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Nordic roots trio Dreamers’ Circus blends echoes of the past with the vital pulse of the present, creating magic in their evocative, vibrant arrangements and original compositions.

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Dreamers’ Circus

New England Conservatory of Music

After a smashing hit back in 2019 having made their American West Coast debut on Emerald City Music’s stage, Dreamers’ Circus is returning to the Puget Sound from Denmark!

Emerald City Music: The Return of Dreamers’ Circus

South Puget Sound Community College

“Two Danes and a Swede walked into a pub…no, not the opening line of a joke; rather, the beginning of a musical collaboration that has produced some of the most exciting new music to emanate from Scandinavia,” asserts Folk Radio. One of those Danes is none other than violinist Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen of the Danish String Quartet, appearing on our Concert Classics Series later this fall. With astounding acrobatics on violin, accordion/piano and the cittern (a relative of the mandolin), the young trio performs original, genre-bending compositions that blend vibrant Danish, Swedish, and Icelandic folk traditions with influences from jazz, classical, and pop music spheres—pushing the Nordic sound into an imaginative new realm. “The name Dreamers’ Circus is based on associations,” explains Sørensen. “Think of the vivid colors we associate with childhood memories of the Circus. Remember the magic of entering the tent as a child — the way our senses were engaged. In our music, we always strive to invoke a place of freedom, somewhere for our imagination to play in and a space for dreaming.”

Dreamers' Circus

Alexander Hall

Princeton University

“Two Danes and a Swede walked into a pub…no, not the opening line of a joke; rather, the beginning of a musical collaboration that has produced some of the most exciting new music to emanate from Scandinavia,” asserts Folk Radio. A fresh, driving force in Nordic music, Dreamers’ Circus takes off from deep folk traditions with ancient and modern instruments and gives voice to a newly forged amalgamation of history and sound.

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

A fresh, driving force in Nordic music, Dreamers’ Circus takes off from deep folk traditions with ancient and modern instruments and gives voice to a newly forged amalgamation of history and sound.

The Nordic trio Dreamers’ Circus, winner of five Danish Music Awards, is a genre-defying blend of jazz, classical and traditional Scandinavian music, inspired by and rooted in the traditional folk tunes of Northern Europe but also unmistakably contemporary.

Flagstar Strand Theatre

You may well feel as though you’ve swapped the Queen Elizabeth Hall for a retreat in the Finnish countryside with this triumphant proclamation of nature in all its beauty.

Guitarist

Ale Carr

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 25, 2026

Pekka Kuusisto, Ale Carr & Aurora Orchestra: Four Seasons · Southbank Centre

Past events

Oct 26, 2025

Dreamers’ Circus · Celebrity Series of Boston

Mar 1, 2025

Emerald City Music: The Return of Dreamers’ Circus · The Washington Center for the Performing Arts

Future and recently performed repertoire

Cittern in Plan & Elevation by Shaw

Southbank Centre

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