Tapiola Garden showtime 6 PM
Exhibition Centre WeeGee showtime 6:30 PM

Fri 5 Sep | A. H. South-East Corner | Exhibition Centre WeeGee

Fri 19 Sep | Organ Freemen w/ Jukka Eskola | Tapiola Garden | TICKETS

Fri 3 Oct | Iro Haarla Trio | Exhibition Centre WeeGee

Fri 10 Oct | Josh Meader Trio (AU) | Tapiola Garden | TICKETS

Fri 24 Oct | Nana Rashid (DK/OM) | Tapiola Garden | TICKETS

Fri 7 Nov | Arto Ikävalko Trio | Exhibition Centre WeeGee

Fri 14 Nov | Kjetil Mulelid Trio (NO) | Tapiola Garden | TICKETS

Sat 29 Nov | Xmas Special: Sami Saari & Jazzpojat | Tapiola Garden

Fri 5 Dec | Joona Toivanen Trio | Exhibition Centre WeeGee

Sat 13 Dec | Xmas Special: Susanna Aleksandra Quintet | Tapiola Garden

10.10.2025 – 6 PM
Tapiola Garden
Tickets 20/15 €

Joshua Meader has recently graduated with a 1st Class Honours degree for jazz performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He has been playing music for 19 years and was taught by his father and professional musician, Paul Meader from a young age. He came 2nd in the Australian National jazz Awards at the Wangaratta Jazz & Blues Festival in 2022.

Josh Meader – guitar
Matthew Thomson – keys
Alex Hirlian – drums

24.10.2025 – 6 PM
Tapiola Garden
Tickets 20/15 €

Nana Rashid is one of the brightest rising stars on the Scandinavian jazz scene. The Danish-Zanzibari-Omani vocalist was awarded Best New Jazz Artist of the Year at the Danish Music Awards 2023 for her stunning debut album Music for Betty—a release also nominated for Best Vocal Jazz Album of the Year.

With a voice that channels the raw emotional power of Nina Simone and the elegance of Scandinavian jazz, Nana Rashid offers a strikingly original take on modern vocal jazz. Music for Betty is a deeply personal and emotionally resonant album that blends Nordic melancholy with shades of neo-soul, blues, and poetic storytelling. The title references her original song “Poor Blue Betty” — an ode to the parts of ourselves we often hide, but which ultimately make us whole.

The debut received wide critical acclaim:

“A superb debut album.” – Jazz Journal

“One of the absolute best Danish vocal jazz debut albums in several years.”
★★★★★ Gaffa DK

“A smouldering intensity… sets the tone for the entire album.”
★★★★★ Jazzwise (Editor’s Choice)

This concert is part of Better Live, a project co-financed by the European Union's Creative Europe program.

Nana Rashid – vocals
Benjamin Nørholm Jacobsen – piano
Martin Brunbjerg Rasmussen – double bass
Lasse Jacobsen – drums

14.11.2025 – 6 PM
Tapiola Garden
Tickets 20/15€

Kjetil Mulelid has distinguished himself as an inventive artist, blending jazz, psalms, and improvised music in both his own playing and compositions. After graduating from the famous "Jazzlinja" in Trondheim back in 2014, he has been heavily touring the world's nooks and crannies with his own music and projects. He has played concerts in large parts of Europe and Japan, and released several well-received albums as a solo artists, as well as with his own Kjetil Mulelid Trio, the jazz quartet Wako, with singer Emilie Storaas as the duo Kjemilie, and with singer Siril Malmedal Hauge - both as a band and as a piano / vocal duo.

Mulelid focus on a type of music where his compositions are formed intuitively through his improvisational and spontaneous way of playing. With a desire to tell a story in every musical stanza, he treats each song like a blank canvas and paints with his melodies and a natural rhythmic flow in the playful music. His music has been very favorably featured in magazines such as The Wire, International Piano Magazine, Jazzwise, Orkesterjournalen (jazz), Jazznytt and The NYC Jazz Record. His first trio record was mentioned by Jez Nelson as "Best of the year" on British radio Jazz FM.

Kjetil A Mulelid – piano
Rune Nergaard – double bass
Andreas Winther – drums