"(Katarina Henryson) " "(Katarina Henryson) Thank you very much." "Thank you very much and a warm welcome to the concert." "We are so happy that you are here." "Maybe you've already figured out one of tonight's themes:" ""In The Middle Of Life"." "That's where we are, if you're wondering." "It's a nice place to be." "One looks back and there's still some future to look forward to, I hope." "However, the first song was a new song written by Anders Edenroth." "The next song is also brand new." ""Are You Coming To Me", written by Peder Karlsson." "There's Peder." "(Margareta Bengston Jalkéus) " "(Margareta Bengston Jalkéus) Thank you." "It's a true joy for us to be here tonight." "We have a lot to celebrate." "It's our 20th anniversay this season." "We've also made a new record that we're very proud of." "We'll be mixing old and new songs tonight." "We've dusted off some old favourites that we want to sing for you." "The next song was written some ten years ago." "(Anders Edenroth) " "(Anders Edenroth) Thank you very much." "We've been on the go for 20 years now." "We were very young indeed when we started." "Thank you, I didn't mean it like that." "Thanks, thanks, thanks." "We've performed this song for over 10 years." "Another song we've performed for a long time is "Monicas vals", with music by Bill Evans and lyrics by Beppe Wolgers." "It starts like this:" ""Enkel, vacker, öm är min valsmelodi"." "Once we sang it for an American woman, who said" "(she didn't understand the lyrics but she said):" ""That first word, "enkel"." "Margareta sings it so divinely beautifully." "It's Swedish for "angel", isn't it?"" "I didn't have the heart to tell her that it means "simple"." "This is "Monicas vals"." "(Anders Edenroth) " "(Anders Edenroth) Thank you." "Thank you very much." "I sing a bit myself, as you've noticed." "Last summer I sang at a weddding in the Stockholm archipelago." "The reception was held in a garden." "Suddenly helicopters started hovering above and photographers with giant lenses appeared in the bushes." "Paparazzi photographers." "But they weren't interested in me." "The house next door had just been sold to the golf star Tiger Woods and his Swedish fiancée." "The international media wanted to take pictures of Tiger and his celebrity friends." "There were no celebrities at our party." "After a while, the helicopters and the photograpers realised this and left." "We felt totally insignificant and uninteresting." "I guess the moral of the story is:" "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that... [swing]" "(Peder Karlsson) " "Thank you." "We'll continue with one of my songs." "I woke up one morning with the song in my head." "The song is called "Mister Father"." "(Anders Edenroth)" "Thank you and welcome back from the intermission." "That was "Words" from our new record." "It's about words." "Sometimes you don't need words to describe a feeling." "This is a feeling for a small village in the Faeroes called Gøta." "(Peder Karlsson) " "(Peder Karlsson) Thank you very much." "We visited the Faeroes Islands some years ago." "It was a great experience." "Not least listening to their exciting music." "It's very green over there." "Maybe because it's so windy that trees can't grow there." "Or maybe because the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence." "The reason for this is that when you look at the grass on the other side you see the entire blade of grass." "But your own grass you see it from above, so you see only a dot." "This is "The Grass Grows Greener"." "(Anders Jalkéus) " "(Anders Jalkéus) Thanks." "Thank you very much." "We would like to take you on a journey through time and space." "We started 20 years ago." "One of the first songs we learned was Erroll Garner's ballad "Misty"." "We have looked in our archives and found an old recording from that time." "So, here is "Misty" by Erroll Garner with The Real Group and The Real Group." "(Margareta Bengston Jalkéus)" "It's quite moving to hear that youth choir." "On our new record, we've had the privilege to collaborate with some of the Sweden's finest jazz musicians." "If you compare a song to a painting you could say that the musicians have made sound sketches for us to sing and to be inspired by." "We removed the instruments, leaving our voices with then represent the painting." "It was great fun working like this." "They've also made some arrangements for us." "Magnus Lindgren has written the arrangement for our next song." "The song is written by Katarina:" ""I Tried"" "(Katarina Henryson) " "(Katarina Henryson) "Cage Of Promises", "Cage Of Promises"" "Anders Edenroth wrote this song for his wife for their wedding." "We understand that it's been sung at many other weddings." "It's called "A Life For Me"" "(Anders Jalkéus) " "(Anders Jalkéus) Thank you." "Now it's time for our last song." "We want to end with something that has inspired us a great deal over the years:" "Big Band Music, and especially Count Basie's Big Band." "It was difficult to pick just one song, so we picked five." "We'd like to end with a medley of Count Basie classics." "Thank you." "(Anders Edenroth)" "Thank you for asking us to sing another song." "Or perhaps we should." "You're a wonderful audience." "So, here's an old classic." "(Peder Karlsson) " "(Peder Karlsson) Go, Stockholm, go." "You can only say that in Stockholm." "You're really cool, so we'll sing a song that we haven't performed much on this tour." "It's written by ABBA's sound technician and co-producer Michael B. Tretow, who wrote many cool songs." "It's a story about an incredibly intelligent man who built a very clever machine." "(Katarina Henryson) " "(Katarina Henryson) Thank you all." "We aren't leaving." "Are you?" "Good because we want to sing another song." "Thank you so very much!" "Yes, another song." "Thanks for sitting down." "It's incredible to be here." "We held our first diploma concert here." "Perhaps some of you are also celebrating your 20th anniversary with us." "In any case this evening is special." "We wish to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for being here to share this evening with us." "Povel Ramel has written a song that expresses our feelings." "Thank you and good night."