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A disaster meeting was called yesterday due to the crisis in the dance band industry.
– It is an entire cultural elite that perishes, says singer Andreas Olsson in Sannex.
Every year, three million tiles are worn out in national parks and urban hotels throughout Sweden. Soccer has 2.1 million viewers a year, by comparison. This according to the dance band expert. Thomas deutgen.
Last week, hopes for new concerts during the pandemic were dashed, the crowd cap held at 50.
– We don’t have projects when we play a month or two months a year when you tour, but we tour all the time. We feed on this all the time, he says. Andreas Olsson In Sannex.
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Andreas Olsson, singer of the dance band Sannex.
Yesterday a meeting was called between the organizers and various bands known as Streaplers, Matz Bladh, Swedish Dance Mafia, Donnez and Sannex.
– Even the Streaplers who attended the match have played for 60 years and say: “We have until the turn of the year. Then it is no longer possible. “
– It’s the same for us. It’s crazy, a disaster. Now it is no longer possible.
He has played for Sannex since 2007, now he’s been forced to ask his band members to find new jobs.
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Dance band expert Thomas Deutgen.
The participants in yesterday’s meeting want to call the Minister of Culture Amanda lind – along with all dance bands in Sweden – to get specific support for dance bands.
– Dance is a great popular movement that I think the state has very little knowledge of. But if there is something you absolutely must not do during this time, it is dance. It’s the safest way to get a crown, because the whole thing involves you dancing with strangers. “I don’t think there will be dancing in Sweden until next summer at the earliest,” says Thomas Deutgen, dance band expert and editor-in-chief of Får jag lov magazine.
Will the dance bands survive until next summer?
– I know bands that stopped their buses and fired, many have started working with completely different things to bring food to the table.
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The Sannex dance band.
– People like to talk from the state side about Folkets Park and Swedish cultural heritage and get a romantic twinkle in their eyes when they talk about colored lanterns, living flames and stuff. But it must be a test if you want to keep this tradition of the Swedish dance band. It is still anonymous in the center of power, because the dance bands get bigger the further you get from Stockholm.
What would you like to say to the Minister of Culture today?
– It’s about time to look over the colored lanterns before the lights go out, because then it’s too late for a turn, says Thomas Deutgen.
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