I'm featured in Musikkbloggen today. "To særdeles glitrende julelåter fra vår finske venn Jerry Lindqvist! Anbefales på det sterkeste i førjulstiden..." You can read the article here: www.musikkbloggen.no
Sebastian Bergholm also wrote sweetly about my Every Day is Like a Holiday single.."Lindqvist är min kandidat för årets bästa säsongssingel. Tankarna går
till Ryan Adams i den meningen att Lindqvist med oerhört säker hand och
väldigt stilmedvetet och smakfullt skrivit två americanadrypande låtar.
Gitarrerna ringer, de glider, refrängerna är stora och bra,
fraseringarna sitter..." Read the post here: svenska.yle.fi/kultur-och-noje
Now you can also listen to the new Holiday tunes on YouTube. Merry Christmas My Love is accompanied by a photo montage.
Merry Christmas My Love
Every Day is Like a Holiday
I'm excited about playing in my old hometown Vaasa on December 28th w/ The Grace Trio at Ritz. This Holiday Show has an amazing lineup so you wouldn't want to miss this one.
The New Single - Every Day is Like a Holiday - Out Now!
Jerry's brand new two-track Holiday Single is out now on Good People Listen to Records (GPLTR).
December 6th is Finland's Independence Day. Today we are also celebrating Jerry's own independence as this is his first release on his very own record label GPLTR.
1. Every Day Is Like A Holiday
2. Merry Christmas My Love
Players:
Jerry (vocals, guitar)
Jonas Backman (drums)
Mats Ödahl (bass)
Petter Näse (guitar)
Oskar Nyman (guitar, bgvs)
Tobias Granbacka (organ, bgvs)
Conny Ohlson (pedal steel)
Nina Lassander (bgvs)
Produced by Oskar Nyman
Jerry's friend & photographer Lukas Renlund posted a story on his facebook.com/Lukas.Renlund.Photographer page about how our photo shoot for the single design went down in Copenhagen. It was a pretty accurate account of what happened so I also want to share his story with you..
"Not too long ago I had the fine pleasure of welcoming my childhood friend Jerry Lindqvist to Copenhagen for a weekend-long photo shoot. Jerry needed some pics for his upcoming album and X-mas single.
I had chosen the vintage lighting fixtures
store Hot Kotyr in Nørrebro as our location. Little did I know, the
manager would turn out to be Copenhagen's grumpiest (gentle)man. He
simply hated the idea of having us walking around his store taking
photos. Bad experiences from similar requests in the past seemed to be
the reason of his discomfort. Then finally - with a little patchy
small-talk, a few conditions agreed and some good old fashioned bribery
(24 cans of beer) he agreed to let us use the place for one hour and
"not a minute longer".
It went great! We got all the shots we
needed, and more. Here is one of the photographs we made that day. It is
the cover of Jerry's next single, Every Day is Like a Holiday.
The song is actually about the loss of a family member and how the
Holiday season can be a hard time for anyone who is alone or has
recently lost a close one.
With all that said, I hope you'll enjoy the fruits of our collaboration. So long!"
- Lukas Renlund
You can check out Lukas work here: www.lukasrenlund.com and be sure to like his FB-page as well!
AVAILABLE FOR DIGITAL DOWNLOAD ON DECEMBER 6th 2012
Jerry Lindqvist is releasing his new Two-Track Holiday Single Every Day is Like a Holiday on his own brand new label Good People Listen to Records (GPLTR).
Every Day is Like a
Holiday is produced by Oskar Nyman (TheCajunga,
The Grace) and recorded in Stockholm, Sweden. The Single features friends Nina Lassander (bgvs), Tobias Granbacka (organ, bgvs), Petter Näse (electric guitar), Oskar Nyman (electric guitar, bgvs), Jonas Backman (drums), Mats Ödahl (bass) and Conny Ohlson (pedal steel).
The two songs Every Day is Like a Holiday and Merry
Christmas My Love are both inspired by the Christmas season but they are
not your typical Christmas songs. Instead, they are Jerry’s personal take on the
season. Jerry wrote Merry Christmas My
Love last year and it tells the tale of how Christmas can be celebrated. Every Day is Like a Holiday was written
in late August this year documenting the loss of a family member and how the
Holiday season can be a hard time for anyone who is alone or has recently lost
a close one.
The single cover & design is by Lukas Renlund (www.lukasrenlund.com) and the cover photo was taken in a vintage lamp store in Copenhagen. Special thanks to Hot Kotyr for your time, space and patience!
Photographer Lukas Renlund outside Hot Kotyr in Copenhagen
Every Day is Like a Holiday (GPLTR001) is released worldwide for digital download on December 6th 2012 at iTunes, Amazon, Spotify...
Jerry Lindqvist & The Grace had a bloody marvelous little London Tour. Thanks to everyone for coming out to the shows and for making us feel welcome! We will surely be back at some point in time. Thanks also to all the cool venues, promoters and bands that we played with! Special thanks to Henri Växby, Ashley Fayth, James Riley, Geoff Baker and Siomha Brock for helping us out and for your lovely music!
Here's some rad pictures from the tour...
Live at The Troubadour
Live at Dinner With Daisy Club Night @ Jamboree
Jerry w/ Siomha Brock at MAP Studio Café
Live at The Harrison
On the move
...and here's a video of JL & The Grace performing at Dinner With Daisy Club Night @ Jamboree..
We're proud to announce our first ever UK Tour. We will play four shows in London starting on November 8th. Be sure to come out to the shows! Here's the details...
Thu 8th November, The Troubadour, London at 8.00 w/ Siomha Brock, World Soul Fusion
Fri 9th November, MAP Studio Cafe, London at 8.00 w/ Siomha Brock
Sat 10th November, The Harrison, London at 8.00 w/ Geoff Baker & James Riley
Sun 11th November, Dinner With Daisy Club Night at the Jamboree, London at 7.00 w/ Astrakan, Sibylla Meienberg, French for Cartridge...
News on the upcoming Holiday Single coming soon..
//jerry
Ps. Don't miss our Halloween Blues show in Vaasa this Friday at O'Malley's (November 2nd at 23.00)!
Last weekend Jerry and his band The Grace went into the Noisecamp Studios in Turku, Finland and started working on the follow-up album to Rivertown. Oskar Nyman is producing the yet-to-be-titled album that will be released sometime next year. The album will be a great mix of Americana, Country and Classic Rock with all new songs written by Jerry, Joel and Oskar.
See Jerry Lindqvist & The Grace Live in Concert in November
The band will be playing live in November. First up is the Halloween Blues Festival in Vaasa, Finland on November 2nd at O'Malley's, before making their UK debut at The Troubadour in London on November 8th and performing at the Dinner With Daisy Club Night at the Jamboree, London on November 11th. A couple more UK shows will be announced shortly..
Check out these pictures (by Johan Hagström) and videos from our show at Musik & Talang in Vaasa. We had a wonderful time playing and partying with all you music enthusiasts! We'll be back in Vaasa on November 2nd for the Halloween Blues Festival. Can't wait!
Jerry & Fredrik Furu at a M&T panel talking serious business
Here's some live footage from our show at The Doo-Bop Club...
My duet with Paul Oxley, Lucy, You Don't Sing Anymore, has been nominated for Radio Song of The Year in Svenskfinland. Please head over to www.musiktalang.fi and vote! The winner will be announced at the Musik & Talang event in Vaasa on September 21-22 where we are set to perform at The Doo-Bop Club alongside our friends Icons of Elegance and The Northern Governors on Friday, September 21st.
Holiday Single Sessions
This week me and Oskar Nyman (of The Grace) went into the SAE Studio in Stockholm with our drummer friend Jonas Backman to record two Holiday songs that will hopefully be released in time for X-mas. We recorded the tracks, Merry Christmas My Love and Every Day Is Like A Holiday. Can't wait to share these tracks with all you music lovers out there!
Here's some pictures from our show at Bara Vi in Stockholm last week and from the Holiday Single Sessions..
Jerry Lindqvist & The Grace will perform at the music conference
Musik & Talang in Vaasa on September 21st at The Doo-Bop Club along
with our friends Icons of Elegance and The Northern Governors. Showtime:
20.00. For more information please visitwww.musiktalang.fi
Jerry & The Grace are also excited to play their first ever Sweden Show in Stockholm at Bara Vi on September 6th! It will be an acoustic trio evening. Showtime at 20.00. Free Entry! Check out the Facebook event here: www.facebook.com/events/...
Jerry will also be playing a solo set at Ikkuna-Festivaali at Leipätehdas on Friday August 31st in Vaasa. Barbershop and Fat Trio will also be performing and you'll have the great opportunity to get yourself pierced as Vaasan
Lävistyspaja will be at Leipätehdas that very night. How cool is that! Don't miss this spectacular event folks!
It's been a while since the last update from The Grace Camp so here's what's been going on..
We had a great time at Jakobs Dagar in Jakobstad in July. Thank you all for coming out! Tony Laurila was kind enough to send us some photographs that he took of our show at Gågatan.
Good times in Jeppis, photos by Tony Laurila
We're still busy writing new stuff and we hope that we can hit the studio soon for some serious recording sessions. We're also excited about upcoming shows in Finland, Sweden and the UK in the fall. Some dates have already been posted here, check out the upcoming shows section. We hope to announce more shows asap :-)
Stay tuned folks, oh and here's a little pic that our dear Ashley Fayth snapped of Jerry, Oskar and our Danish "brother from another mother" Andreas Larsen at the grand Canadian Music Week adventure in Toronto in March.
We hope that summer finds you well! Jerry had a great couple of shows in Tampere w/ Icons of Elegance and at Nagu Rock last weekend. Thank you all for coming out to the shows!
jerry at O'Connell's in Tampere
The next concert will take place on Jakobs Dagar in Pietarsaari on July 19th at Gågatans Canorama scene at 21.00. Jerry Lindqvist and The Grace will play a full out Country/Rock Electric Show :-) ..So don't miss that one folks!
Jerry & The Grace have also been confirmed for this year's Musik & Talang Music Conference in Vaasa at the ever so great Live Music Venue The Doo-Bop Club on September 21st!
Jerry, Oskar and Joel have been busy writing new material for the follow up album to Rivertown. We had our own small Songwriting Camp in Stockholm, Sweden, where we wrote three new songs that we can't wait to share with the world!
Here's an update from The Grace World Headquarters...
Jerry Lindqvist is set to perform at Nagu Rock on June 16th on, you guessed it, Nagu. Other artists on the bill include The Capital Beat, Ronya, Pointless 80 and Friends With Jackson. You can get your tickets today at www.netticket.fi. Check out the Nagu Rock FB-page here: www.facebook.com.
Jerry was recently a guest on the show Kulturtimmen on Radio Vega, you can listen to the show here (in Swedish) http://areena.yle.fi/radio/1546728
Dancing with April was featured on the Freight Train Boogie Show #163. Listen to it here: www.nodepression.com
Jerry Lindqvist & The Grace had a great time playing in Helsinki, Porvoo and Vaasa (where Jerry played solo). Good times! Thanks to everyone who came out! Also thanks to Icons Of Elegance for letting us join you in Porvoo (see you again in Tampere on June 15th!) and thanks to Cats on Fire for a great night in Vaasa!
JL & The Grace rockin' in Porvoo at Bar Soho (above) and in Helsinki at Henry's Pub (to the left).
Here's a video from Jerry's solo show in Vaasa on May 18th...
We're looking forward to be playing live again in May. Jerry will also be returning to his old hometown of Vaasa to support the great indie band Cats on Fire at Leipätehdas on May 18. Read Cats on Fire's thoughts about the venue here www.catsonfire.net . In Porvoo and Tampere we're playing with the dynamic duo known as Icons of Elegance. The schedule is as follows...
Thursday May 10 - Helatorstai-Klubi w/ Headhearthands @ Henry's Pub - Helsinki
Friday May 11 - Bar Soho w/ Icons of Elegance - Porvoo
Friday May 18 - Jerry Lindqvist (solo) w/ Cats on Fire @ Leipätehdas - Vaasa
Thursday May 24 - Jerry Lindqvist (solo) guest appearance @ School of Rock Concert @ Klubi - Turku
Friday June 15 - Jerry Lindqvist (solo) w/ Icons of Elegance @ O'Connell's - Tampere
Here's a few updates from The Grace Headquarters...
The leading Finnish Weekly in North America, Vapaa Sana, wrote about my grand visit to the Canadian Music Week in Toronto in their 13/2012 issue alongside the other Finnish acts Neufvoin and Felix Zenger. I evidently stated that I'm too old for Pop so that's why I'm a Country musician, man I must've been tired after my flight :-)
The song True Professional that I co-wrote with the talented Kevin Charge and Duncan Townsend in Austria last year is coming out on Duncan's upcoming album Up Sides Down (out on Familyhouse Records on April 20). I'm very excited about that and I highly recommend you all check out Duncan Townsend at www.duncantownsend.com and you can pre-order the album here: www.amazon.de
We had a wonderful band rehearsal with The Grace last Sunday. The band sounds great so you all should definitely come out to the shows in Helsinki (Henry's Pub, Thursday May 10) and Porvoo (Bar Soho, Friday May 11) next month! I'm looking forward to playing with these crazy cats once again.
I had a wonderful week in Toronto at CMW together with Oskar N, Ashley Fayth, Andreas and Nanna Larsen. We played a couple of showcases and one really cool gig out in Oakville at The Moonshine Café. Andreas Larsen was kind to join me and Oskar onstage and Ashley also joined us for some sweet harmonies at The Cadillac Lounge and at The Central.
In Oakville we met up with the lovely Elyse Simpson of Jangle Records!
We also found the time to take the grey hound out to Niagara Falls one day. The weather was great as was the Niagara Falls experience.
Back home in Finlandia we got some shows coming up. On Thursday May 10 Jerry Lindqvist and The Grace will be rocking downtown Helsinki at Henry's Pub. On May 11 we will be supporting Icons of Elegance at Bar Soho in Porvoo. On June 15 I will play a solo show supporting Icons of Elegance in Tampere at O'Connell's. Check out Icons of Elegance here www.iconsofelegance.com, they got a new album out now :-)
Although the US part of the International Songwriters Tour did not work out as planned for The Grace, we're still happy that 1/3 of The Grace Trio is rockin' USA along with Tiffany Shea, Nanna Larsen and Ashley Fayth. We're also super proud to be Featured Artists on voyageairguitar.com! Here's a video from Nashville, TN and Hotel Indigo with our guitar slinger Oskar Nyman, Ashley Fayth and Andreas Larsen performing Ashley's wonderful tune Oscar. Thank you Voyage-Air Guitar!
Jerry will be joining forces with Oskar and the rest of the IST gang in Toronto, Canada next week for Canadian Music Week...
Showcase Schedule:
Galaxie Presents:
Wednesday March 21, 2012 @ 12:00AM Cadillac Lounge, 1296 Queen St. West 416-536-7717
19+ All wristbands accepted
CMW Showcase:
Wednesday March 21, 2012 @ 1:00AM Central, 603 Markham St 416-913-4586
19+ All wristbands accepted
Also, have a look at this bad boy. Jerry's very own guitar strap made by Wear it Out Manuel (wearitoutmanuel.com) who has also designed for legends such as Johnny Cash, Hank Williams (all three), Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles etc.. A nice little group to be a part of :-)
Bad news from The Grace Camp. Due to reasons beyond our control The Detroit border control did not allow us entry into the US. We are terribly saddened to report that we’re unable to partake in the US section of The International Songwriters Tour.
However, we’re looking forward to the Canadian Music Week in Toronto, Canada on March 21-25. Also, Thank you to all the promoters and venues for having faith in us. We’ll see you next time!
A wonderful evening awaits if you take the chance to hear these 5 singer-songwriters/ bands from around the globe. Following their Manhattan CMJ Music Marathon concerts together last fall, they have joined up to tour the Southeast, culminating in showcasing at SXSW and Canadian Music Week in Toronto. Do your soul a favor and spend the evening with them, you'll be glad you did!
- Robert Singerman(Entertainment Manager: REM, Violent Femmes)
Hello music lovers!
Here are some news on our upcoming Invasion of North America. I met up with Simon Ventus of Musik & Talang Music Conference and discussed drinking the world's most expensive coffee and the International Songwriters' Tour. Check out the clip below (in Swedish).. blog.musiktalang.fi
The date and venue for my Showcase at Canadian Music Fest is now confirmed..
Jerry Lindqvist CMF Showcase:
Wednesday March 21, 2012 @ 1:00AM Central, 603 Markham St 416-913-4586
19+ All wristbands accepted
