{"id":11622,"date":"2021-12-25T19:08:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T17:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/?page_id=11622"},"modified":"2021-12-25T20:41:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T18:41:23","slug":"very-nice-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/press-clips\/various-2021\/very-nice-atmosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"“Very nice atmosphere”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kristianstadsbladet 2021-12-20<\/strong><\/p>\n

By: SOFIA FREIJD\/TT<\/p>\n

Childhood friends Helen Sj\u00f6holm and Anna Stadling love Christmas music. Their Christmas tour in mini format makes a stop in Nederlule\u00e5 church, where they set the mood for Str\u00e5lande jul (Brilliant Christmas)<\/em> from Lule\u00e5.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the concert, in the middle of the world heritage Gammelstads kyrkstad in Lule\u00e5, they share the stage with artists such as Bo Kasper’s Orchestra, Tusse and Kalle Moraeus.<\/p>\n

\u2013 It isn\u00b4t a given combination of artists but it was a very nice atmosphere, Helen Sj\u00f6holm says.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the concert, which was recorded at the end of November, sold out in five minutes.<\/p>\n

\u2013 It\u00b4s a time when we want to gather around the music. When you get to go to a church on the first of Advent, sit on the bench and hear Hosanna<\/em>, there is something magical about it. A larger arch is formed over us that may be needed sometimes, Anna Stadling says.<\/p>\n

The friends sing their new Christmas song Julen kan hj\u00e4lpa (Christmas can help)<\/em>, which was released in November. It\u00b4s a new interpretation of Maybe this Christmas<\/em> by Ron Sexsmith, with Swedish text by Andreas Mattsson.<\/p>\n

\u2013 It opens up for both thoughts and reflection. Around Christmas, many get a little more time to gather, maybe call and check the situation with someone you haven\u00b4t talked to in a long time or invite for a coffee, Helen Sj\u00f6holm says.<\/p>\n

Sj\u00f6holm and Stadling have known each other since they were twelve years old, when Anna started at Helen’s school and they ended up in the same choir. When they got a little older, they formed the duo Meiram. They\u00b4ve kept in touch over the years but haven\u00b4t sung together very much.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Until three years ago, when we did a Christmas tour together. It was amazing and we felt we needed to do more of that.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Large parts of our collaboration have landed well at Christmas. It includes so much twinkling and the dream of happiness, but there is also darkness and the knowledge that not everyone is feeling so well. That duality is difficult but also a bit exciting, says Anna Stadling.<\/p>\n

Next year they\u00b4ll follow up Julen kan hj\u00e4lpa<\/em> with a full-length album and then there will also be a longer tour. Swedish Christmas music is what counts.<\/p>\n

\u2013 It\u00b4s wonderful to be able to wallow in the Swedish language. I made a Christmas album a few years ago with American Christmas carols. The meeting with that music, but in Swedish, that’s a bit my thought now, Anna Stadling says.<\/p>\n

At home in the kitchen, however, everything possible can be played in the Christmas rush.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Mahalia Jackson speeds up the real Christmas feeling for me. My dad always played her Christmas album Silent night<\/em> when I was little, it starts something in me, Helen Sj\u00f6holm says.<\/p>\n

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Anna Stadling<\/h4>\n

Age:<\/strong> 51.
\nFamily:<\/strong> A man and one child.
\nWishing for a Christmas present:<\/strong> “I love pajamas and want a new, silky, thin with long sleeves.”
\nFavorite Christmas song:<\/strong> “O holy night<\/em>, my dad always sang it when I was little”.
\nFavorite Christmas movie:<\/strong> “Karl-Bertil Jonsson’s Christmas Eve”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Helen Sj\u00f6holm<\/h4>\n

Age:<\/strong> 51.
\nFamily:<\/strong> A man and three children.
\nWishing for a Christmas present:<\/strong> “In addition to world peace and an end to the corona pandemic, preferably small corn cob holders.”
\nFavorite Christmas song:<\/strong> “O holy night”<\/em>.
\nFavorite Christmas movie:<\/strong> “Love Actually, <\/em>I usually watch it on the 23rd. And I love Karl-Bertil Jonsson’s Christmas Eve”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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