Join us to celebrate UN Day! The day marks the date the UN Charter came into force, on October 24, 1945. UN Day highlights cooperation, friendship and community across national borders. We are inviting you to a storytime and creative workshop where children can make their own friendship bracelets. First, one of our librarians will read stories about friendship and what it means to be a good friend. Afterward, there will be a workshop where we braid friendship bracelets. Suitable for ages 6-12.

UN Day: Storytime and Workshop

Drammensbiblioteket

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Sagliocco Ensemble presents Bibliotek-Karens bibliotek, a theatre performance for small children about a librarian's library and a tiny newborn book that cries. Duration 35 min, suitable from age 4+. Supported by Spenn, Norsk Kulturråd Vestfold og Telemark, Porsgrunn kommune and Fond for utøvende kunstnere.

Bragelørdag: Bibliotek-Karens bibliotek

Brageteatret

Evening concert (18+). Hagle shifts gears into 2026 and floors it with his joy-spreading country rap, which has been embraced by the whole nation. In fall 2026, you can experience Hagle with his fantastic live band at select concert venues.

Hagle

A glittering 90s youth-club party with bingo, singing and dancing. Second season at Union Scene, produced by ELVEKOMPANIET with Julie Støp Husby and Andrea Vik.

BingoBar 90s Edition

Concert with Dumdum Boys on the Main Stage, Union Scene, Oslo. Concert starts at 8:00 PM, bar opens at 6:00 PM, doors open at 7:00 PM. Age limit 18+ with guardian.

Dumdum Boys

October Morsomheter. Stand Up Drammen is Drammen's first stand-up comedy club and has kept things going since 2012, with its main home at Union Scene.

Standup Drammen

Family performance with song, rhythms, percussion and stories from Côte d'Ivoire. Suitable for ages 3 and up. Running time approx. 40 min.

Kouame Meets the Children

September improv. Improv theatre with Elvekompaniet, led by Peter Kolbjørnsen. The audience influences the storyline. Price 200 NOK. Age limit 18+ with guardian arrangement.

Elvekompaniet Improv

Award-winning band that redefines contemporary R&B. Drammen Jazzforum presents the Orbits concert!

Orbits

Lots of fun activities for the youngest kids during the Globus Festival: taekwondo, face painting, hair braiding, a fashion show, henna painting, bike service and a kite-making workshop. Free.

Mini-Globus

Strømsø Torg

Bingo show with an 80s theme. The ticket includes one bingo card with three bingo rows; additional cards can be purchased for 30 kroner each. Produced by ELVEKOMPANIET with Julie Støp Husby and Andrea Vik.

BingoBar 80s Edition

The Shame Disco. DJ Reform94 throws a youth disco for adults, with the best/worst music from the nineties.

Reform94

Bakgårdssalsa. Hovedøen Social Club has for over 19 years made energetic, danceable Cuban versions of Norwegian pop music from earlier decades, with Caribbean joy and polyrhythms.

Hovedøen Social Club

Backyard concert with Jokke and the Valentinerne lineup: Håkon (bass), May-Irene (drums), Petter Pogo (guitar) and Vidar Rugset (vocals).

The Valentines

Valkyrien Allstars

Backyard Concert: A tribute to Bruce Springsteen. Welcome to a concert in the finest backyard in Drammen, with a tribute band that is celebrating 20 years this year! 30 songs, 10 musicians, a three-hour energy bomb of a concert.

Cover Me

The summer outdoor area in Union Scene's backyard in Drammen, open Thursday to Saturday from 4:00 PM to 11:00 PM until August 22, with football parties during the World Cup, concerts and a children's football party.

Summer in the Backyard

Football festival on the Main Stage during the World Cup. Free admission, big screen(s), and unnumbered seating (maximum 500). Matches will be shown from June 11 to July 19.

Football Festival at Union

Vi tester fotballfesten! Test screening of Norway's private friendly match against Morocco on big screen, free entry, unnumbered seating.

Marokko – Norge

Free cultural events across Drammen, the Union Scene program for Kulturnatt Drammen 2026. The program includes children's activities, a silent disco, choir performances and stand-up comedy.

Kulturnatt Drammen 2026

A summer finale featuring a lineup of young, up-and-coming talents and seasoned stand-up comedians. Hosts: Christopher Bakken and Jon Gjerde. Performers: Amanda Søderstrad-Hanssen, Angelica Bråthen, Mohammed Basefer, Tom Erik Arnesen, Anders Nykås.

Standup Drammen: Summer Finale

Hurray and welcome to the May 17 celebration in Drammen's finest backyard for both big and small! We open at 10:30 and keep things going until 3:00 PM with cake, hot dogs, soda and much more.

May 17 at Union

TNT celebrates 40 years since the release of 'Knights of the New Thunder', with support from Cocktail Slippers.

TNT - Celebrating 40 Years of Thunder

Through play and competition, you'll learn how to taste, smell and look at wine, while gaining a basic understanding of different grape varieties and wine styles. The focus is on this year's spring and summer wines.

Winemaking with a Nose for Fun

We are delighted to welcome you to Flukten, in collaboration with Drammen Jazzforum! The quartet received the Spellemannsprisen award in jazz for their debut album Velkommen Håp in 2022, and has just recorded its follow-up at Propeller Studio in Oslo. The highly anticipated second album will be released on Odin Records in April 2024.

Flukten

The theremin comes to life! For many, the theremin is the very sound of 1950s science fiction. Lilli-Eline Skomsøy plays theremin and narrates, while Erlend Willmann plays synth. Together they invite you to a concert performance where live music, storytelling, animation and images come together.

Drammen Noise Scene SPECIAL

GummiLyd is a concert series where experimental music and more niche genres, performances and live art can be experienced. This includes electronica, drone music, ambient, dark industrial, synth and sequencer-based sound design, spoken word, dance, improvised noise music based on processed field recordings on DIY and unconventional instruments, free jazz, or harsh noise.

Gummilyd #32

The legendary psychedelic collective Gong continues to change, evolve and defy all expectations. Today's lineup – Kavus Torabi, Dave Sturt, Ian East, Cheb Nettles and Fabio Golfetti – emerges as an explosive live force, delivering groundbreaking music for the ages and captivating audiences across the universe.

Gong

Printmaking workshop with artist Milton Mondal at Buskerud Kunstsenter. Explore various graphic printing techniques with guidance. The workshop is conducted in English and suitable for all. Limited number of spots.

Workshop at Buskerud Kunstsenter

Buskerud Kunstsenter

30th anniversary of Bandmønstringen, the concert day of the Buskerud Music Council for music groups with intellectual disabilities and other disabilities. Free admission.

Band Muster 2026

Norwegian rock band CC Cowboys, formed in Fredrikstad in 1989. Front figure Magnus Grønneberg (guitar/vocals), with Jørn Christensen (guitar), Per Vestaby (bass), Henrik Maarud (drums) and Eirik Tovsrud Knutsen (keyboards).

CC Cowboys

Interkultur invites you to an energetic and playful family concert with Kenneth Ekornes. With over 100 small and large percussion instruments, he takes the audience on a musical journey around the world, from Brazil and Africa to China and India.

Ekornes i 100

The Drammen record fair is one of the country's largest and, not least, most enjoyable fairs. As always, there will be yards and yards of music in all kinds of physical forms and formats.

Drammen Record Fair

Nordic folk-indie with power, distinctive character and international potential. This year's last jazz concert in the Drammen Jazzforum autumn series.

Diket (SE/NO)

Ingvard Wilhelmsen

This fall, Susanne Sundfør invites audiences into a new musical landscape. Featuring songs from across her career, reimagined for the occasion in bluegrass and country sounds, she sets out on an extensive fall tour alongside some of the country's leading musicians.

Susanne Sundfør

Family Reggae Disco – a family-friendly celebration of children and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, combining reggae, dance, circus, activities and community. Free admission.

Barnas Bursdag

New Voices from Drammen. Young people from Drammen present their own texts and music in folk, country, rock, rap, hip-hop, punk and poetry.

Ungt Blikk

Union Scene for Barn invites children to a cozy Christmas closing celebration with a festive pre-Christmas atmosphere.

Christmas Closing Celebration

Foredrag: Sjef i eget liv — inspirational lecture on self-leadership, trust and teamwork, drawing on his military and maritime security background.

John Hammersmark

Special Guest: Chontaraz. Pagan's Mind, Norwegian progressive/heavy metal band from Telemark, returns for a rare 2026 Norwegian performance.

Pagan's Mind

Julefolk – Christmas Concert with Hekla Stålstrenga. A unique blend of folk music and popular music, featuring well-known and lesser-known Christmas songs.

Hekla Stålstrenga

When the one and only Elias Akselsen brings along the equally one and only Stian Carstensen and invites you to a Christmas concert with both Romani songs, stories and traditional Christmas carols, there is no doubt that this will be a pleasant evening.

Mot Lys - A Moderate Christmas with Inge Bremnes

Special Guest: Chontaraz. Support: Connect the Circle. Lineup also lists Pagan's Mind.

Leprous

Christmas Concert. An atmospheric Christmas concert with jazz and crooner traditions, led by Hilde Louise Asbjørnsen.

Hilde Louise Orchestra

Xmas Edition – a hybrid of julebord, bingo, juletrefest and juleshow, produced by ELVEKOMPANIET (Julie Støp Husby and Andrea Vik).

BingoBar

A Norwegian 90s pop concert with the band Di Derre on the Main Stage, Union Scene.

Di Derre

Valentourettes plays Jokke at Union! The quartet performs rock in concert, with support from The Explödements.

Valentourettes

Christmas concert where Young Neils sings in the holiday season at Union Scene, an annual tradition on December 20.

Young Neils

Christmas-week rock at Union Scene. Scandinavia's rawest AC/DC show, a traditional Christmas concert in Drammen.

Dirty Deeds

Lecture with Anne Lindmo and Nina Brochmann. For the first time, Anne Lindmo takes the stage in a double act with physician, author and popular educator Nina Brochmann. With good-humored enthusiasm, they share experiences, knowledge and reflections on the appetite for life, in the body and in nature.

Lyst på livet

On Saturday, February 6, Interkultur invites you to an energetic evening of Cuban rhythms when Haila y Su Orquesta takes over Union Scene! Haila is known as one of Cuba's most distinctive vocalists. Together with her orchestra, she delivers a lively blend of salsa, timba, son and Latin jazz. DJ Angel from Cuba sets the mood before and after the concert. Dance workshop with Andy & Yuliet from Bailan 2 at 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (separate ticket or combination ticket required).

Haila y Su Orquesta

Concert with Erlend Ropstad and band on the Main Stage. Rock/singer-songwriter.

Erlend Ropstad with Band

Hans Magne Skard is back with a brand-new stand-up show! Following the success of "Rett i Pennalet," he now takes the next step with his second solo show, "Skruball."

Skruball

The quartet The Red Barn collaborates with vocalist Bjørn Tomren on a new album that blends jazz, Americana, space country and folk music.

The Red Barn og Bjørn Tomren

Saturday, March 6, 6:00 PM. Bar and doors: 6:00 PM. Concert starts: 7:00 PM. Age limit: 18+ with guardian arrangement. Price: 350 NOK. Martin Hagfors and Marit Karlberg were set to make music together; Martin Hagfors is approaching his thirtieth album as a solo artist and songwriter in Home Groan, HGH, Cream of The Crop and Meg og Kammeraten min. Marit Karlberg is a langeleik musician in Norwegian folk music.

Martin Hagfors and Marit Karlberg

Rotlaus is coming back to Union for a club concert! After dazzling performances at festivals across the country, we can finally announce that Rotlaus takes the stage with us on March 6! Bring your circle of friends and get ready for an evening filled with sing-alongs, heartfelt music and electric energy.

Rotlaus

Norwegian jazz quartet with an avant-garde, singer/songwriter and free-improvisation inspired sound. Jazzkafé starts at 18:00 before the concert. Entry price 330 NOK, 18+ with guardian arrangement.

Schemes Quartet

BSG Forever, Forever BSG! Backstreet Girls is back in Drammen with new vocalist Roar Leren, after Bjørn Müller passed away in November 2024.

Backstreet Girls

In 2026, Kanaan celebrates ten years as a band with their tenth album, which they have simply and fittingly called Kanaan. It felt entirely natural for the album to be self-titled, since it builds on a solid musical foundation the band has created over a full decade. And this foundation is shaking hard.

Kanaan

Lecture: Russia - Our Gloomy Present. Join journalism legend Hans-Wilhelm Steinfeld as he takes us on an insightful and entertaining tour of Russian politics, society and history!

Hans-Wilhelm Steinfeld

Norwegian pop concert tour: Synne Vo, with full band, performing hits such as «Lykke te», «MVH» and «Heime».

Synne Vo – Her vil e vær – Norway Tour

Emil Bø's band Not Normal presents its new album in its first concert with new music, in Drammen, Emil's hometown. The band was formed after Emil Bø received Oslo Jazzfestival's talent prize, in cooperation with USBL.

Not Normal

Senegalese mbalax concert by Ndeye Fatou Tine (Titi). Doors 7:30 PM, concert starts 8:30 PM. 18+ with guardian.

Titi

Lecture: Ukraine - A Winter Journey. Erika Fatland's account of a bitterly cold winter journey through Ukraine, meeting people on Europe's frontline during the war.

Erika Fatland: Ukraine - A Winter Journey

The ultimate live tribute to the legendary George Michael. Amazing Tour 2027. The repertoire spans from Wham! classics to George Michael's solo career, with vocalist Martin Grønbek.

Union Scene

Nov 6, 2026

Gong

Nov 7, 2026

Workshop at Buskerud Kunstsenter

Nov 8, 2026

Band Muster 2026

Nov 14, 2026

CC Cowboys

Nov 14, 2026

Ekornes i 100

Oct 24, 2026

UN Day: Storytime and Workshop

Oct 18, 2026

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Union Scene