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Beautiful Stockholm at night, looking west towards Gamla Stan
http://www.svt.se/nationaldagen/ Above, the promo for today's SVT1 telecast of the National Day celebrations atSkansen in Stockholm, with the royal family in attendance, hosted by Anne Lundberg, starting at 20:00, 2 p.m. Eastern U.S./Canada. It will be telecast around the world via SVT Play at http://www.svtplay.se/video/1272214/6-6-20-00 and via Mobile with the SVT app.
Tonight's musical performances tonight will be by Mando Diao, Malena Ernman & Åsa Jinder, Jump the Gun, Pauline, Edith Backlund and Lina Hedlund.
One of the reasons that Sweden has its national day today is that it's the date of the coronation of the king Gustav Vasa, 1523. — @sweden / Linnea (@sweden) June 6, 2013
Gearing up for Saturday's wedding telecast via SVT Play between Princess Madeleine and Chris O'Neill. http://www.svtplay.se/video/1253415/prinsessbrollopetthat will be at 3 p.m. Miami time. Can't even imagine how beautiful this breathtakingly beautiful woman will look in her Valentino bridal dress come Saturday.
To almost everyone's amusement or consternation, depending upon your personality, less than four days from her wedding, PrincessMadeleine got stopped by attentive Stockholm Police in central Stockholm for driving a vehicle in the prohibited Bus Lane. (If you didn't know, downtown Stockholm also has a congestion tax.)
Expressen TV YouTube Channel: Prinsessan Madeleine i nya trafiksynder. Körde bil på bussfil i centrala Stockholm. Uploaded June 6, 2013. http://youtu.be/b7d7mAmEUPU She claimed to the police -and a Royal Court spokesman later claimed as well- that she had a special permit that allowed her to do so. http://tv.aftonbladet.se/webbtv/nyheter/live/article13428.ab Further investigation by the news media determined fairly conclusively that while she had the permit, it specifically allows vehicles to use that restricted lane only in connection with state purposes, i.e. rolling motorcades for visiting heads of state and diplomats to get them from Point A to point B, NOT for running pre-wedding errands. In my opinion, she'd be foolish to continue to press the matter and should simply pay the fine. Last October's much-discussed and imitated engagement/förlovning announcement by Princess Madeleine and Chris O'Neill Förlovning / Engagement from Kungahuset on Vimeo. has now turned into golden opportunities for some, including very successful low-fare airline Norwegian Air and its founder and CEO, Bjørn Kjos, in one of their newest videos As regular readers of this blog know by now, Norwegian begins non-stop flights between Fort Lauderdale and Oslo in late November, and between Fort Lauderdale and Stockholm the first week of December, the latter of which may very well include me on-board that first week, as I was busy checking-out some some possible plans over this past weekend for being there for a while before Christmas.
Video that provides an overview of what she was up to that day... Robyn gästade Musikhjälpen- Skanskan.se video Reporter: Ralph Bretzer http://bcove.me/thhffpck
Separate complete videos of Robyn singing her two songs are below, but here's the most thorough article on her appearance I've found but it's in Swedish, so use your Google Translate if you don't talar svensk.
Skansen.se Många ville se Robyn i glasburen på torget Av Karsten Bringmark 18 DECEMBER 19.24 2010-12-18 19:24:00
MALMÖ. – Skitkul att vara här. Och det tyckte också många Malmöbor som följde Robyn i Musikhjälpens glasbur på Gustav Adolfs torg.
Jublet dränkte all julmusik efter hennes sång.
Fler hundra flockades framför glasburen när Robyn blev intervjuad, och smickrad av programvärdarna; hennes senaste visit i Musikhjälpen är det enskilt mest visade klippet.
David Benvenuto YouTube Channel: Robyn - With Every Heartbeat - LIVE Musikhjälpen 2010. Malmö, Sweden. Uploaded August 23, 2013 http://youtu.be/IrLzKJKjSCo
Max Holmberg YouTube Channel: Robyn - Hang With Me - LIVE Musikhjälpen 2010. Malmö, Sweden. Uploaded December 18, 2010. http://youtu.be/St4cojiZ3bo
My last post on Robyn was from July 28th of this year titledRoad-tripping across the U.K in an RV with a Swedish pop star is fun... Robyn - Hang With Me (Official Video)http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/road-tripping-across-uk-in-rv-with.html Love this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3a2qoyONVA Back on November 22nd, the Miami Herald ran a short piece on Robyn on their PEOPLE page in the first section of the newspaper, under the header, Robyn earns Swede revenge. Really. And as if that wasn't dopey enough, it used the words "teeny-bop star" in the very first sentence.
I snapped this shot of it that day at the Panera Bread here in Hallandale Beach, mostly to show those of you overseas or at least out of HB, how truly lame the newspaper is when it tries to appear hip. Or, actually, tries anything these days. #Fail ------- For more information: @musikhjalpen https://twitter.com/musikhjalpen webpage:www.Musikhjälpen.se If you need to catch up on some moments from the festival... http://sverigesradio.se/sida/default.aspx?programid=3946
One of the best YouTube Channels for music out there, with an ear for what makes really good Scandinavian music POP is this one by Damian, which I subscribe to and urge you to check out: http://www.youtube.com/user/SwedishStereo
Robyn's official record company website is http://www.konichiwa.se ---------- Updated Wednesday December 22, 2010 I usually try NOT to go back to individual posts days after-after-the-fact, except in rare cases where there's an inadvertent spelling mistake I catch, a dead link someone tells me about, or some mistaken information that might prove troublesome, but I make an exception now and then when I think it's appropriate and today is such a day.
Today, it's specifically because of something that I found out about thru a friend that I think might add to what I wrote above. Since I initially posted above, a fashion-forward friend in Sweden who read what I wrote -but who wasn't at Musikhjälpen-has sent me an email with a link to an interesting blog that is the handiwork of a really personable, talented -and very cute!- woman in Malmö, one of the world's great university towns, who is a combination student, Ford model, blogger and dancer, and did I mention, DJ? I think I was looking for someone like her the whole time I was in Bloomington at IU, that is, if blogging technology has existed then. IF only I had had a blog back then! Besides, how can you not love a woman who writes at the end of her blog profile: "Pluggar konst på vardagarna och dansar om nätterna. Life is good!" Lina Sandberg is this blogger's name and her blog isici: http://lina.metromode.se/ Lina is one of the more popular bloggers on the very popular Metromode.se blog network, which tends to focus on women's fashion and related subjects, a lifestyle and demographic that advertisers desperately want to be simpatico with, whether in the U.S. or Europe. Well, anyway, Lina actually was at the Robyn concert in Malmö for a bit, and has some photos of her day that are worth checking out. In fact, she even played DJ for a bit before Rebecca & Fiona did their thing. I hope to have more about the wildly-popular Rebecca & Fiona in an upcoming blog post, but for now, here's the URL for the post Lina wrote about this past weekend: http://lina.metromode.se/2010/12/19/2210/
