Falköpings Tidning 130424
By: ROLF JOHANSSON
FALKÖPING. At last she came to Falköping, for the first concert after the arrival of the twins. The Sundsvall girl with the warm, bubbly happy and grand voice. Mother of three, honorary doctor and Guldbagge winner Helen Sjöholm.
She moves as homely in Falköping and Mora as in New York and London, and has seduced us in Kristina, Chess and My Fair Lady, and whom we have enjoyed in the film melody Gabriella’s song and all the other pearls.
Without much fanfare she enterd the City Theatre stage on Sunday. Together with her pianist Martin Östergren she opened the Missionary Church charity concert with Här är gudagott att vara (It’s divine to be here) by Wennerberg. And soon it felt like that.
Success story
Then a rich cavalcade followed. Horgalåten, (Hear the tunes going through the trees) Hörberg’s Med ögon känsliga för grönt (With eyes sensitive to green), and much more. Duvemåla of course and other musical songs, film melodies, hits and selections from her CD albums. She sang Abba’s Money, Money and the mega hit from the Swedish charts Du är min man (You are my man), love song Somliga säger (Some say; song title Summer cards) and Jeremiah from Tröstlösa’s gentle song Man borde inte sova när natten faller på (One shouldn’t sleep when the night falls).
In between, she told us with distance and humor about her life, from her debut with Kjell Lönnå to all the successes of today. Sometimes in the fullest expressive idiom.
Martin Östergren accompanied superbly on the grand piano and you didn´t at all miss the major orchestras Helen Sjöholm often is surrounded by. When he was not playing he sang and whistled.
– Our partnership will last for a very long time, Helen said laudatory.
After long standing ovations the guests were rewarded flowers and Helen got thanks and a crane pendant from Councilor Ulf Eriksson. With the encore Håll i mig hårt och var mig nära (called Our last dance), she finally bid farewell with a melancholy turn on the dance floor.
Intensive job
Behind the Missionary Church’s event there is intense work by the trio Stig-Olof Andersson, Ingvar Lennersten and Kjell Bertilsson. For the third time, they managed to engage businesses and individuals to provide Zimlat Primary School in Kenya the extra help they need. All in all it has become more than a million and this last time 360 000 SEK.
An auction to come
And the auction of the high school furniture in a few days is not included yet. The Löfwing lithographs went to Stina Lönnmyr and Monika Sjöstrand who had placed winning bids of 4100 and 3100 SEK respectively.