed at Bonnaroo 2011

The Secret Life of Robyn on Nowness.com.

http://www.nowness.com/day/2011/8/3/1569/the-secret-life-of-robyn

Related articles at:

http://www.nowness.com/day/2011/8/3/the-secret-life-of-robyn

and http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150245131425095

Robyn - Backstage with Fuse (Bonnaroo 2011). Interviewed by Juliya Chernetsky, June 2011.

http://youtu.be/hJOiMHMGod4

To see my previous 7 posts on Swedish singer Robyn, which includes MANY videos of her that you have not seen before -since they aren't on YouTube- please use the Search box function in the upper-left corner of the blog and insert "Robyn"

See also:

http://www.robyn.com/

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

Wow! Sofia in Umeå -a.k.a. Hia80- has four must-see home videos of Robyn performing at Skellefteå 2011 last Friday

Robyn - With every heartbeat - LIVE at Skellefteå 2011, July 1, 2011

http://youtu.be/yOv3WnktAQw

Robyn, Sveriges popdrottning! (Robyn, Sweden's pop queen!)

Now THAT'S charisma!

Judging by the evidence, Sofia from up in Umeå looks to have not only scored some very good seats for Robyn's show last Friday in Stieg Larsson's neck of the woods in Skellefteå -near the front of the stage, no less- but she also kindly thought of all the Robyn fans out there in the blogosphere who craved a new video fix of this energetic dynamo, and Sofia has delivered big time.
All the customary moves we've come to expect from Robyn were there, too: the windmill arms, the shadow-boxing, the moon walking...

Sofia has very good audio and video quality, especially considering that she was clearly standing in an enthusiastic crowd of people going nuts.

Sofia's video reminds me of the amazing videos of the crowds at the Paramore concerts in STKHM that I alluded to last October here on the blog, when I compared and contrasted music lovers' lightning-like ability to use technology and share information/video thru YouTube, while the Miami Herald continued insulting their readers by playing second-rate Pony Express, and was NOT even able to get the score or game story for the first game of the 2010 World Series in the Broward edition of the paper the day after the game.
This, even though The New York Times that was printed in Fort Lauderdale and sold at the same places in Broward as the Herald had two pages of games coverage, plus photos.

That November 27th, 2010 post of mine was titled, How a video of Paramore in Stockholm and Razorlight at the Cuckoo Club, London -Friday night- proves the Miami Herald is too damn slow. Iceberg dead ahead!

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-video-of-paramore-in-stockholm.html

My previous six posts on Robyn the past year are right here in chronological order:

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Robyn

Obviously, what she shot is slightly different than the film quality that you all got used to in my very popular post a few weeks back on Robyn, here, with SVT's amazing video of Robyn's concert in Copenhagen last year and the fascinating and amusing behind-the-scenes documentary at her concert in Stockholm, but it's still damn impressive nonetheless.

Now if only everyone did as good a job as Sofia of not only keeping their cool in the heat of the moment at a Robyn concert and keeping the focus on her -and largely avoiding everyone's hands up in the air!- and NOT blurting out things that get captured on film and distract from what's going on.

Great job, Sofia!

Two big thumbs up from South Florida! :-)

By the way, Sofia is also the very same person who three years ago uploaded the video of Frida Öhrn on SVT's Så ska det låta singing her version of the Dolly Parton classic "Jolene" that just knocked me out. http://youtu.be/aPYBGa_PsLo

Until Friday night when I was preparing this post, I'd completely forgotten that she was the one whose quick thinking was appreciated by so many, including yours truly, SO many miles away.

Robyn - Hang with me - Live at Skellefteå 2011, July 1, 2011

http://youtu.be/jAkgHY7Qcso

Robyn - Indestructible - Live at Skellefteå 2011, July 1, 2011

http://youtu.be/rkyEuy8wfgA

Robyn - Call your girlfriend - Live at Skellefteå 2011, July 1, 2011

http://youtu.be/DKyRhHXRrsE

Robyn's official website: http://www.robyn.com/

Sofia's YouTubeChannel is at http://www.youtube.com/user/Hia80

Check it out and subscribe!

Three helpings of fascinating popstar Robyn: LIVE concert footage, behind-the-scenes and interview -some of it even in Engelska!

SVT video: Klubbland #11 Robyn.
Concert performances and behind-the-scenes with Robyn and her band at the Falconer Salen in Copenhagen, 2010.
http://svtplay.se/v/2224575/klubbland/klubbland__11_robyn

In this 22-minute program, that also has some spoken English conversations and English subtitles, Robyn sings complete versions of Fembot, Dancing On My Own, and With Every Heartbeat.
Just like it says on the Klubbland hemsida, "Gå på konsert varje vecka utan att lämna datorn" - "Go to a concert every week without leaving your computer."

Originally broadcast on SVT November 5, 2010, this video is available on SVT Play until Thursday May 5th, 2011.

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SVT video: -Robyn sings LIVE versions of With Every Heartbeat, and Be Mine at the 2008 Fredspriskonserten (Nobel Peace Prize Concert), Oslo, Norway, backed by a symphony orchestra, December 2008.
http://youtu.be/pkBwlOFM9D0

Wow! That's what crazy amounts of sheer talent performs like at a big-time event: pitch-perfect!

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http://svtplay.se/t/155215/robyn_-_live_i_stockholm
SVT video: Robyn - live i Stockholm (Live in Stockholm)

This December 15th, 2010 concert before 3000 fans at Berns Hotel in Stockholm was the climax of Robyn's 2010 U.S. and European tour, and was rebroadcast on SVT April 15th, 2011.
It's available for watching on the SVT Play website until Sunday May 15th, 2011 and is just under 57 minutes long.

Song order: Fembot, Dancing On My Own, We Dance to the Beat, and The Girl & The Robot

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http://svtplay.se/v/2391666/musik_special/robyn
SVT video: Robyn -Music Special (documentary)

Petra Markgren Wangler follows Robyn's career as teen idol until her amazing worldwide success of today and talks to her about her life as a popular artist and has lots of great behind-the-scenes footage of her tour.

Originally broadcast on SVT April 15, 2011, it's available for watching on the SVT Play website until Monday May 16th, 2011, and is just over 58 minutes long.

Featured songs include: Dancing on my own, With every heartbeat, and The girl and the robot.

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For more info, see Robyn's official website: http://www.robyn.com/

http://www.robynbodytalkin.com/

http://www.konichiwa.se

Her YouTube profile is at:
http://www.youtube.com/artist?a=GxdCwVVULXcVqb6b55ODLpd-r_cAtb0u&feature=artistob#

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

www.svt.se/klubbland

Robyn - Be Mine! (Live From The Cherrytree House)

Robyn - Be Mine! (Live From The Cherrytree House)
http://youtu.be/OCtvP0pdPoA


Slight change in original plans, as the promised triple-dose of Robyn performing will be posted here on Monday, owing to lots and lots of frustrating HTML problems with the last post.

It appeared fine in Preview, but kept layering text over photos and graphics -and vice-versa- no matter how many times I went into EDIT to fix it.
After lots and lots of frustration, I finally copied the whole thing it over and simply reposted it as a new separate post, deleting the original version that appeared online, but I'm mentally exhausted, so... until then, here's something of Robyn's that I haven't posted yet to tide you over until I have the time to post all three separate Robyn-related posts in a row.

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

http://www.robyn.com/

More Robyn performances at The Cherrytree House at
http://www.cherrytreerecords.com/CherrytreeHouse

http://www.cherrytreerecords.com/

Road-tripping across the U.K in an RV with a Swedish pop star is fun... Robyn - Hang With Me (Official Video); @robynkonichiwa

RobynVEVO: Robyn - Hang With Me. Uploaded July 28, 2010. http://youtu.be/-3a2qoyONVA

Road-tripping across the U.K in an RV with a Swedish pop star is fun...
Robyn - Hang With Me (Official Video)
Just wondrous!
The single comes out in the U.S. the first week of September.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQh7sbU00CM

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

http://www.konichiwa.se

Robyn, @robynkonichiwa https://twitter.com/robynkonichiwa

*Speaking of Robyns, if anyone out there in the blogosphere knows the whereabouts of the beautiful and beguiling Robyn Hunter, originally from Ft. Smith Arkansas, The Washington School of Ballet in Washington D.C., volunteered at Crisis Hotlines in suburban Maryland, who worked for Perseus at the Army-Navy Building in Washington, D.C., and who is possessed of an absolutely amazing voice and sense of humor, please let me know at the email address above.* I will be eternally grateful.


The last time I can remember a song this catchy that I liked that also featured a carnival ride in the video was the late Kirsty MacColl in "New England."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fwtFSEovro



Last July I sent out this email to some friends around the country who'd known me for quite some time, and I thought since Kirsty's name popped into my head again, I'd include an excerpt here:

...after watching an old video of her singing "New England" that a friend sent a link to me of yesterday, completely out-of-the-blue. His reason for sending it?
Turns out that last week, he'd run into a former girlfriend of mine -with a fabulous voice- on a flight from D.C. back to Chicago, who used to sing/play that song all-the-time.

And a few hours later, after that trip to the 1980's via the South Beach Hoosier Time Machine, when I first turned on my computer after watching Wimbledon, this awful story over at the beach just jumped off the Sun-Sentinel's website.

Divers hit by speeding boat off Hollywood Beach 
BY JOSE PAGLIERY, The Miami Herald
2:51 PM EDT, July 5, 2009

A boat traveling dangerously close to the Hollywood Beach shore slammed into two divers Sunday morning before gunning its engines and disappearing.
A third diver was not injured....

Both victims, a father and son, were quickly transported to hospitals nearby, according to Hollywood Fire Rescue.

Someone needs to really make an example of these people on the boat who tried to mow down some innocent people today, and thought they could get away with it.

Lately, it seems like every other time I'm at the beach, especially in Hallandale Beach near the iconic Water Tower, whether reading the newspaper or doing some writing, esp. when the water is flat, I see some near-misses that make me anxious as people on the boats completely ignore the lifeguard's whistles, just taunting them.
One of these days...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_MacColl

http://www.justiceforkirsty.org/news.htm

Like you really need me to tell you that Mexico is NOT our friend!