Swedish musical sensation Gunhild Carling is an internationally acclaimed jazz singing superstar who plays 11 instruments, including jazz bagpipes, as well as juggling and tap dancing.
Her party piece is playing three trumpets at once.
Gunhild, who is at the Stoneham Lane club on Monday, July 21 night, performed with her Carling Big Band at the Royal Palace in Stockholm as part of the celebrations for King Carl XVI Gustaf’s Ruby Jubilee.
Her playlist included vintage classics like Minnie the Moocher, Sweet Georgia Brown, All of Meand It Had to Be You.
Carling competed as a celebrity dancer in Let’s Dance 2014 on TV4, coming third, and was also on Sweden’s Dancing with the Stars, Sweden’s Got Talent in 2017, and America’s Got Talent season in 2019.
Between touring with her own band, she performs in several configurations from solo to orchestra to symphony.
She was featured singer and multi-instrumentalist in several of Postmodern Jukebox’s songs, including a 1920s jazz swing version of Material Girland a 1920s hot jazz cover of ABBA’s Dancing Queen.
Gunhild serenades audiences in the US and all around the world and has more than three million views from social media, earning her a silver award from YouTube.
She will be sharing The Concorde stage with Jive Aces, the UK’s No.
1 Jive & Swing band who also have a royal pedigree.
The in-demand sextet average 300 shows a year and have worked with Van Morrison, Keely Smith and performed for Her Majesty the Queen.
They headlined and sold out the Royal Albert Hall and thousands of festivals, theatres, dance halls in 35 countries, including Buckingham Palace for the Coronation Festival, Trafalgar Square for the Olympics and major theatre tours in the USA.
They wowed the judges on Britain’s Got Talent and their popular music video, Bring Me Sunshine, is a viral hit with well over 3 million views on YouTube and has won seven film festival awards.
It is so uplifting that it has actually been prescribed by a doctor!
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