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Eric Saade doesn't tour this summer in Sweden but stil he couldn't miss a chance to visit one of the biggest TV-shows - Sommarkrysset with Tone Damli to perform their single "Imagine" and ballad version of "Hotter Than Fire". Just like Allsång på Skansen Sommarrysset was celebrating Stockholm Pride inviting Diamond Dogs with another funny parody for Malena Ernman, Sarah Dawn Finer and Linda Bengtzing. Norlie & KKV have made a big buzz among girls in the audience.
We've also got Louise Hoffsten (with Jessica Marberger as a backing vocalist) and Eric Gadd among performers.

Aleks och Eric Gadd - De säger
Louise Hoffsten - Looking for mr God

Season of tv-concerts in Skansen has started today when Sweden was celebrating its National Day. Before watching it you should realize that it's more about summer atmosphere in Sweden rather than loads of hits and highest pop-elite. If you're lazy to watch a whole concert here are some highlights of it:
8.11 - Sonja Aldén performing Lars Winnerbäck's "Stockholmskyss" in a nice dansband-schlager way.
27.58 - Thomas Stenström singing his new song "Full Av Liv" which hasn't become my cup of tea but you should check this artist anyway, he gets a heavy promotion and probably will be bigger in Sweden soon.
32.03 - "Gabriellas Sång" by Hanna Lindblad who seems to never suffer from Melodifestivalen-flops making. Lady just go and find another success on TV, in theater, pop-career is postponed but it's just a matter of time, right?
47.28 - Louise Hoffsten singing old Alice Babs' hit "Rengtunga Skyar".
53.00 - Panetoz who have made medley of their #1 "Dansa Pausa" and Swedish classics "Deirdres Samba" and have actually lived this party up. That was nice watching Royal family being into this performance.

Annual Idrottsgalan is back with a bunch of some top-artist who were with us during last year and seems like are going to be next year too.
We've got big voice trio of Sonja Aldén, Linda Pritchard and Anna Sahlene with "Higher & Higher", Lisa Miskovsky who sounded...hm, pretty unusual in Sting's "Fields of Gold" (but it was pretty emotional performance in memory of some Swedish sportsmen who died in 2011), Markoolio with his own song "In med bollen" and company of Lili and Susie, Hammerfall with Judas Priest's "Breaking the Law" (they're doing pretty loads of TV lately, are we gonna get them on MF soon?), Louise Hoffsten with her own old song "Let the best man win" and The Clash's "London Calling" performed by Nicke Borg who has become much more actively interacting with audience since last spring. Thanks for the tip about event to Schlagerfiasko that you absolutely must follow when ESC-season is at full speed.

Louise Hoffsten has a long history in Swedish music exploring loads of different genres and with huge discography, singer seems like always was concentrating on her music rather than going pop and mainstream.
In the middle of 90s Louise has got a heavy neurological disease - multiple sclerosis but she never stopped to work with music and message of new single Jill Johnson-smelling melodic country-pop "I'll Get By" is about no need to worry about her, fight with life's disasters is a natural thing.
New Louise Hoffsten's album "Looking for Mr. God" is produced by Stefan Örn (who has written Eurovision-2011 winning song "Running Scared") and will be out on January 18th.