Alexander Rybak’s musical journey and official footsteps in 2018
Here you will find an overview of concerts, TV and radio shows, releases, great interviews and more during 2018, as we know of, and Alexander’s other official footsteps 🙂
We are still updating the 2018 schedule with info and links.
JANUARY
6th – TV-SHOW, NORWAY – “Hver gang vi møtes – Special” with highlights from earlier seasons, but also new interviews with the artists. Pre-recorded.
9-13th – plus/minus a day or two. Visited his family in Belarus
15th – NEW MUSIC VIDEO- Release of Alexander’s entry for Melodi Grand Prix – “That’s How You Write a Song” Where to stream and download
15th – PRESS CONFERENCE – Alexander announced as participant in the Norwegian Eurovision selection, Melodi Grand Prix
16th – RECORDING OF TV-SHOW – Norwegian talk-show “Lindmo”.
20th – TV-SHOW, NORWAY – Guest in the talk-show “Lindmo” on NRK1. Pre-recorded.
30th – preparing for the MGP final
FEBRUARY
2nd – Radio Norge, Norway – Interview.
2-4th – CHOIR SEMINAR – “Fremtidens talenter møtes” (Future talents meet up), Mo i Rana, Norway– Event info
4th – SEMINAR CONCERT – Gruben church, Mo i Rana, Norway – Event info
10th – RADIO SHOW, NORWAY – “Snart MGP” (Soon MGP) on NRK P1
13-16th plus/minus a day or two – Recording of the performance in MUITTE MU
19th – NORWEGIAN NEWSPAPER – Great interview about MGP in VG
22nd – NORWEGIAN NEWSPAPER – Great interview about his racing mindset in Aftenposten
MARCH
3rd – NORWEGIAN NEWSPAPER – Great interview about handling his racing mindset and depressions in VG
4th – NEW MUSIC VIDEO – Alexander with a violin interpretation of all the songs in the MGP-final 2018
5. – 9th – The MGP week. Daily live broadcast from the preparations in Oslo Spektrum. More info
8th – TV-SHOW, NORWAY – NRK’s presentation of Alexander before MGP
10th – TV-Show MGP – The final in Melodi Grand Prix 2018 – MORE INFO
11th – RADIO SHOW, NORWAY – Guest in the Norwegian radio program “Søndagsåpent”
16th – TV-SHOW, NORWAY – Guest in the talk-show SKAVLAN
Vacation with in USA
APRIL
3rd – Photoshot for the “Soot-Spelet”
7th – NORWEGIAN NEWSPAPER – Alexander Rybak about his youthful rebellion
7th – TV-SHOW, NORWAY – Alexander performed “Jealous” in “Virtous 2018”, the Norwegian national final for the Eurovision Young Musicians.
Video of the interview – Video with Alexander’s message to the young talents
WEEK nr 15 – The rehearsal for the Soot-Play started
20th or so, SHOOTING POSTCARDS FOR ESC – Alexander in Lisbon, Portugal for some days recording the promo postcard for Eurovision Postcard nr 2
21st – TV-SHOW, UKRAINE – Alexander interviewed in “Svetskaya Zhizn ”, pre-recorded in Oslo/Nesodden.
22th – NEW MUSIC VIDEO – Alexander’s interpretation of some of the ESC songs 2018 – part one.
28th – TV-INTERVIEW, NORWAY – “Lørdagsrevyen” (Saturday News) on NRK1
30th – The Norwegian delegation left for Lisbon
30th – EVENT IN LISBON – Guest at Filip Kirkorov’s birthday party
MAY
1.- 13th – The Eurovision Song Contest days MORE INFO
The time is given in CET, which is one hour after local time.
1st – 1. rehearsal and press “Meet&Greet” in Lisbon MORE INFO
4th – 2. rehearsal and press “Meet&Greet” in Lisbon official VIDEO clip and VIDEO from the press conference
4th – Nordic Night Event – Alexander in the Eurovision Village in Lisbon VIDEO
4th – TV-show, Norway – Guest in the popular Norwegian talk-show “Senkveld” –VIDEO
7th – Alexander Rybak visits the Music School Metropolitana.
7th – Garden party at the Norwegian Embassy
8th – Alexander takes part in the pre-ESC show «Studio Eurovision” on SVT at 20.00 CET. Link to watch online HERE
9th – Press rehearsal(closed event) at 15.00-17.25
9th – Jury Show at 21.00-23.10
10th – Family show at 15.00-17.10
10th – TV-show, Norway – Hello Europe! – Documentary about Alexander
10th – 2. Semi-final at 21.00- 23.10
10th – Press conference – 23.00 – 00.10 (for the artists/countries who passed to the Grand Final)
30th – Visited his father’s children’s orchestra
JUNE
12 – 21st – Recording of TV-show, Norway – Alexander contributes on one of the songs in the 8. season of “Hver gang vi møtes”, which was recorded during 10 days in June 2018. Broadcast in winter 2019.
19th – Radio show, in NRK Distriktsprogram – Østfold, Norway; topic: Soot-Spelet- Link to listen HERE
20th – Norway – Recording of the TV-show “Ønskekonserten” with the orchestra KORK, Ingierstrand Bad, Norway – ALEXANDER’S PERFORMANCE
24th – RADIO SHOW, NORWAY – Alexander guest in the radio show “Ari & Michael” on P4.
The theater play “Soot-Spelet” with 10 shows between the 22. of June and 1st of July. EVENT INFO
NB! Alexander will not play the 28. and 29. of June
22-24th – Theater play, Norway – “Soot-Spelet”, in Ørje, Norway
26-30th – Theater play, Norway – “Soot-Spelet” in Ørje, Norway Two shows this day
29th – Live show, Tønsberg, Norway – 50 anniversary of Taran A/S. EVENT INFO
JULY
1st – Theater play , Norway – “Soot-Spelet” in Ørje, Norway. Final show.
14th – Festival concert, Sweden – Performing at Victoriadagen in Borgholm (Öland). Was broadcast on SVT1, Sweden and 10 other countries the following days. VIDEOS from the TV-show – ARTICLES
18th – Summer TV-show, Norway. Recording of the summer TV-show “Allsang på grensen” in Halden, Norway.
19th – TV-show, Norway. Broadcast of the Summer TV-show “Allsang på grensen” on TV2 (pay-TV) VIDEOS ARTICLE1 ARTICLE 2
20th – Festival concert, Estonia – Performing at the Baltic Sun Festival in Narva, Estonia EVENT INFO
AUGUST
20th – Flower Carnival Festival, Debrecen, Hungary EVENT INFO
SEPTEMBER
Alexander and the TrondheimSolistene on a classical concert tour from 6. to 15. of September. More info about the tour you’ll find here: – EVENT INFO
6th – Classical concert, Flekkefjord, Norway – Concert with TrondheimSolistene
7th – Classical concert, Mandal, Norway – Concert with TrondheimSolistene in Mandal church.
8th – Classical concert, Grimstad, Norway – Concert with TrondheimSolistene in Grimstad kulturhus.
9th – Classical concert, Borre in Vestfold, Norway – Concert with TrondheimSolistene
12th – Classical concert, Narvik, Norway – Concert with TrondheimSolistene
13th – Classical concert, Harstad, Norway – Concert with Trondheimsolistene
14th – Classical concert, Melbu, Norway – Concert with TrondheimSolistene
15th – Classical concert, Leknes in Lofoten, Norway – Concert with TrondheimSolistene.
23th – Gala show, Norway, Oslo Spektrum – “40 years on the Red Carpet” anniversary of the Norwegian celebrity magazine Se&Hør. EVENT INFO
30th – Event, Moscow, Russia – Performed at the free concert “Heat in Vegas” show at Vegas City Hall.
OCTOBER
11th – RADIO INTERVIEW AND REHEARSAL, KRISTIANSAND, NORWAY – Alexander and Lisa Børud were interviewed by NRK Sørlandet about the upcoming Christmas tour and the rehearsal with a children’s choir.
24th – Culture event, Grieghallen in Bergen, Norway – “Russland i ord og toner” (Russia in words and music). EVENT INFO
NOVEMBER
10th – TV-show, Norway – Alexander composed and performed his own joik in the TV-show “Muitte Mu” (Remember Me).
21st – TV-SHOW, NORWAY – Alexander and the other artists in Stille Natt Hellige Natt guests in the breakfast TV-show “God morgen Norge.
21st – Recording TV-show, Norway. “Håp i ei gryte”. MORE INFO
22nd – The Christmas tour “Stille Natt Hellige Natt” starts in Tromsø, Norway with the first of 28 concerts. EVENT INFO TICKETS
DECEMBER
1st till 22nd – Christmas Tour “Stille Natt Hellige Natt” EVENT INFO TICKETS
10th – TV-show, Norway. “Håp i ei Gryte” (Hope in a Pot). MORE INFO.
12th – TV-show, Norway. “Håp i ei Gryte” (Hope in a Pot). MORE INFO.
23rd – Norwegian TV-show – “Kvelden før kvelden” – A Christmas TV-show on NRK1 – MORE INFO
Will there be a concert in Serbia and when?
Nothing planned in Serbia in the nearest future as we know. The next months will probably be all about Eurovision Song Contest.
When will you sing in the USA?
Hi there 🙂 Alexander doesn’t read comments here, so it is better you ask this question under one of his posts on FB or Instagram 🙂