Herborg Kråkevik and the Trondheim Soloists reunite and celebrate the 25th anniversary of one of the most popular albums in Norwegian history!

When "Kråkevik's Songbook" was released in 2000, with beautiful interpretations of songs such as "Den fyrste song", "Til ungdommen" and "Blåmann", it was an enormous success.

Herborg Kråkevik was called Norway's number one songbird, and was voted Player of the Year on the grounds that "never has the Norwegian song treasure been interpreted in a finer way." New versions of songs by, among others, Arnulf Øverland, Nordahl Grieg and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson were recorded with the Trondheim Soloists, and sold an incredible 250,000 copies, making "Kråkevik's Songbook" one of the best-selling Norwegian albums ever.

- The interest at the time was surprisingly great, says Herborg Kråkevik himself.

- I started the project because I had promised my father to record these old songs. But as we started, things took shape through working in the studio with TrondheimSolistene, it grew into something even more important and artistically exciting. Nevertheless, we were taken aback by the commercial success, and so was the record company. They ran out of CDs after two weeks, recalls Kråkevik, who believes the release had enormous significance for both her and TrondheimSolistene.

-It meant that we reached a much larger and broader audience than we had had before.

Kråkevik says that she usually prefers to do completely new things rather than look back, but that the anniversary has made her remember how important it is to keep these songs alive.

- There are always new generations who don't know these songs. In the years that have passed since 2000, I keep meeting people who have developed a relationship with the songs precisely through the record, which makes me very proud. That is precisely why this anniversary has become much more exciting than I had first thought, says Kråkevik.

This summer, Kråkevik and the Trondheim Soloists will meet for three concerts: During Olavsfest, the Bergen International Festival and Vårsøghelga. Then we will get a chance to hear the classic interpretations again - but maybe we will also hear something new?

-Yes, there will definitely be several new songs during the concert, reveals Kråkevik.

-For "Kråkevik's songbook", I chose the songs that I liked best at the time. But over the course of 25 years, I have found other songs that I have grown to love. It is about finding what I call "songbook" songs. Traditionally, they have a formula with verse upon verse upon verse instead of verse-chorus, but that is changing as we approach more recent times. So the new songs can be old, but also newer pop songs that have achieved a kind of "songbook" quality through their widespread use, for example at holidays or important life celebrations, explains Kråkevik.