Efva Attling presented her jewels in Barcelona last October 14th. The event took place in the store Snö, which will sell her jewels from now on. Can’t believe one can now buy Attling jewels in my homeland Catalonia!

Here are some pictures of the event. The first two pictures are taken from Efva’s agent website, the last one from Maria Agrell blog.

Last august A&R Lars “Billy” Hansson and producer Lars Halapi gathered some of  Sweden’s, of course including Eva Dahlgren, and Norway’s biggest artists together to interpret Leonard Cohen’s work. The artists sang the songs live together with an orchestra at Radiohuset in Stockholm. The result can be hart in “Cohen – The Scandinavian Report” which is out on September 30th.

This recording was photographed by Anna-Lena Ahlström and filmed by Emanuel Danneman, who will show their work in an exhibition at Lydmar Hotell in Stockholm. The exhibition opens on September 29th and is available for one week.

You can also find a longer version of the album’s promo video on YouTube. Of course, with Eva!

Sony Music

A Myspace website is now available for the tribute album “Cohen – The Scandinavian report”. Unfortunately, there is no pre-listen available for the song Eva performs, but you’ll find a picture of her on the page.

Update: Eva’s song snippet is on myspace now. Enjoy! It sounds incredible

I used to have a video of Eva performing “Jorden är ett litet rum”, for what I remember she was sitting in a room, on a chair, with children sitting in front of them on the floor. There were candles all around. I think the performance was from 1996 and was recorded/broadcast in December around Lucia’s. I unfortunately cannot find this performance anymore.
I would appreciate if anybody who has it could share it
Thanks!

Here’s a collection of articles about Efva Attling on Spanish media:

H Magazine
Marie Clarie – part 1 and part 2
El Pais – Plaers, in catalan

According to Newsdesk, in order to tribute Leonard Cohens 75th birthday and work, some of the most famous Scandinavian artists such as Olle Ljungström, Jan Malmsjö, Sara Isaksson or, of course, Eva Dahlgren, have covered Cohen’s songs in tribute album “Cohen – The Scandinavian Report”.

The album will be out on September 30th and has been produced by Eva’s producer Lars Halapi.

These are all participating artists:

Eva Dahlgren
Olle Ljungström
Ane Brun
Jan Malmsjö
Sara Isaksson
Sophie Zelmani
Åge Aleksandersen
Jenny Wilson
Rebecka Törnqvist
Bo Sundström
Mikael Wiehe
Cookies n Beans
Christel Alsos
Anders Widmark
Moto Boy
Vidar & Peter

In addition, you can find pictures of the recordings on Flickr , taken at Sveriges Radio Studio 4.

Update August 25: Eva’s management D&D confirmed that the song performed by Eva is “Bird On The Wire”.

Orkester Pop with Mija Folkesson, David Shutrick, Ulf Engström and Janne Robertsson will perform “Om spöken fanns på riktigt” tomorrow at Brunkebergstorg, Stockholm, starting at 16:00 CET. This performance is part of the Stockholms Kulturfestival and it’s for free.
Enjoy!

not sure if you know this one. Just lovely.

According to DN, Eva Dahlgren will be one of the artists to perform at a gala in Stadthuset on June 18th, where Crown Princess Victoria will be handing out this year’s prizes from the Marianne and Sigvard Bernadotte Artist Fund. The gala is even more special this year as Marianne Bernadotte, who is Victoria’s great aunt, is celebrating her 85th birthday.

Other special guests who will perform during the gala are Marie Fredriksson, ABBA singer Agnetha Fältskog, opera singer Barbara Hendricks, Lill Lindfors and violinist Christian Svarfvar.

Eva Dahlgren wil be a guest in the Finnish TV show “10 kirjaa rakkaudesta” (Ten Books About Love), together with Märta Tikkanen and Jörn Donner, on 6th August 2009 at 9 p.m. on channel Yle 1. They will be discussing Per Olov Enquist’s novel “Nedstörtad Ängel” which is available in Finnish (“Suistunut enkeli”) and in English (“Downfall: a love story”). Eva Dahlgren will read the book on Märta Tikkanen’s request.

Thanks Tiina for the information.

Efva’s jewels can now also be found in Spain (my homeland! yay!). Björklund Trading runs the sales agency for Efva Attling’s jewels in Spain, which can now be found in Valencia, Palma de Mallorca and Malaga.
Björklund Trading runs a blog where you can read about news and events. They report that last Thursday there was an event in Valencia where Efva’s jewels were presented with tapas and champagne.
The launching event took place on May 11th with Valencia football players among the guests. Here you can see some pictures.
Too bad I live in Austria now, would have loved to see Efva’s jewels on national Spanish TV!
Mucha suerte!
Spanish newspaper reports about the event

and we wish her a fantastic day with her family and friends!
Grattis Eva!

check yourself out on EfvaAttling.com!
Currently only Swedish customers can use the webstore and buy her jewels online with a credit card, international customers still have to do all the shopping per email, but this will change soon.

Efva is also expanding to Spain and launched new designs last Wednesday with a small party in the store in Hornsgatan.

Here are Efva’s words:

This is it, a shop in heaven. Who would have thought.

Welcome to our new website and online store. I am proud to present my entire collection on the web. Now you can choose when you want to shop. For years people have been asking me why I haven’t opened a shop on-line. I have a motto though…”The time will come”. Now the time has come.

Last year my company celebrated its 10th year anniversary. I also celebrated the fact that Barack Obama was sworn in as the new US president. We are turning pages and I hope that we are gradually becoming strong enough to build a better world together. And Mr. President, we have something in common. We believe in hope and change.

I used to be a singer and songwriter. I connected with other people by expressing my inner thoughts in lyrics, and music . Music has a very important therapeutic function in people?s lives. When I started designing jewellery, I wanted to continue to write and express myself. I wanted to give the gift of words and expressions, hoping that they would be meaningful to someone else. Like “Carpe Diem”, to seize the day, since you never know what tomorrow brings. And “Amor Fati…” we’ve been given this life and now it’s up to us to make the most of it.

I call my jewellery ”beauty with a thought”. People often share their life stories with me and I’ve been told over and over again how much a piece of jewellery has affected someone’s life. A little about my latest collections…

Moonwalk
I’ve always been fascinated by how the moon influences us. When I designed Moonwalk I chose a moon with a softer surface than the one with the deep craters we’ve all seen in pictures.

Swirl
I was playing with a satin ribbon when I came up with this new design. The collection comes with earrings, a ring and a pendant. I’ve also created matching eyewear.

Magnolia
Taking my inspiration from the beautiful magnolia flower, I made this as a small and as a large pendant with matching earrings. This collection will be released in May 2009.

Sweethearts
Yes, I do! Of course I love working with people in love. A wedding is a very important and joyous time in a person’s life and I am proud to play a tiny part in it. My new wedding collection has it all: the engagement ring, the wedding ring, a pair of earrings and a necklace with the name Sweethearts. Romantic and cute, but never silly.

I hope you enjoy my first shop in heaven!

Peace, love and understanding,
Efva Attling

According to Hufvudstadsbladet Eva will perform at the Kaisafest’09 music festival in Helsinki on June 13th.
Tickets can be bought at Menolippus website.