Andreas Hellkvist

For some reason, midsummer's eve is usually rainy and cold. This time, it was the sunniest and hottest in 50 years. Beautiful day, both for a gig and the celebrations afterwards. Erik Tengholm subbed to Karl Olandersson and did a great job.

Summer party gigs are fun! I was asked to bring a drummer for at duo gig at a birthday party just outside my hometown of Uppsala. Luckily, Ola Bothzén was available. We set up on the porch of a small house in front of a lawn of people on blankets. Felt a little like a…

The Hellkvist Hammond Hour goes IRL! Kom, mingla, spisa, häng och ha kul. Fri entré!

Last gig of the tour unfortunately since the Saturday gig ín Härnösand was cancelled. However, as usual a great night at Brux.

Great way to start the week! E-street is such a nice place and the Sundsvall jazzclub always welcoming. The place was filled and the audience in a good mood.

Nice spring day at a beautiful place. We had a great time as usual and Skottvångs gruva continues to be one of my favorite places.

This Saturday I was playing with Claes Janson & Arnesen Bluesband at one of my favorite venues - Skottvångs gruva. So I couldn't do my usual Hammond hour from the HQ. But I thought it was so fun to do the solo stream highlights from Ystad two weeks earlier so I thought I'd do something…

This place is a really nice venue, but a nightmare if you're bringing the B3. Just inside the door there are steep stairs that you have to pass. Though, this time I didn't have to worry, since the XK5 is a lot lighter. Also, nice that the jazz club are opening up again!

What a wonderful gig to break the last Corona hiatus! Church organist Gabriella Sjöström invited me to do a joint concert with both church organ and Hammond. St Göran's church has a wonderful acoustic and I decided to bring the big guns, that is, my B3 with two leslies. They both looked and sounded great…

I think, so far, every time I've played at Musikhuset it has been with a new constellation. And the streak continues. This was the first time we played here with Hunky Dory. Have to say, a very well fitted venue for this trio. I'm sure we'll be back!

Laid back Christmas mingling gig. Also nice to have two days in a row. And the food was really good!

Final gig for now with this trio. Monik is going back to Canada in a few weeks but it was nice to do a stream from the HQ as well. A few friends in the audience, and some freshly baked bread.

In Sweden this year, Father's day is celebrated on Nov 14th. Since my dad always have loved blues and hard swinging shuffle I thought I'd dedicate this stream to him. A trio setting with Thomas Arnesen and Daniel Olsson seemed perfect for the occasion.

Booking a gig on a short notice is sometimes risky, especially if it's in another town where you don't have access to the best channels of information. We decided to give a try. It was really a great gig, but unfortunately the audience weren't that much bigger the band. Ah well, at least we had…

First gig with this trio! Monik and I got to know each other over the internet. During this fall she is in Sweden on a schollarship, so we put together a repertoire, asked Daniel Olsson to join and booked a few gigs. This one started out a little scary though. One of the tubes in…

Almost had forgotten what a nice venue this is, beautifully located on Ekerö outside Stockholm. Crisp autumn day. And as usual, we had a blast with the blues band and Claes Janson!

Wow. Just wow. I wanted to do this for so long. To combine the sound of two organs and find ways on how to combine them so that they complement and strengthen each other without it turning into a contest or a duel. Photos: Palli Kristmundsson

Nice to be back at Katalin's jazzbar after a dreadful corona hiatus. Hope it can stay this way now, but as it seems nowadays, you never know...

Coming from the club like festival gig with this trio in Uppsala two days before, playing a church was a bit of a contrast. But not in a bad way. This room is so spacious but at the same time so acoustically pleasant. And the trio is so fun, regardless of venue or occasion. Also,…

This summer att Katalin has certainly been remarkable. Normally they close down and there is not too much activity but this year there has been several concerts each week at the outdoors terrace. To finish it all they arranged a small festival towards the end of summer. It was supposed to be outdoors but due…

As usual, a great finish of the summer church tour in Brännkyrka. Especially this summer when we're coming out of corona. Thank you Brännkyrka!

Grand opening at Musikhuset! I have played ehere a couple of times before with various bands and up until now it was been like a music café. Now however, they have fot the rights to serve alcoholic beverages which makes it a proper music pub. This was the opening event with lots of specially invited…

For a number of years, I've had an ongoing collaboration with Norweigan friends Hans Bollandsås and Helene Misund. They live in the Trondhiem area so it's not that close, but every once in a while we get together for a few concerts and some nice hang. This time they made the trip to Uppsala and…