Soulful Voices Choirs in Concert May 13th 2023
Hope everyone is having a wonderful summer!
After my computer crashed the first time I tried to put this blog together, here’s finally the Soulful Voices concert recap! (And if anyone needs to know how to fix a computer.. call me (actually, don’t :)
However, if you wanna sing with us this fall, don’t forget to register!
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Press play on the red button below to listen to a mix from Soulful Voices, the adult choir.
Press play on the red button below to listen to Soulful Kids.
Press play to listen to a mix of Soulful Teens performing.
Listen to all Soulful Voices Choirs sing Hero together.
The fantastic musicians: Manfred Hulebo, Filip Tegerstrand, Jonatan Lundin and Simon Liljeblad.
Press play on the red button below to listen to all choirs sing Pinks Never Gonna Not Dance Again.
I had so much fun, and I’m so proud of all the wonderful singers in all the different choirs in Soulful Voices Choirs. Thank you all! A special thank you to Hammarbykyrkan who let us sing in your beautiful church, and to Joel who always does an excellent job as a sound engineer.
Have a beautiful summer!
Love,
Johanna
Photographer: Sebastian Ekman
Soulful Voices Choirs IN Concert NOVEMBER 2022
We had another super fun fall together in Soulful Voices Choirs, and we ended it with a soled out concert on November 19th. Here’s the highlights from our concert. Enjoy!
Soundcheck before the concert, and the temperature was freezing, but as soon as the audience filled up the place, we weren’t cold anymore.
Opening the doors to the audience and then it’s showtime.
Press play on the video below to listen to bits from Soulful Voices.
Press play on the video below to listen to “Step By Step”.
Listen to Soulful Voices sing our Ed Sheeran Medley on the video below.
Press play on the video below to listen to Soulful Kids!
Soulful Teens and Soulful Kids singing together.
Press play on the video below to listen to Soulful Voices and Soulful Teens when they sing Alicia Keys song “Underdog”.
Press play on the video below to listen to Soulful Teens.
Filip sounding as great as usual.
Anton, another one of our great singers.
Amy singing Kiss From A Rose so beautifully.
The band: Benjamin Koverman on guitar, Axel Karlsson on keys, Per “Perlan” Hansson on bass and Simon Liljeblad on drums.
Press play on the video below to listen to “Om du bar mina skor/ Walk A Mile In My Shoes” with Soulful Kids and Soulful Voices.
No concert without confetti! Press play on the video below to listen to our grand finale songs: “We’re All In This Together” and “Celebration”.
Thank you everyone in Soulful Voices Choirs for being a part of this, and thank you everyone who came out to listen to our concert. If you’re interested in joining on of our groups, read more about the adult choir click here and to read more about our kids choir and teen choir, click here
See you all next time!
Love,
Johanna
Photographer: Sebastian Ekman
Here’s finally the highlights from Soulful Voices spring concert on May 14th. After every concert I say: “that was our best concert “, and this time was no different. We’ve captured bits from almost every song, and I’ve posted the songs in the order of the concert, so if you missed our concert you could almost pretend you were there. Here’s a lot of material, so pop the popcorn and get comfortable and ready to watch “Soulful Voices in Concert May 14th 2022”.
The choirs were accompanied by the fantastic musicians: Manfred Hulebo on piano, Filip Ericsson on guitar, Per “Perlan” Hansson on bass and Simon Liljeblad on drums.
Click on the video below to listen to “My Love Is Your Love”.
Click on the video below to listen to “That’s What I believe”
Click to listen to Soulful Kids version of “the Family Madrigal” song.
Click below to listen to “Vi har aldrig haft något annat val”.
Soulful Teens joined Soulful Kids to sing the song “Ja må du leva idag”. Click on the video below to listen.
Click on the videos below to listen Soulful Teens sing “Come Along” and “Pay Attention”.
Click on the video below to listen to Soulful Voices version of Adele’s “Easy On Me” and Pink’s “What About Us”.
Click on the videos to listen to Soulful Kids singing “Låt kärleken slå rot”, “Chiquitita” and “Lyckligt slut”.
Below you can listen to Soulful Voices singing Mary J. Blige’s “Be Without You”.
Listen to Soulful Teens singing Million To One and King of Anything.
I Love this song “Stand Up” from the movie “Harriet”. Soulful Voices and Soulful Teens sang it so beautifully together.
We had our concert on the same day as the Eurovision Song Contest, so of course we did a medley in that theme with a little bit of singalong too.
On the video below, Soulful Voices sings Imagine Dragons “Believer”.
“Never Lost”, a song written Chris Brown, Steven Furtick and Tiffany Hammer in 2020.
Getting ready for the grand finale with their heart shaped balloons.
Listen to all our choirs singing a medley from the musical West Side Story.
Listen to our encore, a mash-up with “Where Is the Love” and “You’re the Voice”
A big thank you to every choir member, the fantastic musicians and everyone who came out to listen to our concert. What an amazing audience, thank you so much for cheering us on. If you wanna join any of our groups when we start up again in the fall of 2022, just click right here to read more and enroll.
All photos by Benjamin Samsundin
On November 20th, for the first time in two years, we could finally perform our Soulful Voices concert. We had so much fun, and here’s some highlights from our concert.
Press play to listen to “Because You Loved Me”.
The fabulous musicians, Magnus Ahlgren, Tobias Tagesson, Petter Alin and Axel Karlsson.
SOULFUL KIDS
Listen to Soulful Kids on the video below.
SOULFUL TEENS
Listen to Soulful Teens on the video below.
So many talented singers, and so many beautiful solos! Press play to listen to the videos below.
There’s something about music that brings people together, no matter how old or young you are. Listen to “Just Sing” below, one of my favorite moments from this concert.
Every concert needs a little confetti.
Listen to “Into the Unknown” below.
A big thank you to all of the wonderful singers in Soulful Voices, the musicians and all of you who came out to listen to us! We hope to see you all again next time.
To join one of our choirs, click here!
Hi there!
Tomorrow is new years eve, and before I’m all set for 2020 I wanna say goodbye properly to 2019 with a top twenty from the year. I’m actually not ranking the moments, but my number one is my number one!
20. Cali
Sunny Cali never lets me let down. I always love to go back to the city of angels, to go to concerts, see my friends and get musically inspired.
19. So many fun moments with this one, I could pick any!
18. Singing for George Clooney
I know this is not George in this picture, cause it’s actually the fantastic Andre De Lange that I got to sing together with a couple of times this year, backed up by Putte Nelssons lovely choir “Team Putte”. Here’s at the City Hall where George Clooney was the keynote speaker.
17. Changing up my kitchen
To the left is the before picture, (I hope you figured that one out without the explanation). Since it was brand new when I moved in I didn’t want to change it completely (I wanted to but I felt too bad about it for several reasons). It really lacked charm and personality. What I did was to just change it up a bit and now I really like my kitchen. I got the fridge out pretty fast and sold it online to somebody who was happy to get a brand new fridge for a cheap price. Instead I put a Smeg in. (It’s the second time I buy a Smeg fridge and I love it.) Then I just changed the door handles to leather ones, the sink and tap to brass colored ones, and the countertop to one in granite color. That’s it!
16. Pretty winter days
15. Celebrating sweet Anna’s big 40
14 … and here just a summer lunch together!
13. One of the fun nights out with the fabulous four!
12. Singing at the “Show the Way” Gala
10. Girl talk with my lil’ niece Scarlett.
9. Boating with Eriks brother and wife!
7. When all of our families got together so celebrate our engagement!
6. Our weekend up in Sälen celebrating Christian’s big 40.
5. Soulful Voices
So proud of my choir Soulful Voices! It’s been an incredible year, and I can’t wait to get started again in a month!
4. Here’s when we performed at the Stockholm City Hall.
3. Christmas!
This year we celebrated with my whole family, and our last year as an engaged couple!
1. Getting engaged!
Of course my number one is the night Erik proposed to me. We were celebrating my birthday, and Erik had prepared a trip for me and kept it all a secret until we got there. I had a feeling something was going on because during dinner he was obviously nervous. He’s not the clumsy kind of guy, but he kept on spilling his food, and all of a sudden he started singing “going to the chapel, gonna get married”. Not a song he usually hums on, and that made me really suspicious. After dinner he took me out to the veranda and got down on one knee and proposed. Of course I said yes, and 2020 we’re getting married, and I can’t wait.
Goodbye 2019, and hello 2020 - the year I’ll be getting married. More about that on the blog in a couple of weeks! Happy New Year folks!
Soulful Voices Choirs has done yet another super fun concert! I feel so lucky that I get to lead all these wonderful people as a choir director. Here’s some highlights from our concert. (Click on pictures to make them bigger).
All photos taken by Sebastian Ekman.
Last preparations before showtime.
SOULFUL VOICES
Press play on the video below to hear some highlights from Soulful Voices.
Soulful Kids
Press play on the video below to hear some highlights from Soulful Kids!
Press play on the video below to hear some highlights from Soulful Voices Alicia Keys Medleys.
SOULFUL TEENS
Press play on the video below to hear some highlights from Soulful Teens.
I’m so impressed with all of the great soloists in Soulful Voices!
Press play below to hear all the choirs in Soulful Voices sing “Higher Love.”
The amazing musicians! On keys: Manfred Hulebo, on base: Per Perlan Hansson, on guitar: Filip Ericsson, and on the drums: Emil Söderteg.
A big thank you to every singer, to the musicians, and also to everyone who came out to see our concert! Hope to see you all in 2020.
On May 18th 2019, my choir Soulful Voices had our spring concert! Here’s some highlights from a wonderful night!
Last prep before the show…
Soulful Teens and the adult choir.
So grateful for these amazing musicians who played all 18(!!!) songs without any complaints… well, they actually did comment on all my medleys, and I understand them :) Jonathan Alfredsson, Petter Alin, Douglas Hedström and Tobias Tagesson.
Thank you Soulful Voices for letting me lead you musically! I love working with you!
All photos by the talented Abraham Engelmark.
Love,
Johanna
On the 25th of April, Soulful Voices Choir was invited to sing at SEMrush Awards at Stockholm City Hall, in the Blue Hall. Here’s some highlights from the evening!
We sang Shallow from “A Stars is Born 2018” and “We Are the Champions” by Queen.
Here’s some photos from the day. First we did a soundcheck and thorough practice on how fast we could get get down the stairs.
Stockholm City Hall, with it’s spire featuring the golden Three Crowns, is one of the most famous silhouettes in Stockholm. It is one of the country’s leading examples of national romanticism in architecture.
The great Nobel banquet is held at City Hall. After dinner in the Blue Hall, Nobel Prize laureates, royalty and guests dance in Gyllene Salen, the Golden Hall, with its 18 million gold mosaic tiles. Doesn’t it look AMAZING!
Here’s my lovely choir Soulful Voices and some additions :) Since some of my singers couldn’t attend, I borrowed some talented people from the choir Drivved.
It was soooo hard to find a place to take a group photo where we could all fit in one shot, but we kind of did it :)
Getting ready to enter the stage…
Thank you to all my wonderful singers for an amazing performance! Now I can’t wait for May 18th when we’ll have our Soulful Voices concert!
