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17th of january 2012: A new year with clean slates har begun. This year I have promised myself to dive more into jazz, play a little less live, do more studiowork and practice more. 2011 was a hectic year for me. Lots of great gigs, experiences and exiting studiowork. I hope that 2012 will be equally diverse, challenging, rewarding and fun.

I have lots of plans on my table (as usual) and I hope some of them will come through.

Studiowise I have some exiting artists coming in to record at my studio. I really feel fortunate and priviligied to have these artists to come and work with me. I will update you guys as the recording proceeds:)

21st of december 2011: Sorry for the lack of updates, been busy (as usual) on the musical front. Lots of gigs and studiowork (and thank god for that!!!).

My friend Reidar Næss released his CD (Which I produced) called "Byen Min" this week. We are very happy with the result. Now it´s up to the public to judge us. Tense times... but good times:)

Gigging a lot this christmas. With Rebbe´s experience (An one-off gig), Kjetil Linnes and Ivan Jonas. Looking forward to all gigs. I play to live and live to play!

Santa got me a Les Paul Godltop for christmas this year. Will be grand to roadtest it on the upcoming gigs:)

I wish you all a merry christmas and a happy new, musical, year.

23rd of october 2011: Been VERY busy musically since the last update. Too many gigs to mention. You can check my gigs section to see what I´ve been up to since the last update.

This weekend has been very rich on experiences. First of all, for the first time in my life I´ve played at a funeral. That was an experience I never will forget. Pushed some serious boundaries and really experienced the power of music. I am very honored to be a part of the great mans farewell.

Furthermore I did two gigs with my "day job" at a trade fair in Hammerfest. I am very happy that we now have performance duties at Hammerfest kulturskole. With my colleagues there, I get to do gigs I NEVER would have done as a freelancer. And I mean this in a good way. I love my job!

Saturday night was a total blast with Kjetil Linnes Band at Redrum Bar & Cafe. Packed venue, great vibe and a killer band. Oh, joy! I really love to play with this gang:)

19th of september 2011: Another great weekend for me with 2 great gigs (and a little jamsession last thursday)

Worked with pop genious, Kjetil Linnes & Band, this weekend. We played at Barila in Alta Friday and Saturday. Full house, a band on fire and a man with a mission in front. It was a total blast and an honour to be a part of this. I really believe and hope that Kjetil will reach out the a broad audience with his music. I am glad to be a part of it. Its a real pro package with lights & sound delivered by Roy Gunnar Løksa and Andreas Hagstrøm. The band is: Kjetil Linnes - Voc/Ac Guit, Jørn Sjøgren - Voc/Guit, Odd - Erling Simensen - Bass, Kai Henning Skimelid - Drums and myself on Guitar.

Met a lot of old and new friends and shared lots of laughs and good stories. Also got to hear my friends in "Intet Sett, Intet hørt" at Han Skjenke. A really potent power duo:)

Today is studio day and some preparations to the upcoming fridays After Work session. More on that later.

4th of september 2011: Holy crap, what a weekend!!! Had two gigs with Ivan Jonas this weekend. One was a private arrangement (for a bunch of nurses:) at Turistua and another at Nostalgia. Both in Hammerfest. What a blast, fabulous gigs:) The first gig was only me and Ivan, on the Nostalgia gig we had several guestmusicians with us. Ulf Hustad, Torbjørn Engan and Jens Andersen. I knew and have played with Ulf and Torbjørn before, but Ivan met them on the gig. Jens was a new accointance for all of us. So its safe to say that this was Hammefests newest band:) They all delivered their best and the evening at Nostalgia was great fun. Thanks to Bettina and Uwe for having us, the great audience for supporting us and to Torbjørn, Jens and Ulf for being sporty and gig with us.

Earlier that day me and Ivan was in my studio with Kjell Arnesen. We had a great time laying down some harmony vocals and keyboards. Ivan and Kjell delivered the goods!

30th of august 2011: Finally landed in Hammerfest. Had a blast playing with Kurt Ivar Strøm & Transportbandet last friday. 800+ people, great weather, good vibes, nice people etc. A very good night. It was also both a pleasure and an honour to gig with Steinar Albrigtsen, Monica Nordli, Andy Nesblom and Thor Hauge at the same event. I really had a blast:)

The day after I had the pleasure to play with Jan Arild Sørnes & Kjell Rune Myrland at Rica Alta. Great audience there. It was an amazing vibe there with a listening audience and musicians that sang and played their asses off. I felt really lucky to be a part of that gig:)

Later the same saturday I went down to "Han Skjenke" and had the pleasure of gigging with Lasse Ingebrigtsen & Steinar Henriksen. Wow.... Great cats! As usual Lasse sang like a god and set his guitar on fire. A great artist! Steinar was fun to see again. 20 years since we last shared a stage and a beer. An incredible player and great person.

What a weekend I had in Alta. Good times:)

Now it´s teaching time at my day job and lots of studiowork ahead. The upcoming weekend I will perform in Hammerfest with my good friend Ivan Jonas. Looking forward to hang and play with that madman:)

Had some great days in Oslo with above mentioned Kurt Ivar and his lovely girlfriend Kristin. They have an amazing place at Solvik, right outside of Oslo. Relaxing to hang at the beach there and we also had a boat trip to hovedøya where we wined and dined in the sun. Good times:)

Next week its back to may "day" job, teaching guitarstudents again. Looking forward to that. And I also look forward to what seems to be a creative months ahead. Teaching, recording, producing, gigging and also time off with my girlfriend, family and friends.

Good to be in Hammerfest:)

21st of august 2011: Had a busy week at Gålå. It was great fun but LOT of work. 9 hrs rehearsals in 4 days for a 3,5 hour play is quite hard work. So to all of you out there that claims that musicians don´t work for a living:)

Met a lot of fantastic people and Gålå is a very scenic place to be. Unfortunately some of us got sick while we were up there. Something in the water/food etc. I am getting better now.

Today I am heading to meet my very good friend Kurt Ivar Strøm and his lovely Kristin. It will be great:)

15th of august 2011: Preparing to my gigs in southern Norway. Next week I will be at Gålåvatn with the production "Peer Gynt for Alle". It is 30 music pieces to learn, I´ve gotten them written out, but I am not the best reader:). Luckily I have spent almost 1,5 year producing the CD with the music, so I have big chunks of it stored in my (fading) memory.

Will be great to see my friends in the orchestra again and spend some time in the lovely scenery that Gudbrandalen provides. Maybe I will take a trip to Vinstra and meet up with some ol´buddies there too:)

14th of august 2011: Lots of stuff on my musical plate these days. Next week I will be at Gålåvatnet rehearsing and performing the play "Peer For Alle", written by Malte Winje. I produced a CD related to this project that was released in February this year. Looking forward to hang and play with my friends and colleagues in the ensemble.

I will also do a couple of gigs down south while I am there. I will tell more after the gigs are done.

Studiowise its been a hectic year. Nowadays I work on a CD with a Hammerfest based singer/songwriter called Reidar Næss. It´s very good stuff and it is a pleasure to work with him. More on this project later.

14th of august 2011: Welcome to my new and re-designed website. I have converted from my database driven site to a straight HTML baset site.Back to the stone age.This is intended to be a nofrills site with no design bells and whistles with focus on info and updates.

I will try to keep this site updated on my musical activities both in the studio and on stage. Music is my life and life is good:)

You can still check out my old webpage here: www.rebbestad.no/music