Come to the Conditori La Glace and singalong with Aarzemnieki today

Today at precisely 15:00 the group will arrive at La Glaces address Skoubogade 3, 1158 Copenhagen. Here they will sing one or two songs for the pastry eating audience.

Then they will make some stops on the fan mile and sing for the Saturday shoppers.

And to wrap up the cake of today, Jöran Steinhauer will visit DessertDragen on Skt. Peder Stræde and go with the store manager to the lucky winner of their cake competition.

Happy cake day to everybody and come and Join Us!

Special guest star: The Cajon from 4Sound

We want to present this very special instrument, who joined the group for a few days! It's beautiful and it has amazing sound. May we present: The Cajon!

We want to give a special thanks to 4Sound in Copenhagen for lending out this cajon to Aarzemnieki! 4Sound is the best shop for musicians to turn to, when they need instruments, studio and performance gear and anything in between. Lots to choose from and lots of knowledgeable staff to help pick what's just right for you.

Raitis used the cajon from 4Sound at the group's performance at EuroClub Wednesday night and for the Latvian reception on Thursday. Doesn't it look great in action? Well, we think so - and to say the least, Raitis knew how to handle this box with excellence!

Once again: THANK YOU SO MUCH 4SOUND FOR LENDING AARZEMNIEKI THIS BEAUTIFUL CAJON!

Big musical cake day @ Tante T

Thursday it was time for the Latvian reception at the best and prettiest tea lounge in Copenhagen: Tante T in Museum of Copenhagen. We were so lucky that Tante T was willing to lend us their beautiful Garden Lounge and sponsor tea, coffee and cakes for all the invited guests. The day before Tante T had just opened their outside terrace, which the guests had the pleasure of enjoying. Additionally, Museum of Copenhagen gave everyone free admission to the museum as well.

The doors opened at 14 and 30 minutes later the lounge was packed. Jöran, Katrina, Raitis and Guntis were looking sharp as ever, and warmly welcomed all the guests. Besides the special invited international press delegates, also the Eurovision participants from Estonia, Lithuania, Albania and Armenia also guested the reception.

Aarzemnieki had brought their instruments for some acoustic surprises, and entertained with several tunes before they opened up for a jam session on the stage. Hersi from Albania jumped into an improvised version of "Vivo Per Lei", and well - brave girl!



Tante T had been busy and baked a table of lovely cakes for us! All home made with quality ingredients. As a tea lounge the place is famous for their many kinds of tea, and we have to say one of our favourites is the Cool Mint flavour!

The 50 first guests were even given a small goodie bag from Tante T - so we must say that Tante T were as generous as ever, and it was in every way thinkable the perfect location for this event!

The musical entertainment included a sing-a-long performance of "Paldies Latinam". 2Pixies was struggling with the words, since their Latvian is not that great - yet.



Later also Aram MP3 from Armenia was ready for some cakey jamming fun with the band.




We had a wonderful day and want to give a HUGE thanks to store manager uncle Anders and the lovely aunties at Tante T, Museum of Copenhagen, LTV Latvijas Televīzija and of course to Aarzemnieki for a great afternoon!

 

Next stop Euro Village & Euro Fan Cafe!

2Pixies have been on a quest to visit and test the Eurovision Venues before they become venues. 

Next stop on the 2Pixies tour round Copenhagen is Nytorvet. The address for the upcoming Euro Village. Right now it's the playground for the pigeons, but this time next week it will be transformed into a cheerful Eurovision village with a grand stage ready for various performers. What is on their programme is yet to be revealed, but you can bet your a.... that there will be several acts from the competing countries. 

The huge question is... Will there be room enough for dancing and waving/kicking with arms & legs in the attempt of looking like a gorgeous backing singer?? - Well! 2Pixies think so and have already tried it and had our applause! So bring your pompoms and be ready for a great show.      

If you get tired of performing you can always relax on one of the city benches.

Just around the corner from the Euro Village is the venue for the Euro Fan Cafe. It's located in Huset-KBH, Rådhusstræde 13. For now it's a cultural event house with weekly concerts and performing arts on their programme. Next week it will be something completely different.

This is the place to go if you want to have a bag full of Eurovision treats. There will be performances from the competing countries and many former Eurovision artists will pop by for a surprise visit. There are also made big plans for pop-quizes, talk shows with Eurovision personalities and parties with Eurovision DJ’s. You will find the programme on Huset-KBHs website.

AND BAAAAAM! While writing this blog, visitcopenhagen.com just published the programme for the Eurovision weeks. Go and seek it HERE.

Waiting for Emmelie in Tivoli

Eurovision Song Contest 2013 found its winner last night. Emmelie De Forest from Denmark won with her song "Only Teardrops" written by Lise Cabble, Julia Fabrin Jakobsen & Thomas Stengaard.

Today we went to Tivoli to greet Emmelie and her team with over 30.000 other people.
The Prime minister also sent a special greeting to Emmelie, who performed her winning song on Tivoli's big stage.

Tivoli was crowded and everyone wanted to see a glimpse of the Danish winner.

We are really exited to see which city will be hosting the event in 2014. We cross our fingers for Copenhagen. We know DR is deciding as we speak.

We had hoped our PeR guys had gone to the final but otherwise it has been some great Eurovision weeks. Thank you to our new friends from Latvia and we can't wait to see you again.

This marks our end of this Eurovision 2013 journey and also, this is the last post in this blog for a while. We will leave it open, because you never know - 2pixies can't keep away for too long.

 Tivoli parading for Emmelie

 Mr and Mrs Peacock parading for Emmelie

 Mr Peacock got the best seat in the house

 

Here she comes...

Finally!

PeR was here - in Karlskrona

PeR was invited to play at an honorary concert in Karlskrona. We got some pics for you taken by the delegation.

All photos from Karlskrona copyright Zita Kaminska, HoD

Did you see PeR @ Eurovision Village?

Eurovision Village is located in the centre of Malmö city, at Gustav Adolfs Torg, and during the week of Eurovision there will be performances and different planned activites for everybody to enjoy. That means the city is already oozing of the ESC spirit! Malmö is the third largest city in Sweden and one of the largest ones in Scandinavia with a metro population of 664,000 people. The programme for Eurovision Village can be found here.

PeR was invited to play at the Estonian party yesterday, and wow - they were in good shape!

Free concert tomorrow in Malmö

The Nordic countries & Belarus invited to suPeR parties

It's a tradition that the participating countries is having a party for the delegates and press. The Nordic Party was this year held at the event venue Glasklart, and featured the participants from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland and Finland. All of them performed their songs live on stage.
A large crowd of journalists and photographers were present, and besides the Nordic countries also the participants from Austria, Croatia, Russia, Latvia, Moldova, Ireland, San Marino and Israel graced the party. Everyone was treated to a small plate of food and drinks in pure Scandi style.

The PeR guys talked to many journalists as well as met several of the other participants, and Ralphs said: "I like this party a lot. Cool place! It's the first, but also best party so far."

At 23 we went to Belarusian party at Euroclub. It was quite a spectacular event with a big buffet, wine and cocktails for everyone. Euroclub was crowded with happy people and the dancefloor was burning. Thanks for a great night to Nordics and Belarus!

The Su-PeR cool guys

Klapa s mora from Croatia gave a spontaneous performance

PeR met the lovely Valentina from San Marino

Eytor Ingi from Iceland performing at Glasklart

PeR with Serbia's girl group Moje 3

PeR and Margaret Berger from Norway