Blue Bird Festival 2026 @ Porgy & Bess

Performers

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  Sondre Lerche

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  Dave Lofts
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  Elín Hall

  At the edge of two worlds lies Iceland. And somewhere between music and film moves Elín Hall. She creates emotional, cinematic pop that takes its time and gives space to unfold. No big gestures, just a carefully built atmosphere where relationships, identity and the way we see each other come into play. Music shaped by mood, story and a voice that holds it all together. Elín Hall gained major attention with her album Heyríst í mér?, which earned her several awards in Iceland and confirmed her position on the local scene. In recent years, she has entered a new chapter – beginning to write in English and expanding her music towards an international audience. Her current work explores themes of identity, self-perception and the way we are seen by others – who we are and who we become in someone else’s eyes. Alongside her music, she has also received acclaim as an actress, winning several prestigious awards for her lead role in When the Light Breaks. A strong voice and storytelling that resonate just as much through headphones as they do live.

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  Flora Hibberd

  Perhaps it’s the geographical variance that has found its way into Flora Hibberd’s first full-length studio album that makes her sound so unmistakable. Born in England but currently living in Paris, ‘Swirl’ (2025) was recorded in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and therefore combines many stylistic elements into an impressive sound vocabulary that Hibberd knows how to play with. As if she had absorbed entire encyclopaedias of pop, rock, and folk music, her compositions are sublime and varied, displaying compositional maturity and a special knack for the right instrumentation in balanced arrangements. Producer Shane Leonard is responsible for them and was able to engage drummer JT Bates (Bon Iver, Taylor Swift) and pedal steel guitarist Ben Lester (Sufjan Stevens) for the album. The result is an accomplished combo that knows how to bring out every nuance of Hibberd’s stylistic repertoire, be it cosmopolitan jazz-pop, swinging rock jams, or melancholic indie folk with reminiscences of Elliott Smith and Nick Drake. A timeless debut that she will be presenting live on stage with us.

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