The Ida Olsonen Ensemble performs original music in Finnish, written by Ida Olsonen. Their focus lies in building up small universes within each piece. The music is a playful and experimental combination of folk and pop music, with some influences from jazz and vocal improvisation.  

Ida Olsonen is a Finnish singer, who is in Århus for a year of exchange studies. She’s doing her bachelor and masters exam at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and has also studied playing the baroque cello at the Helsinki Concervatory. Vocal music is her passion, and she considers her greatest merit to be the acclaimed vocal group Ensemble Norma, for which she is both singer and songwriter.

Kat Boelskov er dyster elektroakustisk pop med en experimenterende kant, med et par afstikkere ud i det mere glade og småskøre. I tvivl om hvilket label hun skulle give sin genre, spurgte Kat sine fans til råds. Svarene gjorde hende ikke klogere, da de rangerede fra ‘Euro-feminist emo’ og ‘Operatic folk-punk’ til ‘As if jazz and electro had a baby and named it Lilith Fair’. Hun skriver og producerer sin musik selv, og har et unikt lydunivers der ikke retter sig efter nogen regler. Sammenligninger fra fans og medier inkluderer bl.a. Sia, Portishead, Regina Spektor, Fever Ray, Bjørk, Lykke Li og Florence Welch.  Med sig på scenen har hun et one-woman-band bestående af Ida Exner. Hun synger kor og spiller violin/mundharpe/ukulele/lerfløjte/paperback, og hvad de nu ellers finder på hen ad vejen. http://www.katboelskov.com/