Southnord presents the concert "Afro Nordic Blue" in collaboration with Liljevalchs as part of the program for the exhibition "When We See Us: A Century of Black Figurative Painting", internationally acclaimed as one of the most significant exhibitions of our time.

Sofia Jernberg, Alexander Hawkins and Ole Morten Vågan are some of Europe's most multifaceted and expressive musicians. Sofia Jernberg (SE) explores unconventional techniques and sounds from the human voice and collaborates frequently with visual artists, filmmakers, composers and musicians around the world - everything from contemporary chamber opera to improvisational and jazz music. Alexander Hawkins (UK) is often described as unparalleled in modern creative music and is considered one of the most innovative and significant in the field. Ole Morten Vågan (NO) has been a central part of Scandinavian jazz and improvisational music for the past decade and has played with, among others, the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, the Maria Kannegaard Trio and the Joshua Redman Trio with Jorge Rossy and Joshua Redman.

Jernberg and Hawkins released the duo album Musho in 2024, where traditional songs from Ethiopia, Armenia, Sweden and other places become a starting point for development and a personal sound world. For this concert, Vågan joins on double bass, creating a trio with precision, depth and musical flexibility. David Topp writes in his liner notes for Musho (translated into Swedish): “Where is home, where is the return for the divided? Soft and crystal clear, a music of edges, silence and cuttings from the periphery, Musho dwells on these questions and invites us to reflect on forced displacement, migration, identity, responsibility, blood-soaked history, cultural leakage and community, but above all, Musho invites us to listen.”