Thomas Dybdahl

Let the Christmas peace sink in with magical Thomas Dybdahl in Store VEGA

True to tradition, Thomas Dybdahl sets the Christmas hearts on fire in VEGA!

Since 2004, Thomas Dybdahl has enriched VEGA's Christmas spirit with an eminent Norwegian live presence. This year is no exception, when the songwriter returns for the twentieth time. With him he has his stunning and versatile back catalogue of heartwarming songs with melodic backdrops of singing guitars and soaring strings.

Thomas Dybdahl debuted in 2002 with the album That Great October Sound and the following year received the Norwegian Spellemansprisen (Norway's answer to a Grammy) for his work. And since then, he hasn't really managed to set a tone wrong.

The releases have been diverse, ranging from Nordic melancholic Americana on the debut to full-blooded soul and funk on the 2020 album Fever. Here Dybdahl has left the acoustic guitar in the guitar case and has instead let the electric guitar be the leader.

Fever received 5 stars in GAFFA, and the unique guitarist's latest album Teenage Astronauts (2024) received four stars in GAFFA and was described with the words:

“Teenage Astronauts is a space journey against time that sends us into a youthful time bubble where immortality and grief go hand in hand (...) The album is therefore an offer of a little time travel that also offers unappreciably good sound from the carefully tuned compositions and, in many ways, pain relief on post-appropriation.”

On 15 December, Thomas Dybdahl will collect the best of the best from his acclaimed and acclaimed back catalogue and will once again deliver an extremely present Big Vega concert. I don't think the evening will include a Christmas song or two.