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Let's keep on surfing Swedish Christmas TV and check what SVT has prepared for us.
Well, the most interesting I've found is the beginning of Så ska det låta season with Christmas theme and 4 popular artists - Malena Ernman, Sarah Dawn Finer, Kalle Moraeus and Peter Jöback. Opera, folk, soul and newly musical stars all had Christmas releases in the past and it was definitely interesting to check how they'll be sounding together. You can watch the whole show here and some performances below.

When you start thinking Loreen can't surprise you with a new performance of "Euphoria" she enters the stage and shocks with her energy and THE VOICE! This time she has also made an absolutely epic performance with drums explored by her in a mini-tour she makes in Sweden right now.
We've already got Diggiloo-gang with Charlotte Perrelli, Jessica Andersson, Markoolio, Magnus Carlsson and The Moniker. Kalle Moraeus was making his "Underbart" and playing with Alexander Rybak.
Norlie & KKV were a nice live-discovery for me and Lasse Stefanz, well, not the stuff I usually writes about.

Kalle Moraeus, Linda Lampenius och Alexander Rybak - Fiolmedley
Makoolio - En kväll i juni
Lasse Stefanz - Hitmedley

What a great idea! Carola and Patrik Isaksson have united in Moraeus med mera to sing a big medley singing hits of each other including "Främling", "När Löven Faller", "Hos Dig Ar Jag Underbar", "Du Får Göra Som Du Vill" and "Faller Du Så Faller Jag", stunning bunch of real classics!
Patrik has also performed his recent hit "Mitt Stockholm" and Carola two Elvis' covers, finally they've come up on the stage to sing Kalle Moraeus' Melodifestivalen-entry "Underbart".
You can watch the rest of performances from Yngwie Malmsteen and Those Dancing Days and whole show here.

We've lost a track of the latest episodes of "Moraeus med mera" that had more than worthy line-ups all the time though. Today Andreas Johnson and Tove Styrke performing their latest singles couldn't leave us silent so here are the most interesting performances of the last month from Sanna Nielsen, Charlotte Perrelli, Daniel Adams-Ray, Serenades, Lisa Misovsky, BAO singing ABBA-classics and Veronica Maggio performing with Benny Andersson.

Andreas Johnson - Buzzin
Andreas Johnson - Sing For Me
Andreas Johnson & Kalle - Glorious akustisk
Adam Tensta - Scared Of The Dark
Tove Styrke - Call My Name
Tove Styrke - Society
Sanna Nielsen och Kalle Moraeus - The Prayer
Sanna Nielsen - I'm In Love
Charlotte Perrelli - Tusen och en natt
Charlotte Perrelli - Mr Kelly
Daniel Adams-Ray - Gubben i lådan
Daniel Adams-Ray - Lilla Lady
BAO - Thank you for the music
BAO - Allt syns när man är naken
Serenades - Birds
Veronica Maggio - Alla mina låtar
Veronica Maggio med Benny Andersson - Snälla bli min
Lisa Miskovsky och Kalle - Alright
Lisa Miskovsky - Some Of Us

We've got a new music tv-show "Moraeus med mera" at SVT, artists visit Kalle Moraeus singing their (and not only) hits with a live band and it feels...well, at least original, we didn't expect "In The Club" to go as folk as it sounded.
it's not gonna be too much about pop-goodies but fans of Scendinavian folk-atmosphere should be definitely pleased.
First episode's guests were Danny with his own latest singles, Danish singer Mads Langer, one and only Jill Johnson with new song "While You're Sleeping" and Hammerfall.

Danny - Tonight
Danny, Jill, Joacim, Mads & Kalle - Beatrice
Kalle Moraeus - Hjortingens Polka
Mads Langer - Microscope
Jill Johnson - While You're Sleeping
Danny och Kalle - In The Club
Jill Johnson & Joacim Cans - Alone
Hammerfall - B.Y.H

Allsång På Skansen starts new era with new host Måns Zelmerlöw and first episode has got two Swedish international stars - Danny and September, Benny Andersson's Orchestra with Helen Sjöholm, Tommy Körberg and Kalle Moraeus and Lunds studentsångare ensemble as lovely bonus.
Fantastic September performed probably the biggest hit in Sweden of this and last year "Mikrofonkåt" with new "Party In My Head" and Evert Taube's "Så Skimrande Var Aldrig Havet". Danny was singing two of his latest singles - "In The Club" and "Tonight" and making two fantastic covers of "Vart ska vi sova i natt" and "Sverige" with Måns. BAO team has performed three songs from the newest album - "O klang och jubeltid", "Allt Syns När Man Är Naken" and "Kära syster" (all three songs are written by Benny and Björn by the way). Sure Måns hasn't missed expectations, showing the best of his vocal and charisma and there's no doubt that he'll lift this year's show with the help of many amazing artists. You can watch whole show here.

Danny - In The Club
Danny - Tonight
Danny and Måns Zelmerlöw - Vart ska vi sova i natt
September - Party in my head + Mikrofonkåt
September - Så skimrande var aldrig havet
BAO med Helene Sjöholm och Tommy Körberg - Kära syster
BAO med Helene Sjöholm och Tommy Körberg - O klang och jubeltid
BAO med Helene Sjöholm och Tommy Körberg - Allt Syns När Man Är Naken
BAO - Skånepotpurri
Mikael Wiehe - Flickan och Kråkan
Lunds studentsångare - Oh boy!
Lunds Studentsångare - Uti vår hage
Husbandet och kören - Humbuggie Woogie
Måns Zelmerlöw - Goddag, goddag
Måns Zelmerlöw - Flickan och Kråkan
Måns Zelmerlöw - Stockholm i mitt hjärta

Let's check what interesting we could watch this week in the biggest music tv-shows of Sweden. Yesterday we've got Sommarkrysset back but Lotta På Liseberg and Allsång På Skansen had a lot of interesting guests as well.
This time Lotta invited Swedish sweetheart Sanna Nielsen who performed her last single "Devotion" and new song "A Part Of Me" (that was presented earlier on Love Stockholm 2010 as "Sound Of Spring"), very pleasant work in Celine Dion direction of last Sanna's album. Another big public favorite Kalle Moraeus was singing his Melodifestivalen-hit "Underbart". Timo Räisänen who was also involved this year in after-show of Melodifestivalen performed his last single "Outcast". Watch whole show here.

Sanna Nielsen - Devotion
Sanna Nielsen - A Part Of Me
Kalle Moraeus - Underbart
Kalle Moraeus - My Nadine
Timo Räisänen - Outcast
Lotta Engberg - En sån karl

Allsång På Skansen this time presented 2 Top-5 finalists of Melodifestivalen - Timoteij and Darin. Darin gave stunning performance of his "You're Out Of My Life", new brilliant single "Lovekiller" and Lena Philipsson's cover "Kärleken är evig", it all was (not surprisingly) accompanied by screams of Darin's happily wild fans. Timoteij presented new single "Högt Över Ängarna", sure didn't forget about folk's beloved "Kom" and old song "Fjäril vingad syns på Haga". Other participating big names were Kikki Danielsson with her classic hit "Bra vibrationer" and new single "Let this light shine on me forever", ex-Rednex with new name Cotton Eye Joe Show, medley of their biggest hits and covers of "Ring Ring" and "Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms", Movits! with their own "Äppelknyckarjazz", "Fel Del Av Gården" and karaoke of "Fritiof och Carmencita", Olivia Stevens with some classic stuff and Christopher O'Regan. Watch whole programme here.

Darin - You're Out Of My Life
Darin - Lovekiller
Darin - Kärleken är evig
Timoteij - Kom
Timoteij - Högt Över Ängarna
Timoteij - Fjäril vingad syns på Haga
Kikki Danielsson - Bra vibrationer
Kikki Danielsson - Let this light shine on me forever
Cotton Eye Joe Show - Medley
Cotton Eye Joe Show - Ring Ring
Cotton Eye Joe Show - Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
Movits! - Fel Del Av Gården
Movits! - Äppelknyckarjazz + Fritiof och Carmencita
Olivia Stevens - Det börjar med ett glas champagne
Olivia Stevens - Vill ni se en stjärna?
Christopher O'Regan

And finally Sommarkrysset as usual came back with Melodifestivalen-2010 participants, this time Crucified Barbara were singing their hit "Heaven & Hell", schlager-veteran Anne-Lie Rydé performed Vikingarna's cover "Hallå" from her new released album "Dans På Rosor", Fibes Oh Fibes! with one of their hits "Lovechild" and two Scandinavian guests Rasmus Seebach from Denmark performed currently popular in Sweden track "Natteravn" and Norwegian duo Madcon tried to repeat Eurovision-flashmob with single "Glow" being on the top of many European charts this Summer after band's performance in Oslo. Programme was finished with another big Madcon's hit "Beggin'", band was joined by Magnus Carlson with Swedish version of this song titled "Jag ber dig". Watch whole show here.

Crucified Barbara - Heaven & Hell
Anne-Lie Rydé - Hallå
Fibes Oh Fibes! - Lovechild
Madcon - Glow
Rasmus Seebach - Natteravn
Madcon & Magnus Carlsson - Beggin'/Jag ber dig

Some latest news about what's going on with participants of Melodifestivalen-2010.

Timoteij will release new single "Högt över ängarna" from debut album "Längtan" on June 30th.

In the beginning of May Expressen reported about Neo who after all stresses he's got in the MF-period got serious case of vestibular neuritis and had to learn how to go, now Neo's back and as a proof he performed his MF-single "Human Frontier" and previous "Flower Power Supergirl" in acoustic.

NEO - Flower Power Supergirl (live at Nyhetsmorgon)

In days of Midsommar Peter Jöback got married with his boyfriend Oscar Nilsson. You could see Andreas Lundstedt, Pernilla Wahlgren and Sarah Dawn Finer among guests. Short interview from wedding is here.

Don't forget to visit blog of Jenny Silver as you can find some interesting demos that she's recording with her husband.

Song "Vilar Glad I Din Famn" written by Benny Andersson and Kristina Lung and performed with participance of Orsa Spelmän & Kalle Moraeus gets it's single-release apart from other songs from princess Victoria's wedding included in special compilation "Bröllopsmusiken från Storkyrkan". Benny Andersson commented that he wasn't interested in putting his name among merchandising of this event. By the way Kalle Moraeus along with Salem al Fakir, Anna Bergendahl, Timoteij and Eric Saade few weeks ago received golden status of his latest album "Underbart".

Anna Bergendahl's "This Is My Life" keeps conquering hearts of European audience and is currently at #13 in chart of one of the biggest Lithuanian radiostations M-1, week before the song also appeared in Hungarian chart. Anna along with many other artists performed in Kungsträdgården at Love Stockholm 2010 and looked very-very nice in her beautiful dress (thanx to Vitaliy for photos).

Lovestoned released their album "Rising Love" in Germany, sure band has tried to make this edition special for their German fans and included new song "Who's That Girl", that you can listen below.

Currently Jessica Andersson's "I Did It For Love" is #1 in the oldest Swedish radio-chart Svensktoppen (with following "Underbart" at #2, "Keep On Walking" at #3 and "Kom" at #9), Jessica plans new single but promise next album only next Spring.

Anders Ekborg prepares for release of his album "Painted Dreams" but before we'll get new single "I Do Believe" on July 7th. You can listen piece of new single and another duet with Helen Sjöholm "Always Here" below.

And finally I need to mention that currently we can find only winners of 4 semifinals of MF-2011 in Swedish single-chart.

13 - Timoteij - Kom
22 - Eric Saade - Manboy
28 - Anna Bergendahl - This Is My Life
60 - Salem Al Fakir - Keep On Walking

...You could see Ola Svensson singing Tomas Ledin's song "En Dag På Stranden" on the stage of Skansen on National Day...

...Carola performing her new single "Det är bara vi" devoted to wedding of princess Victoria...



...Eric Gadd with his last single "Rise Up!" and well-known back-vocalists (Thérèse Löf, Michael Blomqvist and Anna Andersson) behind him (MF-2011 warning???) on a beautiful stage on Skeppsbron...



...Sarah Dawn Finer covering the winner of Eurovision-2010...



... Kalle Moraeus just having sold his new album golden with the song that really helped him with it...



and also

...especially popular these days band Johnossi performing their hit-single "What's The Point?"...

...Cookies N Beans covering Bee Gees classics "Islands In The Stream"...

... Timo Räisänen performing his last single "Outcast"...

...Rigo performing on National Day Swedish song "Stockholms Ström" (no ideas about where it came from)...

and Miss Li with really nice performance of her "Bourgeois Shangri-La".

If you're still gonna be in Stockholm in close future, don't forget to check programme of LOVE Stockholm 2010 or take a look at this short programme from Aftonbladet.

Also two summer great tv-shows "Allsång på Skansen" and "Lotta på Liseberg" have announced this year line-ups.

"Allsång på Skansen" will start 29th June and we'll see among others The Ark, Anna Bergendahl, Carola, Eric Saade, Darin, Timoteij, Kikki Danielsson, Salem Al Fakir, Thomas Di Leva, Oskar Linnros, Mando Diao, Tove Styrke, Orup, Hanna Lindblad, Charlotte Perrelli, Magnus Carlsson, Måns Zelmerlöw and Sarah Dawn Finer.

http://svt.se/2.112060

"Lotta på Liseberg"'s (starting from 21th June) line-up is not less fantastic and has a lot of interesting artists like Charlotte Perrelli, Alexander Rybak, Markoolio, Linda Bengtzing, Velvet, Alcazar, Jessica Andersson, Erik Linder, Kalle Moraeus, Sanna Nielsen, Timo Räisinen, Måns Zelmerlöw, Timoteij, Maria Haukaas Storeng, Erik Gadd, Andreas Johnson, Cookies n’ beans, Anna Bergendahl, Jill Johnson, Rigo, Caroline af Ugglas and Eric Saade.

http://www.tv4.se/1.1668077