Tickets are available on our sales page at Hoopla: dsb.hoopla.no
For those who have purchased an accommodation package from Svalbard Adventures or Hurtigruten, you will receive your own code from them for access to ticket sales. This also applies to members of Longyearbyen Bluesklubb who receive their own code via Gnist.
The price difference between the program and Hoopla is the ticket fee to Hoopla.
Tickets are non-refundable.
The right of withdrawal does not apply to the purchase of tickets, nor to incorrect purchases.
The tickets you buy are part of an overall festival. Any program changes/artist cancellations do not provide a basis for refund or compensation. DSB reserves the right to make changes to the program. Purchased tickets can only be refunded if the event is canceled in its entirety, but not canceled as a result of Force Majeure or cancellations from one or more of the artists.
Resale of tickets.
In the event of resale of ordinary tickets, the original ticket buyer is responsible for passing on information sent out by the organizer.
Discounted/Special deal/Early bird/Sponsor tickets are personal and cannot be resold!
Evening passes are not available for Dark Season Blues 2026
Why don’t we sell evening passes for Dark Season Blues anymore?
We’ve received some questions about why we aren’t offering evening passes during this year’s festival, and we’d like to explain:
In the past, we’ve offered evening passes that were valid for the evening concerts—including those taking place simultaneously on different stages. These passes were reasonably priced and offered great flexibility, but they also posed significant challenges for us as organizers.
These are the main reasons why we have decided to stop offering evening sessions:
- Limited capacity at venues: Previously, we had several venues that could accommodate about 200 audience members. Now we have 1–2 such venues, while other venues have much lower capacity (50–70 people). This creates a major imbalance when passholders are free to choose where they want to go, and we end up with empty halls in some places and full houses in others—even when we expect the opposite.
- Complex ticket logistics: We can’t know in advance where passholders will go, so we have to set aside tickets “just in case.” This means we sell fewer tickets than we could, and in the worst-case scenario, we have to turn people away—even though there are actually seats available.
- Financially and practically challenging: For evening passes to work under the current circumstances, they would have to be much more expensive and, at the same time, sold in limited quantities. This would make the system both costly and inaccessible—and still difficult to administer.
- Past experience: In the years we’ve chosen not to hold evening events, we’ve received positive feedback from both the public and venues. The events have been more predictable, and the execution has been better.
We fully understand that many people miss the flexibility that evening sessions offered—it made it easier to wander around and make choices as you went along. But it is precisely this flexibility that has created the biggest challenges for us.
We hope you’ll understand that we’ve had to make a change, and we promise to continue doing our best to provide great concert experiences—no matter which ticket you buy!
