{"id":23835,"date":"2011-12-09T14:01:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T14:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.svalbardblues.com\/dsb\/artists\/bjorn-berge\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T09:17:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:17:43","slug":"bjorn-berge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.svalbardblues.com\/en\/dsb\/artists\/bjorn-berge\/","title":{"rendered":"Bj\u00f8rn Berge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">It&#8217;s special to finally be able to welcome Bj\u00f8rn Berge to Dark Season Blues. Longyearbyen Blues Club was founded a few days after a concert with Bj\u00f8rn Berge here in town in August 2000.   <\/p>\n\n<p>The Haugesund native has been a one-man band since he made his album debut with \u201cBlues Hit Me\u201d in 1999. He made an exception with the electric trio album \u201cWho Else?\u201d in 2019, but earlier this year he returned to the acoustic landscape &#8211; with and without a band &#8211; with \u201cHeavy Gauge\u201d. But that doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s backing away from the need for punch, no matter what the guitar looks like or how many strings it has. Berge mixes different genres, from pop to funk, from rock to blues. It sounds fierce and raw, hard and soft. This mix has earned him two Spellemann awards and the blues prize at the Notodden Blues Festival. He has released 12 studio albums in addition to a live album. As a live artist, he is just as active in Europe as in Norway. Now he can be experienced at Dark Season Blues.          <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-background\" style=\"background-color:#f8f8f8;font-size:12px\"><strong>  Dark Season Blues\u00a92021  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"BJ\u00d8RN BERGE-The Wrangler Man\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iuMxtVn6RO0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s special to finally be able to welcome Bj\u00f8rn Berge to Dark Season Blues. 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