Pop Music for Concert Band

The iconic soundtrack composed by John Williams continues with 'The Force Awakens', the seventh Star Wars movie. This arrangement for Young Band tries to capture the rich timbre of the original orches...

Maria Mena has been one of Norway's most popular artists the last 15 years, releasing 25 singles and eight albums during this period. This beautiful, melodic song is one of her biggest hits released b...

Odd Nordstoga is an award winning Norwegian artist who has been active since the 1990's, working in the popular-/folk music genre. I have listened to a lot of Odd Nordstogas music, in particular the...

The singer/ songwriter Sondre Justad was born in Lofoten in the north of Norway in 1990. His first album 'Riv i hjertet' was released in 2015, and it became a huge success. He got very fine reviews in...

'Winter and Snow' was written by Sigurd Jansen and Alfred Naess and were recorded and released on single by Norwegian singer Wenche Myhre in 1966. The single was released in connection with the Nordi...

Randy Crawford led R&B veterans the Crusaders on the transatlantic hit 'Street Life' (1979). A specially re-recorded version was featured in the soundtrack for the films Sharky's Machine and Jackie Br...

An old weather forecast on the Norwegian radio inspired Tone Hulbaekmo to write this song. Folk musician and composer Tone Hulbaekmo comes from Tolga, a small place in Norway. She have toured worldwid...

'Big Big World' is a ballad by Swedish pop artist Emilia Rydberg. The song won the Swedish Grammis, the prize for 'Song of the Year 1998', and the Swedish 'Rockbjörnen' prize. The song's simple and vu...

Most Scandinavian people know Benny Borg. As a guitarist, composer, lyric writer and a show actor, he has been producing great music for many decades. His most famous songs are probably 'Balladen om M...

'Aura Lee - the Maid with Golden Hair' is an American Civil War song about a maiden. It was written by W. W. Fosdick (lyrics) and George R. Poulton (music). The tune is familiar to modern audiences fr...

This song is taken from the first record album by Norwegian band Kaizers Orchestra. The song is one of the most well-known from this band. Kaizers Orchestra was famous in Norway for it's energic style...

Norwegian artist Jorn Hoel made his breakthrough with his album 'Varme ut av is' released in 1987. The songs 'Have a Dream' and 'Hold My Hand' became big hits and still stand out as some of the most p...

Harry Connick Jr. is an American pianist, singer, composer and actor from New Orleans. He has released many albums and perform frequently with his own big band. 'Do Dat Thing' is a real 'feel-good' so...

'Väsen' ('commotion', 'fuss', 'ado') is a Swedish acoustic band consisting of three outstanding instrumentalists playing viola, 12-string guitar and nyckelharpa ('key-harp'). They have been touring to...

'Optimist' is one of the most well-known songs by Norwegian singer and composer Jahn Teigen. It was written for the Norwegian Eurovision in 1989. It did not win this competition, but is still one of t...

This pop-song written and performed by Halvdan Sivertsen was first released on the record album 'Hilsen Halvdan' in 1991. Since then, is has been a classic song in Norway. The lyrics is about the bene...

'Ein farfar i livet' (Grandpa) is taken from the 2011 record album release 'Bestevenn' (My best friend) by Odd Nordstoga. This is music for a Norwegian TV-series called 'Vaffelhjarte'. In this arrange...

Mjelle is the most well-known song by Norwegian singer/songwriter Terje Nilsen (1951-2019). This wistful and beautiful song about Mjelle, a beach just north of Bodø in Norway is really masterful arran...

This little melody leaps up and down giving young musicians the opportunity to practice ascending and descending intervals up to a perfect fifth. Short diatonic scale patterns create contrast to all t...

'Gressholmen' (in English 'Grass-Islet') is a beautiful melody written by Norwegian singer/songwriter Kristian Kristensen. This arrangement is done in the same vocal character and style as the origina...

Jon Henrik Mario Fjällgren became instantly well-known after his appearance in Sweden's 'Got Talent' where he performed 'Daniels Joik' written for his recently passed best friend. Fjällgren was born i...