Sing-along and People’s Kitchen

Harald Bergstedt – Poet gone astray

Historian Mikkel Skvovgaard Petersen, who will also set the tone on the piano, is behind the evening’s historical feature. The evening’s host is event manager Josefine Albris.

Can a song be silenced or banned? We revisit some moral considerations around some of our song heritage’s most treasured songs. These include Solen er så rød mor, Jeg ved en lærkerede and Danmarks børn lad sangen klinge. The author of these songs was one of the greatest lyricists of the labor movement throughout the 20s and 30s and a standard-bearer for the workers’ song. But Harald Bergstedt made a fateful choice and supported Nazi ideology with his journalistic agitation in the early 40s.

The war was followed by imprisonment and loss of civil rights. And DR, for example, was banned from playing his songs until 1963. But that wasn’t enough to take the songs out of children’s rooms.

Come and sing along to his famous songs and learn more about what really happened back then and afterwards.

The people’s kitchen

The menu is on its way. Vegetarian version can be ordered by email to kokken@cafeogoelhalle.dk no later than 6 days before the event.

History and wish concert

Join the community as we sing our way through the Labor Songbook. The first set consists of the historical element. In the second set of the evening, it’s up to the guests to decide which songs to sing from the Workers’ Songbook. A little anecdote about the songs is welcome!

The People’s Kitchen

After we’ve sung ourselves happy and warm in the workers’ song traditions, Café & Øl-Halle serves a favorite from the Danish folk kitchen