Award-winning European Blues. A soul and blues gig with Bonita Niessen and the band The Blues Shacks, featuring vintage music from Chicago blues to rockabilly, soul and Texas shuffle.

Bonita & the Blues Shacks

Biljardkompaniet

PICNIC concert! Bring your own picnic basket, chair and blanket, and enjoy a while on the lovely grassy hill. Erik Söderlind – guitar, Johnny Åhman – bass.

Erik Söderlind Duo

Äppelbacken hos Carlströms

Blues trio from Munich: Fabian Spang (guitar and vocals), Ina Spang (guitar and mandolin) and Michi Lang (drums and bass). Original compositions and interpretations of Son House, Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan. Part of Kristianstad KulturNatt, free admission.

Muddy What?

Michael Mayo and Norrbotten Big Band at Kristianstad Kulturnatt, Kulturkvarteret Kristianstad. Part of Kristianstad KulturNatt, free admission.

Michael Mayo and Norrbotten Big Band

Kulturkvarteret

Anders Widmark - piano, vocals. Tobias Grenholm - bass. Simon Liljeblad - drums.

Anders Widmark Trio

Swing 23 – a jazz guitar and violin quartet performing music inspired by Django Reinhardt, spanning 1920s Paris, New York jazz, and contemporary gypsy swing. Part of the Afternoon Jazz concert series at Kulturkvarteret.

Afternoon Jazz

Kristianstad KulturKvarter

Jazz quartet Tonbruket: a blend of jazz, avant-garde, psychedelic jazz, krautrock and progressive rock, moving between swinging jazz, folk and raw rock.

Tonbruket

New Orleans-style brass band playing New Orleans repertoire mixed with well-known popular music. Line-up: Leon Falk (trombone/vocals), Hannes Junestav (trombone), Elin Andersson (trumpet), Emma Granstam (trumpet), Nicklas Dahlin (tenor saxophone), Klas Eriksson (sousaphone), Mikael Nitsche (snare drum), Ina Molin (bass drum).

Storstan Street Brass

Afternoon Jazz. Plunge and Bobo Stenson have a long-standing collaboration that has resulted in several tours and concerts in Sweden and Europe, several radio-broadcast concerts, and two albums. 2025 marks the 20th anniversary of their first joint album (Plunge with Bobo Stenson), and this is being celebrated with a tour.

Plunge and Bobo Stenson

Organ for life and the future. Hammond legend Merit Hemmingson, 83, recipient of the Svensk Jazz Lifetime Achievement Award 2024.

Merit Hemmingson

Katrine Madsen is a singer with a dark, airy voice and strong stage presence, performing American standards and romantic ballads with Blekinge Big Band under Berndt Sjögren. Arranged by Blue Bird Jazz Club in cooperation with Studiefrämjandet Skåne-Blekinge, with support from Kulturrådet.

Katrine Madsen and Blekinge Big Band

Kulturhuset Borgen

Love for blues & rock 'n' roll! Together they share their love of blues and rock 'n' roll, the desire to write their own songs in this tradition and perform them in broad, delightful Skånska (the Scanian dialect). In addition, both Nisse and Bloosblasters have collaborated with Peps Persson over the years.

Bloosblasters with Nisse Hellberg

Delight and hope! Here the relationship between color and music is explored. The music is based on eight paintings from the series "Hidden Words" by the painter and visual artist Jean-Antoine Hierro. An event arranged by Blue Bird Jazz Club and Musik i Syd, with support from the Swedish Arts Council, Kristianstad Municipality and Studiefrämjandet.

COLORS

PICKNIC concert with Kameleontkvartetten in Äpplebacken at Carlströms in Olseröd. Four musicians performing jazz and blues inspired music.

Kameleontkvartetten

Carlströms i Olseröd

Two PICKNICK concerts in Äpplebacken at Carlström's in Olseröd. Bring your own picnic, chair and blanket.

Jan Lundgren, Hanna Svensson, Ale Möller and Filip Jers

The swingingest, coolest, and all-around best jazz tunes from the past and present, played in new arrangements written by and for the band. Some of the hits sound like the originals, but "Fly Me To The Moon" might turn into a ballad, and "Summertime" might be played as a lightning-fast bebop. But you'll recognize them, and you're sure to enjoy and swing along with some of Sweden's finest jazz musicians.

Stockholm Swing All Stars

PickNickKonsert: Christmas gift exchange and blues with Edvik Band at Tollarp Community Center. An event arranged by Blue Bird Jazz in cooperation with Studiefrämjandet.

Edvik Band - Christmas Gift Exchange Blues with a Touch of Jazz

Tollarps Medborgarhus

Tough jazz for young hipsters! Crime Jazz, jazz for a new generation and slow-burn yearning widescreen chamber pop.

Thomas Backman - Crime Jazz

Two blues and jazz concerts in Äppelbacken at Carlströms in Olseröd, featuring Sven Wickström Blues Band (1 July) and Stella Gustin with trio (9 July).

Blues Swing and Lovely Singing in Äppelbacken

The Tolvmannabandet Funk That plays modern big band music with a focus on funk and soul, featuring music by Stevie Wonder, Tower of Power, Earth Wind and Fire, and ABBA, among others.

Funk That

Regionmuseet

Jazz in Kristianstad Culture Night. Pelle Holmberg (guitar), Mathias Tofte (bass), Frank Nilsson (drums) and Sofi Hellborg (saxophone, vocals). A mix of jazz, rock, funk and blues. Presented in collaboration with Musik i Syd.

Pelle Holmberg Group feat. Sofi Hellborg

ALL5 is Anna Lundqvist's quintet in Lisbon, Portugal. The music is written by Anna Lundqvist and carries influences from Latin American music, pop, rock, and Swedish hymns.

Anna Lundqvist Lisboa Cinco

Christian IV:s gymnasium

The Selma Pinton Quartet plays its own music by singer Selma Pinton, along with jazz standards reimagined in fresh arrangements. The music ranges from small, stripped-down and intimate to heavier, swelling and more grandiose swing.

Selma Pinton Quartet

Support: Dogma Music Band (19.00). Main act: Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado (20.00). Blues, rock, soul, roots, americana and funk.

Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado

Knislinge Folkets Park

Sunshine for everyone! A bag of mixed folk and jazz candy from nearby rather than far away, something everyone can love.

Anna-Mia Barwe Trio

Classic trad jazz in Olseröd. The band has been together for over 20 years and founded the Tradjazzfestivalen in Hällevik, one of the most important trad jazz festivals in Europe.

Dragkedjan Jazz Band

A musical journey through the history of jazz. This all-star band invites you on a musical journey whose repertoire stretches from the birth of jazz in the United States to Danish jazz of the 1970s, in new and beautiful interpretations with a touch of electronic spice.

Old News feat. Elith ’Nulle’ Nykjær

Aoseum

Magic with voice and piano. The music moves between European jazz, beat and pop, where original compositions are blended with songs by Joni Mitchell, Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone and Jay-Jay Johansson.

Anna Lundqvist & Jonas André

C4 Gymnasiet

Colorful blues during Culture Night. Virginia & Skybenders, winner of the Scandinavian Blues Contest 2014 at the Mönsterås Blues Festival. Repertoire of interpretations and original material, inspired by BB King, Albert Collins, Eric Clapton, Big Joe Turner, Big Mama Thornton, Etta James, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple and Santana.

Virginia & Skybenders

Bistro Årum

Jazz meets pop. Long moods, groovy beats and improvisation — an electronic ocean. Three horns, synth, bass and drums with electronics.

Klabbes Bank

Songs in the key of Frank & Lilla Blå. Two-part evening: Anders Anton and Rune Lindqvist honour Frank Sinatra's classic songs; then the blues band Lilla Blå performs with Scanian-language interpretations.

Bröllopsblues & Frank Sinatra

A unique opportunity to hear two of Sweden's most seasoned jazz musicians perform together for the first time as a duo: vocalist Lina Nyberg and pianist Daniel Karlsson. Daniel and Lina present a selection of jazz standards and evergreens that guide us step by step through the evening, the night, and the early morning.

Lina Nyberg & Daniel Karlsson Duo

Erik Söderlind - guitar, Leo Lindberg - organ, Chris Montgomery - drums.

Erik Söderlind Trio

Fusion of Bengali songs, rhythms and sounds with Western traditions, blending folk, jazz and classical Indian music in improvised and composed pieces.

Suranjana Ghosh & Teental feat. Jonas Knutsson

Gustaf Janernäs and Stefan Koro

Järnvägsgatan 4 L-N

Oxhagsv 1-20

Sommarlustv 8-14

ABK and Blue Bird Jazz present Gårdsjazz. Free concert! Gustaf Ljunggren and Emil de Waal have played together for over 20 years.

Gustaf Ljunggren/Emil de Waal

Finlandsgatan 4-6

Mäster Jörgensgatan

Vendesgatan 1 A-D

Hard-swinging and melodic jazz with elements of folk music and blues. Picnic concert.

Jean-Simon Maurin Trio

The concert is part of the LiveGreen Festival, May 22-23, and is a part of Kulturnatten Kristianstad. Free admission. A special kind of magic arises when singer Anna Lundqvist and pianist Jonas André play together, an interplay of an almost telepathic nature. The music moves seamlessly between European jazz, beat and pop, with original compositions mixed with songs by, for example, Joni Mitchell, Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone, Alexander Lövmark, Anders von Hofsten and Jay-Jay Johansson.

Anna Lundqvist and Jonas André

Go North. The Niclas Knudsen Trio takes jazz as its starting point, but moves northward in a search for new musical hunting grounds. The result is phrases drawn from old folk songs, hymns and ballads, which takes the music somewhere that might be called Nordic blues.

Niclas Knudsen Trio

Café Årum, Naturum

A European supergroup of five distinctive improvisers from Northern to Southern Europe. The music is playful and free, full of contrasts, with both completely free improvisations and original compositions by Michala Østergaard-Nielsen.

Østergaard Art Quartet feat. Anders Jormin

Peter Asplund Big Band Show – Peter Asplund's big Christmas show with vocalists Isabella Lundgren, Vivian Buczek and Anna Jalkéus, backed by XL Big Band.

The Christmas Feeling

Afternoon Jazz – a duo album-based concert by Viktoria Tolstoy and Jacob Karlzon, a musical dialogue built over three decades of trust, curiosity and quiet boldness.

Viktoria Tolstoy & Jacob Karlzon

Miriam Aida and her group pay tribute to David Bowie's career (1969-2016), with influences of Afro-Brazilian rhythms, jazz, reggae and Swedish melancholy.

Blue Bird Jazzclub

Nov 7, 2026

Viktoria Tolstoy & Jacob Karlzon

Nov 21, 2026

Miriam Aida möter David Bowies Loving the Alien

Oct 23, 2026

Bonita & the Blues Shacks

Jul 11, 2026

Erik Söderlind Duo

Blue Bird Jazzclub