{"id":232032,"date":"2025-07-02T12:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/232032\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:55:13","slug":"swedish-choirs-celebrate-midsummer-magic-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/232032\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Choirs Celebrate Midsummer Magic in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Two Swedish choirs marked the summer solstice last week, performing traditional songs at the Southbank Centre\u2019s Midsummer Melodies event.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonsvenskar.com\/join-londonswedes-choir\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">London Swedes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.norrsangchoir.co.uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Norrs\u00e5ng<\/a> choirs came together to celebrate Sweden\u2019s cherished Midsummer festival, an annual tribute to light, nature and renewal after the long Nordic winter.<\/p>\n<p>For members of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swlondoner.co.uk\/life\/23022016-small-piece-scandinavia-south-west-london-new-nordic-lifestyle-store-cafe-open-putney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">London\u2019s Swedish community<\/a>, choirs like these offer more than a place to sing as they are homes away from home.<\/p>\n<p>London Swedes choir director Michaela Lundin said: \u201cI live in the one of the best and most vibrant cities in the world, but at the same time I feel like I live in a small Swedish village, because I have my little Swedish community and choir.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I get the best of both worlds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Norrs\u00e5ng\u2019s Elin Clements believes that the music has a transformative quality that form new connections through old traditions.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cWhen you\u2019re singing together and looking at each, you get this really lovely connection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd bonding through the singing is such an important part.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Picture credit: Joe Mannion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Swedish choirs marked the summer solstice last week, performing traditional songs at the Southbank Centre\u2019s Midsummer Melodies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[53431,748,91093,393,4884,257,269,80407,91094,812,24130,16,15],"class_list":["post-232032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-abba","tag-britain","tag-choirs","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-london","tag-music","tag-song","tag-southbank","tag-sweden","tag-tradition","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114783749739666106","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}