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Christmas is closer and some schlager-veterans go on tour to spread a Christmas mood around Sweden like for example Christer Sjögren, Pernilla Wahlgren and Gunhild Carling uniting their forces for a series of shows.
Today they've presented nice sneak peek of their tour in Nyhetsmorgon and you can check it below.
Pernilla Wahlgren is the only Melodifestivalen-2010 finalist who hasn't released anything after the contest so it's pleasant she's finally back. Christer is gonna perform next year at Melodifestivalen with Lotta Engberg by rumours so it will be a good promotion for him as well (even if rumours will stay rumours).

Since October 16th you'll get ability to watch new season of SVT show Dansbandskampen (hosted by Christine Meltzer, Thomas Deutgen and Gunhild Carling) - contest where dansband groups will fight every week to get into the final. Many contestants of two previous seasons Larz-Kristerz, The Playtones, Scotts, Zekes have become really succesful afterwards and public has got tons of lovely dansband-covers for some favorite hits. That's what we're looking from new Dansbandskampen season. It wasn't difficult to mention some familiar names among new contestants like Rigo & the Topaz Sound (after Melodifestivalen-2009 Rigo participated this year almost in every show so but see him in dansband-competioт was really big surprise!) and Wizex (band where Kikki Danielsson and Charlotte Perrelli has started their music career). But mostly I'm excited about participance of amazing CC & Lee who already participated in the first season but haven't won! Before start of the show Lionheart releases singles of their artists CC & Lee, Patrik's Combo and Elisa's, all are nice, but CC & Lee's single "Better Best Forgotten" sounds completely loveable due to only chorus. I'd say it's more old-school Abbaesque disco-schlager than dansband, beautiful, catchy and done in best traditions of classic Swedish pop.