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GUNHILD CARLING
February 6 at 7:00pm. Doors open at 5:30pm. Event will be outside, dress accordingly.
Spend a night with GUNHILD CARLING outside, under the desert stars at Oscar’s Palm Springs.
This is her fourth return to Oscar’s. She is an unbelievable musician and entertainer. She is not to be missed!
Carling became known for her performance at Allsång på Skansen on 20 July 2010. The same year, she became an expert commentator for Dansbandskampen at SVT. Gunhild plays trombone, bagpipes, trumpet, recorder, string instruments (such as banjo, ukulele and harp), and will often showcase all of her skills in one song, sometimes casually breaking into a tap dance or singing. [3] Carling competed as a celebrity dancer in Let’s Dance 2014 on TV4, being placed third.[3][4]
In 2013, she performed with her ‘Carling Big Band’ at the Royal Palace in Stockholm in the celebration of King Carl XVI Gustaf‘s Ruby Jubilee.[5] In 2016, Carling performed at King Carl XVI Gustaf’s 70th birthday celebration.[6]
She was featured as a singer and multi-instrumentalist in several of Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox‘s adaptations of pop songs, which include a jazz swing version of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up“, a 1920s jazz swing version of “Material Girl“, a vintage jazz version of Europe‘s “The Final Countdown“, a jazz cover of Pharrell Williams‘ “Happy” in which she demonstrated her multi-instrumentality by playing ten instruments, and a 1920s hot jazz cover of ABBA‘s “Dancing Queen“.
In 2016, she was featured at TEDxArendal, speaking about and playing trombone, which she has said is her favorite instrument.[7] Carling often expresses her affection and respect for artists from early jazz, and especially the seminal New Orleans period. Among others, she refers to the influences of Louis Armstrong, Freddie Keppard, Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, and Billie Holiday. Holiday’s influence is potent in Carling’s singing style.
