Notodden Blues Festival through the years Part 3 (2014 - 2019)

Описание: Notodden Blues Festival through the years Part 3 (2014 - 2019)
in this four-part photo series, we follow the Notodden Blues Festival from 1997 to 2025, documented through the camera lense of Getty Photographer Per Ole Hagen.

The long and colorful history of the Notodden Blues Festival is told in the documentary Bluestown Rising (Kingsmountain Productions, Director Jørn Stenersen, Executive Producer Steven Van Zandt, Producer David John Smith).

BLUESTOWN RISING
The wheels of industry ground to a halt in 1987. The factories in this isolated Norwegian town of Notodden closed overnight, leaving nothing. Just weeks after the shutdown, 13 young men and women meet just a stone’s throw from the silent factory buildings.

They share one idea – to create a blues festival. They go to the local bank and put their savings, their borrowed money, and their futures on the line to organize and stage the first Notodden Blues Festival in 1988.

Only 2,000 tickets are sold, but for the young organizers, it is success beyond their wildest dreams. From the dust, a small group of young women and men created a Blues Festival that now nearly 40 years later is beloved all over the World.