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The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2015 in Swedish music.

Events

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February

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  • 7 – The first semi-final of Melodifestivalen was arranged. The three next semi-finals took place on February 14, 21, and 28.[1]

March

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  • 7 – The Melodifestivalen second chance took place on March 7.
  • 14 – The final of Melodifestivalen was carried out on March 14, 2015.[2] Måns Zelmerlöw's song "Heroes" won the competition.

April

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  • 25 – Gamlestaden Jazzfestival started in Gothenburg (April 25 – May 2).[3]

May

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June

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October

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  • 12 – The 30th Stockholm International Composer Festival opens at the Stockholms Konserthus, focusing on the work of Lili and Nadia Boulanger.[6]

December

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Album and singles releases

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January

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Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
30 Pinball Marius Neset with Ivo Neame, Petter Eldh, and Anton Eger ACT Music Produced by Marius Neset and Anton Eger [8]

February

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Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
17 Picture You The Amazing with Reine Fiske Partisan Records [9]

March

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Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
6 Trees Of Light Anders Jormin / Lena Willemark / Karin Nakagawa ECM Records Produced by Manfred Eicher [10]
22 Hit The Wall! Mats Gustafsson together with Thurston Moore Smalltown Superjazzz [11]
23 Lucidity Atomic Jazzland Recordings Produced by Atomic, co-producer Sten Nilsen [12]
27 Young At Heart Ida Sand ACT Music Produced by Nils Landgren, executive producer Siggi Loch [13]

May

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Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
19 Firehouse Gard Nilssen's Acoustic Unity with Petter Eldh and André Roligheten Clean Feed [14]

August

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Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
21 Silver Mountain Elephant9 with Reine Fiske Rune Grammofon [15]
28 Just The Two Of Us Cæcilie Norby and Lars Danielsson ACT Music [16]

September

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Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
25 Allas Sak Dungen Smalltown Supersound [17]
25 Postcard from a Painted Lady Kikki Danielsson Lionheart/Universal Produced by Sören Karlsson [18]

October

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Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
23 Redo att gå Sönder Bo Kaspers Orkester Columbia [19]

November

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Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
27 Melt Brian Chippendale / Mats Gustafsson / Massimo Pupillo Trost [20]

Deaths

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July

  • 13Bengt-Arne Wallin, Swedish composer, arrangeur, trumpeter, and flugelhornist (born 1926).

November

  • 5Kjell Öhman, jazz pianist, hammond organist, and accordionist prostate cancer(born 1943)

December

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Artisterna i Melodifestivalen 2016: Hela listan – så blir deltävlingarna". SVT. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  2. ^ "Sweden's Melodifestivalen dates, changes and presenters announced". Eurovision.tv. Archived from the original on 2015-03-31. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  3. ^ "GMLSTN JAZZ 2015". GmlStnJazz.com. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  4. ^ Om Malmö Live. Archived 2015-08-26 at the Wayback Machine Malmö Live. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  5. ^ "Bråvalla 2015". SongKick.com. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  6. ^ http://www.konserthuset.se/Default.aspx?MenuId=84&InformationPageItemId=354&Kategori=In+english Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine "Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra presents fascinating 2015-16 programme"]. Accessed 24 February 2016
  7. ^ "Martin vann i Globen". svt.se. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  8. ^ "Marius Neset: Pinball - CD". Musical reviews. ACT Music. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  9. ^ "The Amazing – Picture You". consequence.net. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  10. ^ "Anders Jormin / Lena Willemark / Karin Nakagawa – Trees Of Light". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  11. ^ "Mats Gustafsson & Thurston Moore – Hit The Wall!". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  12. ^ Lucidity - Atomic at AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
  13. ^ "Ida Sand: Young At Heart - CD". ACT Music. Retrieved 2017-01-02.
  14. ^ "Firehouse (Gatefold LP) – Gard Nilssen's acoustic Unity". Cleanfeed-Records.com. Retrieved 2015-02-16.
  15. ^ "Rune Grammofon". Rune Grammofon. Retrieved 2015-08-04.
  16. ^ "Cæcilie Norby just the two of us – CD". ACT Music. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  17. ^ "Dungen – Allas Sak". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  18. ^ Håkan Steen (22 September 2017). "Kikki sjunger fantastiskt" (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  19. ^ "Bo Kaspers Orkester – Redo att gå sönder". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  20. ^ "Brian Chippendale / Mats Gustafsson / Massimo Pupillo – Melt". AllMusic.com. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  21. ^ Weibull, Hedvig; Haimi, Rebecca; Fossbo, Hannes (2015-12-23). "Sångaren Peter Lundblad död". SVT (in Swedish). Retrieved 2016-02-21.