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Benny - Pinball Brothers

 

ABBA spelar ABBA-flipper Tack Benny för att du kom och signerade fina #abbapinball

Det är Bennys son Ludvig som tog initiativ till ABBA-spelet som tillverkas av @pinballbrothers

Används nu fliiitigt på kafferasterna i Stimhuset.

Spelets ägare var också på plats Helena Walter, medarbetare på Stim OCH världsmästare i flipper!

ABBA juega ABBA pinball 💙 Gracias Benny por venir y firmar lindos #abbapinballs

Es el hijo de Benny, Ludvig, quien tomó la iniciativa del juego ABBA producido por @pinballbrothers 👏

Ahora se utiliza con frecuencia en las pausas para el café en Stimhuset.

También estuvo presente la dueña del juego ➡️ Helena Walter, empleada de Stim ¡Y campeona mundial de pinball! 🏆

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Benny at Monomusic

 

https://www.instagram.com/stories/abba/

https://www.pinballbrothers.com/abba-pinball

MONOMUSIC

Benny Andersson - Marie-Louise Ekman´s birthday

 november 5, 2024 / Benny / Eva Dahlgren / Marie-Louise Ekman´s birthday

BENNY ANDERSSONS ORKESTER

Helen Sjöholm, Tommy Körberg och Benny Anderssons orkester bjuder upp till dans i försommarnatten. En inspelning från Cirkus i Stockholm den 11 juni 2024.

Helen Sjöholm, Tommy Körberg y la orquesta de Benny Andersson le invitan a bailar en una noche de principios de verano. Una grabación de Cirkus en Estocolmo el 11 de junio de 2024.

 

Benny Andersson in an interview with Jan Gradvall

september2024

Benny Andersson in an interview with Jan Gradvall p1

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4K55z5kMYdY

  

Benny Andersson in an interview with Jan Gradvall p2

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2nUQANwVWQU

 

8 oct 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLw11zIJ2is

 

22 oct 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHZUyKRfhZc

BAO video 5 - REFRÄNGSÅNGERSKA BAO video 6 - TEXTER

Benny Andersson talks about Musical Kristina

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QturxDmtF04

Date 15 October, 2025

Benny joined Minnesota Now from Sweden in an exclusive interview with VocalEssence director Philip Brunelle.

https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2024/10/15/abbas-benny-andersson-on-his-musical-set-in-minnesotas-reprise-in-minneapolis

ABBA's Benny Andersson on reprise of his Minnesota-set musical 'Kristina'

Tiempo de lectura: 3 minutos

Benny Andersson (left) of ABBA visited Minnesota in 1996 for the American premiere of his musical 'Kristina.' Philip Brunelle (right), directed choral group VocalEssence in their performance.

Courtesy VocalEssence

The Swedish hit-makers ABBA changed pop music as we know it: they sent 20 songs to the Billboard Hot 100 and turned the world onto Europop. But there is some lesser-known music by the people behind ABBA.

Back in 1995, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA wrote a musical called “Kristina.” It tells the story of Swedes who found their way to Minnesota territory in the mid-18th century.

In 1996, Benny and Björn came to Minnesota, where Kristina made its American premiere. Now it will be back on the stage nearly 30 years later. VocalEssence will open its 56th season with a concert performance of Kristina on Oct. 26.

ABBA’s Benny Andersson joined Minnesota Now from Sweden in an exclusive interview with VocalEssence director Philip Brunelle.

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The story has been lightly edited for clarity. Use the audio player above to listen to the full conversation.

For those not familiar with the musical Kristina, how did you choose Minnesota as part of this story?

Benny Andersson: [“The Emigrants”] is probably the most famous and popular novel in Sweden, written by Vilhelm Moberg. It’s four books, thousands of pages, and it is about the Swedish immigrants and the family who left for Minnesota. So we got hooked on that and decided that, “yeah, let’s give it a go and see what happens.”

It took five years for me to write the music and then we opened in Malmö, Sweden, and it ran in Sweden for, I don’t know, five, six years.

No other musical in this country [Sweden] has had a bigger audience. So it went very well. And then Mr. Philip Brunelle had this idea to do this concert in Swedish with his American choir, which was very brave, I think, but it was wonderful. So that’s probably why we’re back again, but this time in English.

Philip Brunelle: What I did is I asked several wonderful people from the Swedish Institute here in Minneapolis who came to rehearsals and helped everyone so that they could make the right Swedish sounds. And don’t forget, I also had the orchestra play in Swedish.

Benny, what do you remember from visiting Minnesota back in 1996?

Andersson: I was there a few times. First time was just to do a little recce as we were working on this project, just to, you know, go up to Lindström and follow the footpaths of the writer Vilhelm Moberg. He stayed there for quite a long time, just to get the feel of what it was, where they went, see the graveyards. It was very nice experience actually coming up there.

Phillip, why did you decide to redo the musical this season?

Brunelle: I've been wanting to do it ever since that first performance, because I have to say, Benny knows how to write a melody, and the songs that are in “Kristina” are so poignant, so beautiful. I've had people all of these years saying: “When are you going to have “Kristina” back?” and so it just seemed to be something to do.

In addition, all of the talk about immigration just made it more poignant this year that we really should bring “Kristina” back to the audience, and now that there’s an English translation, we could do it in English.

Benny, do you recall the process you had to go through to write this musical?

Andersson: Well, I don’t know how it is for other people who write music. For me, it is like a nine-to-five thing, or nowadays, maybe eleven-to-three, because I’m a little older.

I have to sit on my piano and wait for it to happen. That’s how it works. In a way, it helps a little when you know what you’re writing for.

Kristina is sitting in her swing in the beginning. They’re getting married. The barn is on fire. They have to travel over the sea to America, all that. So it gives you a little help in: “I wonder how that felt for them. What were their feelings?” And that helps to create music that probably will rhyme with that, as I saw it.

Monomusic / RMV STUDIO

 RIKSMIXNINGSVERKET/RMV STUDIO

A music recording studio housed in a 150 year old naval warehouse in Stockholm, Sweden

Södra Brobänken 42, Stockholm, Sweden 11149

www.rmvstudio.com

"Let’s just say we’ve been really busy in the studio lately…"

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Benny Andersson - Alla Kan Dansa

 Benny Radio Sverige...

Videos with subtitles

https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/7iCxq3oFrvvFV2ojh0vaHA?si=uXs4lzuZQXaLTBwSSFiQCw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSy90BHo_Xo&list=OLAK5uy_nfEUKGBBv2SEM67cAfiKs86SnimWylLaM

2 years as partner to ABBA Voyage

After two years as an official partner to ABBA Voyage, we can conclude that some things were hard to foresee. “Two different worlds but still trying to do something that hasn’t been done before” says ABBA member Benny Andersson.

2 years as partner to ABBA Voyage

After two years as an official partner to ABBA Voyage, we can conclude that some things were hard to foresee.

“Two different worlds but still trying to do something that hasn’t been done before” says ABBA member Benny Andersson.

To be perfectly honest, the partnership in the beginning wasn’t crystal clear. It started with an ABBA Voyage-branded Oceanbird vessel sailing to the tones of “Eagle”, which Benny Andersson is playing beautifully on the piano in the film above, and naming a premium section in the ABBA Arena to the Oceanbird Lounge.

This is just what is seen on the outside, but on the inside, it is even more. Regular meetings about anything from how to best give back to the local community, to setting a sustainability roadmap.

“It has become a friendship more than anything else”, says Ludvig Andersson, Producer ABBA Voyage. “We strive at ABBA Voyage, as most of us do I suppose, to be as sustainable as possible. And there is Oceanbird who specializes in that. Suddenly we had access to a lot of knowledge and knowhow through our partner.”

“ABBA has never had a partner or a sponsor or any such thing because they never wanted that. But then this happened and suddenly we did want it because it was something else” says Ludvig Andersson.

Richard Jeppsson, Wallenius

Something worth going for

It was formed around shared values between pioneers: ABBA Voyage and Wallenius owner family (Oceanbird is a joint venture between Wallenius and Alfa Laval). Both ABBA and Wallenius have pushed the limits on what is possible in their fields, whether it´s new ways of making pop music and stage shows, or developing wind-powered ships.

“We realize more and more how similar our values are. We have expanded each other’s competences to new areas,” says Richard Jeppsson, SVP Wind Powered Projects at Wallenius Lines.

Benny Andersson, ABBA

ABBA member Benny Andersson also express how much he appreciate the partnership.

“Oceanbird is a great, great, great project. Such a fantastic innovation. It’s really something worth going for”.

ABBA Voyage supported 5,000 jobs

In the first year of the show, with 1 million tickets sold, ABBA Voyage contributed to a capital injection of £322.6 million to the local area in East London and supported more than 5,000 jobs, according to the independent study “ABBA Voyage, Economic Impact & Social Value Assessment” by Sound Diplomacy and social value consultancy RealWorth.

Other initiatives to benefit social sustainability are:

Calmer Concerts: an evening with accessibility for neurodiverse and autistic audiences with extra trained staff, reduced arena capacity and chill out zones

An educational workshop for 800 schoolchildren at the ABBA Arena during the summer months

Collaboration with the lesbian and gay mental health charity ELOP for Pride month

Sign-language shows: ticket holders receive a seat in a booth with the best view of the interpreter

“The success of ABBA Voyage shows how London is the music capital of the world,” he said. “I’m proud that City Hall was able to help ABBA bring this pioneering show to east London, providing huge benefits to both the local area and London’s wider economy” says London mayor Sadiq Khan, in Wallenius magazine Our Way.

BAO at Cirkus

 

En efterlängtad återkomst av Benny Anderssons Orkester med Helen Sjöholm och Tommy Körberg på Cirkus i Stockholm tisdag den 11 juni. Det är fem år sedan BAO senast bjöd upp till dans och nu blir det äntligen ett nytt tillfälle. En enda konsert, som filmas av SVT.

Sedan 2001 har BAO spelat in närmare 100 originalkompositioner av Benny, mestadels med text av Björn Ulvaeus.

Med sin medhavda dansbana med kulörta lyktor har de rest runt i sommarsverige och bjudit upp till dans – från Helsingborg i söder till Piteå i norr. De har givit ut 10 album. De har legat på Svensktoppen med många av sina hits, bla Du Är Min Man/Vår Sista Dans/Fait Accompli, och tilldelats fyra Grammisar. Allt genomsyrat av deras gemensamma nämnare – SPELGLÄDJE!!

Välkommen till ”En kväll på Cirkus med Benny Anderssons Orkester”

Längd: 2 h

Arrangör: All things Live

Åldersgräns: 13 år

Rullstolsplats bokas via tickets@cirkus.se

El esperado regreso de la orquesta de Benny Andersson con Helen Sjöholm y Tommy Körberg en el Cirkus de Estocolmo el martes 11 de junio. Han pasado cinco años desde la última vez que BAO nos invitó a bailar y ahora por fin será una nueva oportunidad. Un único concierto, filmado por SVT.

Desde 2001, BAO ha grabado cerca de 100 composiciones originales de Benny, la mayoría con letras de Björn Ulvaeus.

Acompañados de una pista de baile con faroles de colores, viajaron durante el verano por Suecia y se ofrecieron a bailar, desde Helsingborg en el sur hasta Piteå en el norte. Han lanzado 10 álbumes. Han estado en Svensktoppen con muchos de sus éxitos, incluidos Du Är Min Man/Vår Sista Dans/Fait Accompli, y han recibido cuatro premios Grammy. Todo ello imbuido de su denominador común: ¡¡JUEGO ALEGRÍA!!

Bienvenidos a "Una velada en el Circo con la Orquesta de Benny Andersson"

Duración: 2h

Organizador: Todas las cosas en vivo

Límite de edad: 13 años

Se puede reservar espacio para sillas de ruedas a través de tickets@cirkus.se

https://cirkus.se/sv/events/bao-pa-cirkus/

photos: ABBA Intermezzo International Fan Club 

https://www.facebook.com/abbaintermezzo

https://youtube.com/shorts/RQYEhZ0zDxw?si=k6Svp339Bgie43Hw

 

 video source: BAO - Benny Anderssons Orkester page on facedook 

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 more photos:

https://www.facebook.com/abbathefans/posts/pfbid02cxxZE4a1styjWr8eJZGp2XY6qZuQxPdeTZLKYoU3jXXxxtXgw2Wr3HfS6pNWkVR3l

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