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- About DSBWelcome to the Dark Season Blues – the world’s northernmost blues festival The festival is an annual event in late October at 78 degrees north in Longyearbyen (Svalbard), and marks the beginning of the dark season when daylight and the sun is about to leave Svalbard for four long winter months. The first Dark Season Blues festival was arranged in 2003 and will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2012. It started out as a small intimate festival, and proudly presented 15 bands spread on 17 events in 2010. The beginning of the dark season, with its blue light, is perfect for those blue notes and provides a unique atmosphere. The festival can offer four great days with local, Norwegian and international blues artists spread across most of Longyearbyen’s venues.Vis Dark Season Blues i et større kartThe festival includes blues lunch and a blues dinner, and has events at the school, in the church, and also in a Sami tent. Even the kindergarten is visited by our artists. It all ends with a blues jam where the audience gets the opportunity to play together with their blues hero. The intimate local conditions mean that artists, audiences and…
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Dark Season Blues 2013
A visit to Svalbard and Longyearbyen in connection with Dark Season Blues offers more than a weekend filled with top-quality blues concerts. We guarantee many other wonderful experiences and impressions. Come and enjoy the raw and beautiful Arctic nature, the magic Northern Lights, and the exotic wildlife.
Thank you all!
The 10th Dark Season Blues festival is over – and what a fantastic 4 days of great blues it has been! The festival was an immense success and we want to thank each and every one of you for taking part in this year’s festival, and to all of you who made the festival possible.
Main sponsor of the Dark Season Blues
The Organizer
Longyearbyen Blues Club is the organizer of the Dark Season Blues Spitsbergen.
Deals on travel and accommodation
Festival deals on travel and accommodation for the Dark Season Blues festival. Also offers on a variety of activities and tours in Longyearbyen, Svalbard.
Northern Lights and Svalbard
Experience the Northern Light(Aurora Borealis) on Svalbard during the Dark Season Blues.Longyearbyen and Svalbard's location, just below the magnetic polar cusp, provides perfect conditions for seeing the Northern Lights.
Polar bears on Svalbard
Polar bears are the largest of the bear species. It has all the Arctic as its habitat and has for many become the symbol of the Arctic wilderness and Svalbard. The Barents Sea population that includes Svalbard consists of about 3,000 polar bears.
Longyearbyen, Svalbard
The festival is an annual event in late October at 78 degrees north in Longyearbyen. It marks the beginning of the dark season when daylight and the sun is about to leave Svalbard for four long winter months.
Festival offers on accommodation
Basecamp Spitsbergen offers festival deals on accommodation at the Trapper's Hotel. They also offer a variety of activities and tours in Longyearbyen, Svalbard.
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