On Friday 17th January, the Zanzibar Club will be playing host to some great young talent within its walls as bands such as Electric Lips, The Inkhearts will be joining the cracking Kalandra.
Fronted by Katrine Ødegård Stenbekk, Kalandra are a six-piece folk rock band that have made Liverpool their home and contains musicians from England, The Isle of Man and Norway. It is this Norwegian influence, carrying on a wonderful tradition of musicians such as Kaya Herstad Carney, Grethe Borsum and Ragz Nordset from that proud country that have made the city even more exotic and fable like than ever before.
The music Kalandra produces draws influences from Norse and Celtic folk songs with a powerful mix of unforgettable melodies, dark themes and heavy arrangements and the six-piece, Andreas Voie Juliebø, Hamish Gore, Jogeir Mæland, Florian Winter, Helen Morrisson and Katrine Stenbekk have been making all the right noises and are surely destined to add their names to growing influence that the Nordic lands have in the history of Liverpool.
In an evening which promises some great music from the bands of tomorrow, Kalandra are a band to keep an eye out for.
Ian D. Hall