The Eiffel Tower has been teleported onto Bergsjø. Foto by Emile Holba. With happy audiences and sold out concerts, the 19th annual Ice Music Festival is in full swing and now entering our final day of concerts. The sun is out, zero wind and fresh snow clouds on the horizon. Perfect weather to see the 7.8m ice tower constructed by Petter & Are Bergerud (we promise to hand the tower back before the Parisians notice it is missing). Eerie primeval sounds were emitted by the joik supremo Torgeir Vassvik, who’s voice and seasoned dreadlocks transfixed our igloo audience. With Terje’s persuasio ..read more

A special set of Arctic concerts. We are very excited to stage the Ice Music Festival with a set of outdoor concerts and art installations combined with a science camp in Ilulissat, Greenland on the 9th and 10th of March 2024. Taking place in addition to our annual Ice Music festival in Bergsjø, the Greenland Sessions, will be performed with a view of the stunning UNESCO world heritage site, Ilulissat Icefjord, on the west coast of Greenland. Ilulissat Icefjord is located 250km north of the Arctic Circle, with the mighty Sermeq Kujalleq glacier and its massive ice bergs. Sermeq Kujalleq is one ..read more

Our legendary Ice Bass Drum lays the sonic foundation to sound of Ice Music. Sculpted from freshly harvested lake ice each year, our bass drums dig deep - so much so, we recorded over 15 seconds of reverberation from this ice bass drum. The best way to listen to the intricate sounds of Ice Music, is being present in our specially built near silent igloos - which allows for very note to float around the audience. Located on Bergsjø, a frozen lake under peaceful dark skies near Ål, our festival returns in Feb 2024 to once again enthral music fans and people seeking solace in nature. Tickets are ..read more

…even with Christmas office parties in full swing and plans for the Christmas meal being arranged, there’s still time to surprise a loved one or music fan the chance to experience Ice Music in a very intimate setting - by gifting them an Ice Music Igloo concert experience in February 2024. You can buy tickets from our Tikkio shop and pick a date. We really look forward to welcoming you into our cosy igloo ..read more

We’re thrilled to announce our 2024 Line-Up. Taking place under a full moon from Feb 19th - 24th 2024, we return for our 19th year with a line up putting more emphasis on winter nature itself, free of sound and light pollution. The purest way to experience the ethereal sounds of Ice Music! Due to glowing audience feedback, we will continue with a series of specially constructed igloo concerts. The cold, dark skies above Bergsjø create a truly magical atmosphere in winter and having the chance to experience Ice Music in this way is one of life’s treasures. Our headline artist in 2024 is the fan ..read more

One week ago our 18th Ice Music Festival Norway closed - leaving our igloo & ice castle venues, and ice instruments frozen momentarily in time - waiting for the spring sun to melt them back into nature. Celebrating music, art & sound installations, along with and a greater understanding of the science underpinning climate change, we welcomed a brilliant and enthralled audience who marvelled at the raw, windswept winter landscape that surrounds Bergsjø. Brilliant, near silent and intimate performances in our cosy igloo contrasted with the confident swagger of hip hop beats over at our i ..read more

Ice Music Pioneer Terje Isungset opened our 18th festival last night with a sublime and delicate igloo concert. The inside of the igloo was extremely quiet, so every note and sound from the ice really sung - leading to an intimate sonic experience that our audience loved. More igloo concerts are being performed today, tomorrow and Saturday. Very limited tickets are left, so be quick to grab the last ones. Please head over to our TicketMaster shop. The expert climate science team from Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, led by Professor Kerim H Nisancioglu, arrived yesterday and worked into t ..read more

After 2 days of storm force weather up here at Bergsjøstølen, we now have calm skies, no wind and gently falling snow. In short, we are now back on track producing this year’s festival - phew! On with ice extraction, igloo construction, building the ice castle and forming the ice music instruments. We have a great team comprised of  design students from Makerere University in Uganda, design students from Norway, Hungary, Poland, Iran, Australia, Spain and Slovenia! You can read more about the Common Ground Project here. You can still buy tickets over at our TicketMaster shop, however ther ..read more

Esteemed magazine TIME has recently published a report from our 2022 Ice Music Festivsal, written by a child that attended. You can read Eivind Sehl Mørch’s experience witnessing the magic of Ice Music here The Kid Report: Musical Nature Thank you to TIME editor Jaime Joyce for arranging the article! Our wonderful location is on the frozen lake at Bergsjøstølen, Ål. Information about how to get to Bergsjøstølen can be found here. Tickets can be brought via our TicketMaster shop, and please follow us on Instagram and Facebook. We are really looking forward to greeting you all again - surrounde ..read more

As our 18th annual Ice Music Festival draws closer, we are really pleased to offer extra fun in the snø with a horse and sleigh ride with local business Gjeldokk Hestesenter. A trip up on the mountain grazing pasture with the Gjeldokks-farmer Olav Andres. Olva will take you on the ride in a combination of snowmobile and horse & sled. He will tell you about how he runs his mountain farm with 30 Angus cows, and serves lunch with meat from animals that have grazed in the very area you drive through. The pasture is located a mile inside the mountain within Bergsjostolen, so now you really g ..read more