‘What a Wonderful World’: Join us for Jazz on the rocks

Gulabuddin Sukhanwar

Summer is here; a season that we all have been waiting for; a time to refresh our senses and make new memories at the same time - the opportunity to explore the glorious beauty of our surroundings and nature.

We are fortunate to live on this incredible planet, which offers life and all sort of beauty and whose blue color is an inspiring symbol of love, patience, and freedom.
Summer is the time to get away from our official schedule and plan to spend time with friends and family, and most importantly, to have time for ourselves and enjoy life.

Isn't it amazing to wake up in the mornings that your schedule shows a fun activity, such as travelling or meeting your loved ones, or going to a party?

This part of the planet that we call home, Norway, is known for its long and beautiful winter with snow and cold weather. However, summer brings us immense evergreen nature, mountains fully covered by towering trees and all around is nothing other than beauty.

Everyone likes waterfalls but how would it feel to celebrate a summer’s day at one, while enjoying an open-air jazz concert?

This creative idea of holding a jazz concert at the Ingdal waterfall makes a summer weekend ridiculously sublime. Involving a natural stage which is decorated with stones and a background with calming water melodic sounds and the surrounding walls that are formed of rocks and painted with lush foliage that spread an endearing perfume.

This joyous atmosphere of fossajazzen is a combination music and natural harmony which traditionally takes place on the first Saturday of July every year; a unique occasion that offers an everlasting memory and a different taste of our Trøndelag region.

The Ingdal waterfall is located at the Agdenes kommune- district, which is just a one-hour drive from Trondheim city.

One sunny day last year my friends and I drove to Ingdal to attend fossajazzen, which was a highlight of my summer holiday and the most unforgettable experience I had ever had in Norway during my stay in the last five years.

Luckily, my Norwegian grandmother, Bjørghild Irene lives a hundred meters from this impressive cascade so that is always a coffee spot for my summer visits.

Many of us travel to other countries and big cities to spend our holidays but often we forget what we still need to explore in our own districts: fossajazzen is one that must not be left behind.

Being at such a concert, one feels that all of nature is enjoying your company, while the jazz together with gushing waterfall percussion creates a common language of nature and human initiative, to talk and better understand each other: our summer language.

And finally, a summer weekend at the Ingdal waterfall is a day to witness the re-birth of nature’s life. As F. Scott Fitzgerald beautifully put it: "And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

If you are you still thinking about where to enjoy a summer weekend, this event is my recommendation.

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