Nerikes Allehanda 2023-03-19
By: JERRY PRÜTZ
Always current Helen Sjöholm is doing one of six exclusive gigs in Askersund and the Sjöängen cultural center. A long-sold-out performance of the slightly more pared-down kind with only pianist Rikard Nilsson as company on stage.
Recently, she was a guest at the finale of STV’s long-running show På spåret (On the Track) together with the constant partner Tommy Körberg and Benny Andersson Band, where they sang two songs.
– I would never dare to compete in On the Track and if I were asked I would say no. But getting the chance to perform in the program is very fun and great, explains the popular singer.
But the biggest thing of all this spring is to perform in Askersund on Sunday the second of April.
– Of course it is, it’s always the best and most fun to meet the audience, especially when it’s such an intimate concert. We´ve a set list of songs and a program to stick to, but it isn´t written in stone but can be changed a little depending on how I feel, explains Helen, who celebrates 31 years as an artist this year.
– It was really lucky that it wasn’t 35 years ago that I got it first, she laughs and begins to tell about her long service in the world of music and theater, which began professionally back in 1992 (…)
– I actually don’t know what I would do if my career was over. I can’t do anything, laughs Helen, who has passed 50 years with a bang.
Now she is not at risk of becoming unemployed as it became public in the past few days that Helen has one of the roles in the musical based on the beloved Swedish film epic Änglagård (House of Angels) by Colin Nutley. In the new interpretation, which premieres at the Oscar Theater in Stockholm on September 10, Helen Sjöholm plays the tradition-bound farmer’s wife Rut.
But first she stops in Askersund.
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