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

For a number of years, we are lucky to have one the world’s leading authorities in design and architecture on our team - Professor Petter Bergerud of the University of Bergen specialises in utilising natural and sustainable materials for building construction. As a personal passion, Petter dares to design structures from snow and ice that are both functional and wonderful to engage with, and 2023 will see he and his team construct our venue on the frozen expanse of Bergsjø. Experience constructing venues from nature’s frozen stuff in often hostile, cold and stormy conditions is a valuable comm ..read more

With the festive season fast approaching, we think that tickets to experience a wonderful Norwegian frozen landscape immersed with amazing sounds and art would be a perfect Christmas present. One annual highlight in our packed programme for 2023, is our legendary midnight concert which would be a great Christmas gift for your partner or group of friends. Don’t forget that Bergsjøstølen Fjellstue offers accommodation & food right next at the festival arena, so you have chance to warm up, share your winter experiences and absorb the lovely views across Bergsjø. Our festival has something for ..read more

2023 We are excited to reveal our fantastic Line Up for our 18th festival from 1st -4th Feb 2023, with an evolving programme putting more emphasis on nature itself, free of sound and light pollution. It would great to see you in the spectacular frozen terrain around Bergsjøstølen. Intimately located inside a specially constructed igloo for 2023 - ice music concerts, art projects and climate science lectures will merge into nature’s winter. Here are some confirmed highlights! Music Creating icy sonic wonder alongside the Ice Music founder Terje Isungset, will be the wonderful singers ..read more

Our 17th annual Ice Music Festival came to a wintery close last Sunday with a wonderful reading by Arnhild Litleré of the great Norwegian novel Is-slottet. This performance rounded off a fantastic 3 day mix of music, dance, spoken word and, of course, winter weather (anyone attending this year’s midnight concert will confirm that the weather gods certainly provided a dramatic accompaniment to the performances!). So much effort goes into making the festival and we couldn’t manage it without a fantastic team - you know who you are - huge thank yous… Staging any outdoor concert can be tricky wea ..read more