| 15.12.06 |
The new live recorded CD and DVD “A Classic Rock show” will be released in the American marked the 20th January. It includes live recordings of Finnero and friends performing originals and covers from different styles and genres.
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| 11.12.06 |
| If you want to see Finnero live”on a stage” somewhere near you contact us at : contact@finnero.com Scott the booking agent in Las Vegas are promoting the band right now and the bookings for January –March will be listed here soon! |
| 02.12.06 |
We are proud and honoured to announce that the Norwegian Guitar hero Tore Moren has confirmed to be a member of the band and will be working together with Finnero in the US!! Tore is well known for his brilliant work as the sideman of Jorn (Jørn Lande) and as the guitar player of Carnivora, Arcturus and Rain.
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| 27.11.06 |
The first round of the American dream is over, we have decided to continue the work from our Norwegian base and will be represented in the US by Scott French wich is our American Manager and Booking agent.
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| 21.10.06 |
Finnero TV concept and production “Musikalsk oase” ended at the second place at “The Award” for the best TV program series produced at a local Norwegian TV station 2005, the series witch was produced and recorded by the Finnero crew included 12 programs with 10 different bands and artists.
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| 27.09.06 |
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Finnero leaves for Las Vegas USA, today Finnero entered the plane bound for Las Vegas where he will put together an American line up of his band.
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| 25.09.06 |
A fantastic evening with top soloists and great fun from the stage is what the press and audience says about the first Nordic Music Fest ever. Hopefully the Nordic Hotels will continue the plans of a yearly event like this.
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| 10.08.06 |
The first Nordic Music Fest are planned to be organized the 22nd September among the soloists are Jan Høiland, Håvard Lund, Mario Santoccono, Knut Erik Sundquist, Erika Toth, Eli Kristin Hagen and Finnero.
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| 12.07.06 |
TV Haalogaland and Finnero is nominated for “The Award” for the best TV program series produced at a local Norwegian TV station in 2005, the series is called “Musikalsk oase” .
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| 25.06.06 |
The Norwegian leg of the “Rapture of the deep tour” is history, we will keep all the good memories in our harts for the rest of our life and once again thaaaannnnkkkk yyyyoooouuuu!!! Every body of the Deep Purple crew and thanks to our crew, friends and fans for doing the only right thing to do, came to the shows!!
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| 20.06.06 |
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Finnero is Deep Purple`s host in North Norway and consider him self as the happiest man in the “Arctic” this days. Here he is together with Steve Morse, Don Airey and Ian Gillan taking a walk together at Tromsø shoreline.
Finneros daybook notes are printed in the 2 issue of the Norwegian magazine TUNES
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| 15.05.06 |
Finnero Received the Harstad Sparebank`s “Culture Award 2005” for his work in the local culture life, especially for his contributions among the younger generations of Rock musicians.
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| 10.05.06 - New Band pictures are taken by photograph: Øyvind Arvola. |
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| 25.04.06 |
Finnero is invited to be the special guest of Deep Purples arctic leg of the rapture of the deep tour 2.
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Finnero is honoured and happy to announce that we finally are sharing the same stage as our musically fathers.
This is a milestone in our career.
More info: www.deep-purple.com
Norwegian pressrelease
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| 14.02.06 |
New CD released.
Read the rewievs:
www.heavymetal.no
www.rockofnorway.no
www.rockeweb.com
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| 10.09.05 |
A gigant of rock!
The concert in Harstad Kulturhus was a huge success and filled three full houses. The dice ended at 6.
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| 22.08.05 |
The agreements with the final set of sponsors is now falling into place. The sponsors will be presented here within a few days.
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| 21.08.05 |
The TV Haalogaland program series “Musikalsk oase” is now on the air and the feedback so far has been good. Soon it will be possible to see a sample from the program here.
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| 20.08.05 |
A lot of things are happening these days. The shooting of the “Street Legal” video has now started. The video will be published here in two weeks.
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| 18.08.05 |
The first part of the portrait interview with Finn-Ero in the local newspaper, “Harstad i Dag” (www.harstadidag.no), has now been printed and published. The article tells the story of Finn-Ero’s childhood and youth. The second part of the interview will be printed in the newspaper’s next issue.
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| 17.08.05 |
Finn-Ero appeared with the Kalabalik show at today’s opening for the coming year’s students at
Harstad
University
College
(www.hih.no). He performed three songs – “The final countdown”, “Lost Fantasies” and “Paranoid”.
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| 16.08.05 |
The American Car Club of Norway has decided to use the recently written song, “Street Legal”, as their official national street car song. They’ve also ordered a music video. The shooting of the video will take place in downtown Harstad the 25th august.
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| 05.08.05 |
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The Estonian October dates are now confirmed for the 43rd Week of 2005
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| Week 43 |
| 25/10 |
Café Amigo |
Tallinn
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Acoustic / Electric Classic Rock |
| 26/10 |
Café Amigo |
Tallinn
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Acoustic / Electric Classic Rock |
| 27/10 |
Püssirohukelder |
Tartu |
In the spirit of Classic Rock show |
| 28/10 |
Scotland Yard |
Tallinn
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Acoustic |
| 29/10 |
Alexandri Puub |
Pernü |
In the spirit of Classic Rock show |
| Week 44 |
| 1/11 |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
| 2/11 |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
| 3/11 |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
| 4/11 |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
| 5/11 |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
| 6/11 |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
| Week 45 |
| 7/11 |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
| 8/11 |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
| 9/11 |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
| 10/11 |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
| 11/11 |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
| 12/11 |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
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31.07.05 |
There will be arranged an after party at Nordic Hall after the Finnero show at Harstad Culture House, where the great king of blues from
Austin
,
Texas
, “OMAR and the Howlers” will play steamy
Texas
blues. Some friends of Finnero, the Harstad based band LOST, will open the after party 22.30. We believe this will be one hell of a party :-) !!!!
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| 11.07.05 |
The tickets for the Finnero-show are still selling good and the extra show will be sold out as well!!
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| 25.06.05 |
The Finnero-Show at Harstad Culture House are SOLD OUT!!!! EXTRA show tickets in sale from next Monday :-)!!!
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| 14.06.05 |
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The list of guest artists for the Finnero show is now ready and confirmed:
Elements, The Magic Strings, Kalabalik, Stine Mari Langstrand, Petter Simonsen, Eli Kristin Hagen, Lars Erik Gudim, Mirjam Kjerstad, Edvard Sunquist, Omar Dykes, Fjelldal Schools children’s choir, and more…
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| 01.05.05 |
Finn-Ero and his son, Tom-Ero, produces and manages a series of ten TV programs for Haalogaland TV. The series is called “Musikalsk oase” and will introduce ten different artists and bands from the Harstad area. The shooting of the programs will take place at TV Haalogaland’s studio during May 2005.
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| 18.04.05 |
“Heavybalik” became a huge success! One SOLD OUT show and also one sold out extra show. Newspaper headlines like “Insane Heavy” and 5 of 6 points at the dice made this a
LOT
of fun!!
Read more...
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| 09.04.05 |
This leg of the “Faust” adventure is history, the whole ensemble is tired and happy. Conclusion: This is one of the best experiences ever!!
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| 03.04.05 |
A new concept will have its world premier the 15th April: The Balkan inspired orchestra “Kalabalik” featuring Finn-Ero. There will be performed old heavy classics like e.g. “Paranoid”, “The Final Countdown”, “Stairway to heaven”, “Smoke on The Water”, “Black Dog”, “Back in Black”, “Holly Diver” and “Jump” – off course with a smile on their face. Look out!!!!
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| 14.03.05 |
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A successful world premiere for the FAUST metal opera lead to headlines in BBC Radio, French press and Norwegian press.
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| 02.03.05 Tour dates for Faust Metal-opera 2005 |
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| 10/3 |
Festiviteten |
Kristiansund |
Pre premiere/ Press-Show |
| 11/3 |
Festiviteten |
Kristiansund |
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| 12/3 |
Festiviteten |
Kristiansund |
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| 14/3 |
Festiviteten |
Kristiansund |
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| 15/3 |
Festiviteten |
Kristiansund |
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| 16/3 |
Festiviteten |
Kristiansund |
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| 17/3 |
Rauma Storhall |
Åndalsnes |
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| 18/3 |
Sunndal Kulturhus |
Sunndal |
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| 29/3 |
Surnadal Kulturhus |
Surnadal |
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| 30/3 |
Surnadal Kulturhus |
Surnadal |
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| 31/3 |
Bjørnsonhuset |
Molde |
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Bjørnsonhuset |
Molde |
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Ørsta Kulturhus |
Ørsta |
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| 5/4 |
Ørsta Kulturhus |
Ørsta |
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Sykkylven Storhall |
Sykkylven |
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| 7/4 |
Parken Kulturhus |
Aalesund |
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Parken Kulturhus |
Aalesund |
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Meet Finnero’s metal friends and companions from the Faust opera:
www.pica-fierce.com , “The Devil” himself Nils K. Rue at www.pagansmind.com, his loving sister at www.hagenhagen.no and the opera in Kristiansund at www.oik.no
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| December 6th |
Finn-Ero is now in the record studio together with Sid Ringsby, Rune Engen, Thomas N. Olsen. They are producing the new EP, with the aim of launching it in February.
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| November 30th |
Finn-Ero will performe a solo role in world’s first metal opera. He is both humble and happy when he is signing the contract with Kristiansund Opera. The opera “Faust” is a drama written by Goethe. It has during time fascinated many people with its eternal, but also relevant, themes like abuse of power, improper use of material, double set of moral and lost love. More information about the play can be found on the internet; www.oik.no. Finn-Ero will play the role of Valentine, which is one of five solo roles in this opera. There will be 30 performances from February 7th to April 8th.
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| November 15th |
The new EP will be used in Bangkok in connection with further dialogues with the EMP Group about a possible introduction in Asia. Meetings with them have been scheduled to the 5th week of 2005.
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| November 11th |
Finn-Ero needs to finish some new songs. The decision has been made – an EP holding four songs will be launched in February.
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| October 29th |
The time schedule is adjusted. Because of the participation in “Faust”, Finn-Ero will not be able to complete the record project until the summer of 2005.
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| October 26th |
An enquiry is received from the Kristiansund Opera, regarding to play a solo role in world’s first metal opera, “Faust”. Is he going to play the Devil or Valentine?
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| 20/10 |
Tour dates for 2005 are soon official, if you want to see Finnero somewhere near you please contact us!!
Planed schedule week Nr :
22-24 North-South Norway
24 South Sweden
25 Denmark
26 Estonia
27 Latvia/Lithuania
28 Finland
29 Sweden/Norway
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| 15/10 |
Finnero will appear on the Peace Festival of the North at soltun Friday 22/10
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| 10/10 |
Big tour review in Harstad Tidende written by the culture editor, Who followed the band on their Estonia tour.
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| 7/10 |
The band are back in the “studio kaos” for pre-producing their next album.
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| 30/9 |
| Kick ASS Rudi is back on his feet again, thank god his alive and kicking :-) |
| 20/9 |
We would like to thank Everybody we met during our stay in Estonia this time especially all the local promoters and ENE for a great job!! WE want to see each and everyone next time.
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| 13/9 |
We are truly happy for our warmth welcome to Estonia Alexandri Puub YOU guys ROCKS!!!
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| 11/9 |
Finnero had a bad start on their arrival to Estonia some of their luggage was missing and some parts of the drum kit was had to be rushed to stage by some nice young guy from Pernü THANK YOU!!!
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| 26/8 |
One more show in Estonia are confirmed!! There will be a show at Rockstars Pub Tallinn the 15/9. What happened to the day off??
Tourdates:
11/9 Alexandri Puub In the spirit of Classic Rock show
13/9 Café Amigo Acoustic / Electric Classic Rock
14/9 Café Amigo Acoustic / Electric Classic Rock
15/9 Rockstars Pub In the spirit of Classic Rock show
16/9 Scotland Yard Acoustic
17/9 Guitar safari In the spirit of Classic Rock show
18/9 Püssirohukelder In the spirit of Classic Rock show
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| 23/8 |
We are happy and proud to confirm that it is the young and talented Gøran Gimsøy who will be the replacement for our drummer Rudi until his illness desapear.
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| 18/8 |
Finnero had a nice stay in Bangkok and are happy to tell that we are working together with the EMP group co. ltd. for further discussions regarding the next CD and Touring Far east in the near future.
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| 16/8 |
The Estonian dates are now ready to confirm and the band are exited to visit old and new friends and fans in Estonia:
11/9 Alexandri Puub In the spirit of Classic Rock show
13/9 Café Amigo Acoustic / Electric Classic Rock
14/9 Café Amigo Acoustic / Electric Classic Rock
16/9 Scotland Yard Acoustic
17/9 Guitar safari In the spirit of Classic Rock show
18/9 Püssirohukelder In the spirit of Classic Rock show
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Here you will find all information about the latest news, cd-releases, upcomming conserts, etc...
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New baltic dates.
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Rudi - our superdrummer, have unfourtnatly catched a serious desease and will not be playing with the band the next months.
His replasement will soon be official.
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| 20. June |
The Baltic’s will be revisited in the period of 10-18 September Pernu, Tartu and Tallinn dates will soon be confirmed.
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| 18. June |
Finnero will appear live at several live-clubs in Bangkok with local musicians in the period of 9-16 august, this is the first step to introduce Finnero for the Asian market.
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| 10. June |
Finnero will appear as special guest at “the Showtime” concert Mosjøen sat. 17 July
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| 8. June |
Finnero thanks everybody they met at the tour and sends their best wishes to each and everyone, see you all soon, some pictures are at the pictures link.
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| 5. June |
The song writing-sessions are confirmed started for the next CD( working title are In the spirit of Classic Rock), and the search for a producer are close to be finished
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| Finnero Tour 2004 |
The tour has been very successfull so far. Becouse of the journalist strike in Norway they have not been able to get many reviews, but the independent danish website: www.nasse.dk under the title:
26/05-04 - Rock’n’faneme for godt! gives Finnero a great review on one of his conserts. Unfortnetly it´s written in danish.
There will be an review of the album as well.
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| 27. April |
New bandpictures. Check out the pictures-page.
(Photos by Trym I. Bergsmo.) |
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| 15. April |
| Finnero Band on tour.
Finnero Band will be touring Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Baltics. Check a live-club near you!
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| 6. March |
| Short raw videoclips and pictures from the releaseconcert.
http://www.visitharstad.com/finnero/index.htm
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| 26. February |
| Review at Norwegian rockweb site. 3 off 5 possible guitars.
http://www.rockeweb.com/finnero.htm
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| 15. January |
The first review of the CD is wery good. We are happy to see that the journalist gave it five of six points.
Unfortinatly it´s written i Norwegian, but there will soon be an english version of it.
See it here...
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| 10. January |
There will be released a DVD with clips of some of the projects Finnero has been involved in the last years.
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| 5. January |
Finn-Ero and his crew wish you all a happy new year, and want to thank everybody that has been helping us in the past year.
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| 26. December |
Finnero band are playing together with four other bands at christmas party at Studenkroa in Harstad.
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| 27. November |
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Finnero released his first solo-album - From where I stand.
The album is recorded during this summer, and will include 9 blues, soul and Rock´n´roll inspired songs.
All songs are written by Finnero and his band., exept In the hall of the mountain king, which is written over the Edvard Grieg theme, by Richie Blackmore and Candice Night.
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| 13. November |
Warm Up Party In Tallinn
The night before Deep Purple's concert (November 22) in Tallinn, Estonia November 21, it will be a "Deep Purple Warm Up Night", held in "Club Amigo" in the basement of "Hotel Viru". Special guests is the Norwegian Deep Purple tribute band "Elements", which is brought in for the occation. The club opens 21.00 local time.
Thanks to I. Rudolfsen for the information.
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| 14. september |
Finnero will apear at Harstad Rockfestival with his band and the magic strings, together with Vidar Busk, Knut Reiersrud and Legendary Albert Lee.
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