We are slowly getting into autumn all over the country, and it is a joy to drive through Denmark and know that people around the steering committees of the folk music festivals are now sitting and analyzing the festivals that have just been held; How did it go? Had we booked the right bands? Did we have enough volunteers? What can we do better when the weather

Then it was late summer, the holidays were over, there was even a solar eclipse, and we are all back at work in the middle of one of our busiest festival months. The Cat in the Bag has been to the award ceremony at Musik over Præstø Fjord, and has spoken to some of the award recipients, and then we are on our way to both the Frederiksdal Chamber Folk Festival and Folk

My name is Anne Eltard, I am a musician, composer and songwriter, and in connection with the podcast series Hovedstads Guld, I have spoken to 4 artists, composers, musicians, poets, all with a non-Western background. They have family, live, play, perform in Copenhagen and the rest of Denmark. I have spoken to Berrin Bas (TR), Bilal Ishred (PSE), Salam Susu (SYR) and Isam Bachiri