This August, Björk, in association with Iceland Airwaves, will livestream three matinee performances to raise money for domestic women’s charities worldwide. The shows are set to take place with a live audience at Reykjavík’s Harpa Hall – in Iceland which is reopening after the COVID-19 pandemic – at 17:00 GMT on August 9, 15 and 23.
Each concert will feature over 100 Icelandic musicians from the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, Flute Septet Viibra and Hamrahlíð Choir all performing instrumental arrangements without electronics. The concerts will be raising money and awareness for Kvennaathvarfid, a charity that supports women and immigrants of different origin within Iceland.
Tickets for the livestreams are available as a bundle or as individual purchases.
Click here to pick-up tickets to watch one or all of Björk’s livestream concerts on August 9, 15 and 23 and look below to read a message from the artist herself.
A Note From Björk:
dear friends
i would like to invite you to some concerts
to honour
folks who got hit hardest in the coronavirus
and the black lives matter movement
and to honour how many icelandic musicians i have worked with through the years
i recorded almost all of my albums with local musicians :
homogenic with an icelandic string octet
medulla with schola cantorum ( an icelandic mixed choir )
volta with 10 brass girls i found all over the island and then later they formed wonderbrass
biophilia with langholt´s church girl choir graduale nobili
vulnicura with a 15 piece string ensemble
utopia with 12 female fluteplayers who later formed the flute septet viibra
cornucopia with hamrahlíð´s choir conducted by þorgerður ingólfsdóttir
all these albums where then performed all around the planet with these musicians
together they are over hundred people !!
and we are going to celebrate that we are all healthily exiting quarantine together by playing concerts in harpa music hall for 3 weekends of august
my input into the feminist fight is to brag about that almost all of those arrangements are by me
unfortunately this is something that is almost always ignored when women are arrangers
the concerts will be in the afternoons and will also be streamed live online, where there will be an option to donate to the icelandic women’s shelter – which supports women of all origin in iceland
for those attending in person, after the concert we will be offering food to raise money in support of this charity
the concerts will be “unplugged” or acoustic and performed without beats and electronics
the concerts will be performed with the icelandic symphony orchestra and guests
i feel we are going through extraordinary times
horrifying but also an opportunity to truly change
it is demanded of us that we finally confront all racism
that we learn that lives are more important that profit
and look inside us and finecomb out all our hidden prejudices and privileges
let´s all humbly learn together
transform
humongous love
björk