Västerviks Visfestival (BJÖRN)

Filmed: July 2013

Location: Stegeholm Castle ruins, Slottsholmen, Västervik, Sweden

Broadcast: Never broadcast

Release status: Unreleased

Shown in: Sweden

Additional information

The Västerviks Visfestival (Visitor Festival) has taken place at the Stegeholm Castle ruins at Slottsholmen in Västervik (where Björn grew up) since 1966 and is one of the oldest festivals in Sweden. The festival always takes place Thursday until Saturday of week 28.

In 2013, on the final evening of the festival the crowd were surprised with the appearance of the two remaining members of The Hootenanny Singers - Björn and Tonny Roth. Their appearance was a tribute to Hansi Schwarz who had passed away a few months earlier in January 2013 and who had been co-organiser of the festival since 1968 and sole organiser since 1978.  Of course, Hansi Schwarz was also a member of The Hootenanny Singers with Björn, Tonny and Johan Karlberg.

Björn and Tonny performed a short medley of four songs:

  1. Tom Dooley
  2. I lunden den gröna
  3. Omkring tiggarn' från Luossa
  4. Gabrielle

The footage is private, no TV cameras but this is worth watching.

Johan Karlberg died 16 August 1992.
Hansi Schwarz died 10 January 2013.

 

 

Thanks to Tom Hase, JC Bernhardt, Julian Körner and Anita Notenboom c/o Hootenanny Singers Facebook group and Pascale Ranson c/o ABBA Village.
YouTube links c/o Gun Hemström and Tobias Persson

 

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