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May 14, 2012April 26, 2018

Hear me live on Ladies Night

On May 20th at 7pm I’ll visit the online radio station 40FootHoleStudio’s show Ladies Night to play a couple of songs and talk about my tour. It’s a show about female artists and their music (men are also welcome to listen though). The show is aired every Sunday at 7pm EST. / 12am UK time and can be heard in 30 countries.

“Founder Dave McMahon, whose musical devotion lies somewhere between fan and fanatic, explained how he first started as an internet DJ. ‘I love music,” he said “but I hate radio.’”

Which explains why the station is focused on indie music and not top 40 and have no commercial ads in between the songs.

You can check out 40FootHoleStudio’s Facebook site to see their latest updates and if you want to listen live, just click here.

May 14, 2012

Last minute Baltimore show!

Come to Cyclops in Baltimore on Wednesday!

I just landed a last minute show in Baltimore, MD this Wednesday May 16th. I’m playing at Cyclops (30 West North Ave.) with Baltimore band American Folklore and NYC singer/songwriter Anthony DaCosta. After that I’ll be heading up to Philadelhia, PA for a show at Connie’s Ric Rac on Thursday. I hope to see a lot of friendly faces on the shows!

March 22, 2012

Space City Rock!

I missed out on my gig at the Super Happy Funland SXSW after party in Houston this week as my tour bus broke down in Austin, but Space City Rock blog did a really great write up for the gig. I hope people found out in time that I couldn’t make it. I’m playing March 25th at Dun Bros Coffee in Katy, TX instead if you want to come and see my show.

[quote] I’ll admit to being somewhat biased towards Swedish musicians, these days; few other countries crank out thatmany crystalline-perfect pop songwriters, year after year and decade after decade (think Abba, Peter Bjorn and John, Miike Snow, The Cardigans, Jens Lekman, Jose Gonzalez, etc., not to mention less-pop folks like The Knife or The Hives).

And happily, Swede Sofia Talvik doesn’t shatter my illusions, delivering an impeccably-crafted set of songs that draws on gentle country-folk and fey indie-pop, somewhere in between the mysterious beauty of Eisley (or maybe Tori Amos) and the floating folkiness of Hem. It’s good stuff. [/quote]

March 6, 2012

Sofia Talvik at SXSW

Sofia Talvik live at SXSW 2010 photo by Womens Radio

For the fourth year in a row I’m officially invited to play the SXSW festival in Austin, TX in March! I really look forward to coming back to Austin, as I couldn’t attend last year and SXSW is one of my favorite festivals. I have plenty of showcases so I look forward to seeing you all there. Here’s the current list of my gigs, stay tuned for updates:

Sofia Talvik @ Red Shed Tavern (part of Indie on air! Ascension Tour)
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 4:30pm

Sofia Talvik @ Hyatt Regency Austin
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 6:00pm

Sofia Talvik @ Backroads Austin
Friday, March 16, 2012 at 2:00pm

Sofia Talvik @ Stephen F’s Bar
Friday, March 16, 2012 at 12:00am

Sofia Talvik @ Wyndham Garden Hotel
Friday, March 16, 2012 at 6:00pm

Sofia Talvik @ Wyndham Garden Hotel
Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 6:00pm

March 5, 2012March 5, 2012

Folking in Memphis

Last week I attended the Folk Alliance International Conference in Memphis, TN.

I spent a few hectic days attending seminars, networking and playing showcases. It was a lot of fun and we met a bunch of great people there that I hope to reconnect with further down the road. It was interesting to be totally surrounded by folkies for a while. I’ve always counted myself into the genre but haven’t quite been part of the scene if you know what I mean. Folk – being such a small genre in Sweden, I’ve always been a part of the pop scene anyway and that’s what I know so it was cool to see how the folk sceene thrives in the US.

Jonas took a bunch of pictures from the conference and you can see a selection here!
Feel free to tag yourself if you find yourself in any of the pictures.

I’ve been down with the flu for a week now, there were a lot of bugs circulating in the AC system at the hotel those days and I’ve heard a lot of attendees got sick. I’m glad to be (almost) well again though as I have some great gigs in Texas ahead of me.

Here’s the ones ahead:

Wednesday, 03/07 Lindale, TX Art of Coffee

Thursday, 03/08 Texarkana, AR Hopkins Icehouse

Friday, 03/09 Dallas, TX Opening Bell Coffee

Saturday, 03/10 San Antonio, TX G.I.G On The Strip