Maria Grönlund

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Songwriter

I write popsongs with influences from jazz and soul, for myself as well as for other artists.

In 2006 I was a double finalist in the international songwriter competition Song of the Year. Read more.

Singer

in Go! Grönlund Orchestra. A four-song CD, "Å ena sidan" is available to buy from us or from CD-Baby.com. I sing my own songs and play the piano on some of them, and Magnus plays the guitar.

Pianist

I have got a Master of Fine Arts from The Royal College of Music in Stockholm and I teach piano, ear training and music theory at Sollentuna Fria Gymnasium.

Background

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Music

Listen to samples of some of my songs.

Our CD "Å ena sidan" is available on www.cdbaby.com

Buy one! And one for your friend!

Said about

Read what people have said about my music.

News

January 2009 "Om flickan ifrån Ipanema" is still on #2 on the Latin chart on Garageband.com. By now it has received 59 awards on this site. Read reviews here.

June 6 Swedish National Day Celebration, Edsbergsparken, Sollentuna.

I will perform some of my songs at 3 pm, with excellent musicians Emil Olin on drums, Jonas Ericsson on guitar and Johan Nyberg on bass.

November 9 Welcome to Vanadis Restaurant and Bar, Vanadisplan 1, Stockholm! Red, shining instruments, three sweet voices, singer-songwriter music with different musical spices. Happiness, melancholy, poetry and warmth in songs by and with Cecilia Ohrwall and Maria Gronlund, supported by singer/bassist Lisa Nordell.

No entrance, good food!

Book ahead ,08 33 45 00. http://www.vanadis.se/ www.myspace.com/vanadismusik

October 18 Performing together with Cecilia Ohrwall and Lisa Nordell at Swedish Publisher Awards

July 16 I will perform some of my songs together with guitarist Jonas Ericsson at Kungsträdgården, Stockholm. Lilith Eve arragnes the concert and it starts at 6 pm.

Be there!

June 11 Go! Grönlunds orkester plays at Restaurang Vanadis, Vanadisplan 1, Stockholm. You can eat or have a drink, book ahead if you want at 08 33 45 00. Free entrance. 8 pm.

Welcome!

March 2007 I'm going to be the Featured International Artist on a new York-based radio show that's going to be about Dag Hammarskjöld.

September 17 Go! Grönlunds orkester has a concert at Skärholmens Gård, Skärholmens Gårdsväg, Stockholm at 15.00-16.00. Beautiful oldfashioned surroundings and a nice café. Welcome!

August 9 Go! Grönlunds orkester performs at Bar Chapman, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm at 18.00-22.00. Fantastic outdoor scene with the Royal Castle and the old ship Af Chapman as a background. The bar is situated just at the quay edge and it serves wonderful food and drinks.

Come and have a nice summer's evening with us!

July 23 Go! Grönlunds orkester at Lilith Eve's Festival in Kungsträdgården, Stockholm. The event starts at 19.00 and we will play at 21.15. Our CD will be for sale. No entrance.

Come and enjoy!

June 16 Concert with Go! Grönlunds orkester at Musikvalvet, Kåkbrinken 8, Gamla Stan, Stockholm at 19.00.

80 SEK. Welcome!

May 24 Through the music site Soundclick.com "The Beauty of your Soul" has reached and is regularly played at 15 different webradio stations in US, Canada and UK.

May 15 "Om flickan ifrån Ipanema" has been in the top of Round 2 Garageband.com in the genres Latin and Jazz for a long time now.

The 20% of the songs that get the best reviews will move on to Round 3. Sofar the song has got 23 awards and it is the Track of the Week in Jazz May 15-21.

May 9 TV Sollentuna sended a portrait and a live recording of "The Beauty of your Soul" which was broadcasted all week.

May 2 "Spotlight of the week" in Uppsala student radio. "Om flickan ifrån Ipanema" and "Både och" were played.

April 24 6 new awards for "Om flickan ifrån Ipanema" on GarageBand.com this week. A.o. Best Love Song - all genres.

April 23 "The Beauty of your Soul" is # 3 out of about 1800 songs in the Acoustic General Chart at Soundclick.com.

April 13
March 17-23 "Om flickan ifrån Ipanema" is "Track of the Week" and has got the awards "Best Female Vocals", "Best Guitars" and "Best Mood" in Latin, on GarageBand.com

April 13 I am a "Suggested Artist" on the website of Song of the Year, because of my song "The Doorway".

April 13 The song "Om flickan ifrån Ipanema" is "Track of the Day" on GarageBand.com

March 25 Gig on the Sweden Singer Songwriter Festival at CuLTUREN in Västerås.

March 24 The first EP of Go! Grönlunds orkester is ready! 4 songs, everthing DIY except the recording and mixing that were made in the fantastic studio OAL in Stockholm - with Neumann microphones from the 40's, gold membranes and everything. It's quite an experience to sing in one of those!

A big thank to Lennart Ström!

The EP is called "Å ena sidan" ("On the one hand"). Send us an e-mail if you want to buy it!

March 13 Reviewer's Picks: Best female vocals week of March 13th.

#9 Best Love Song in Acoustic Alltime och #19 Best Guitars in Acoustic Alltime on the American musik site GarageBand.com

March 12 The homepage is ready!

Thanks, Jonas Ericsson!

March 8 Song of the Year finally announced the Final Yearly Winners in their singwriting competition! I didn't win any the categories "Adult Contemporary" or "Instrumental/ Jazz/World" that I competed in. They only announced the number ones, so I don't know on what places I came. So - I lost - or I placed as shared number 2 - it depends on how you look at it!

Top 12 sounds good, doesn't it?!

February 27 Reviewer's Picks: Best female vocals and Best Love Song in Acoustic week of February 27th on GarageBand.com

February 25 "The Beauty of your Soul" was chosen to "Track of the Day" at GarageBand.com

February 16  My song "The Beauty of your Soul" got two awards at Garageband.com:
Reviewers' Picks: Best Female Vocals in Acoustic week of 16th February and
Best Guitars in Acoustic week of 16th February.

February   2006  

”Portrait of the Month” on the website of STIM (Swedish Composers' International Musik Bureau) www.stim.se

February   2006    Article in "Mitt i Sollentuna".

January 20      Interview and ”Om flickan ifrån Ipanema” in P4 Radio Stockholm's "Musikstad Stockholm".

January 13  

Article i "Dagens Nyheter", the main morning paper of Sweden

Januari         Article on the website of national radio station P2. I was called "New voice in Swedish s/s".

January 9      Interview in  national radio station P2's "Mitt i Musiken". The songs "Om flickan ifrån Ipanema", "Cherry Tree" and"The beauty of your soul" were played.

January 5   2006   Interview i P5 Radio Stockholm's "Idag i P5", and the song "Om flickan ifrån Ipanema".

2005 Among many other happy things that happened this year, I won a world wide song writing competition, Song of the Year,not only once, but twice!

When the year 2006 began I was in the yearly Final in two of the ten categories in the competition.