Nordic Foothold

Sigurdsson is a prolific songwriter and has been working with various artists for a long time. He´s best known for his outstanding children´s music and various lyrics for jazz and folk music. For some years he was the manager and later on a board member of the Icelandic Society of Authors and Composers and then a member of the board of STEF (Composers´ Rights Society of Iceland). He was also a member of the board of Nordic Culture Fund from 2011-2018.

Sigurdson´s small independent publishing house and music label DIMMA is well known for both original editions and important editions of world literature, folk music and jazz.

Sigurdsson lives in Reykjavík as a writer, translator, editor and publisher.

Killer Inc as is an independent company that provides PR / management / booking / project management services to artists, festivals, events. We have a broad background from the music industry from, among others, publishing, NRK, multinational record companies, booking, events and festivals.

With 20 years of experience in marketing, promotion, strategy planning, project management, we have worked with Norwegian and international artists such as Kim Rysstad, Iron Maiden, Eldbjørg Hemsing, Kvelertak, Oslo Ess, Emilie Nicolas, Enslaved, Norah Jones, Robbie Williams, Janes Addiction , etc. All genres.

Killer Inc as collaborates with both Norwegian and foreign artists and bands, but concentrates on Norwegian media.

Hilda Sandgren founded MTA Production AB in 2000 after several years of work in the music and theater industry, including as a freelance producer for the Peace & Love festival and for magician Joe Labero, as well as product manager at the record company Bonnier Amigo. Hilda specializes in artistic project management, booking and international collaborations within MTA.

MTA has produced tours around the world. MTA Production strives for equality, democracy and diversity. MTA was the first booking company in Sweden that represented an Equal rooster 50/ 50 female/ male. She was the Ceo of Stockholm Folk Festival, Hesselby Chamber Festival. She teaches and lectures at the Royal Academy of Music, Innovative Music management and is in the management group for Sweden’s largest education in Music & Event in Nyköping.

MTA represents a broad rooster of the finest artists in different genres such as Lena Willemark(folk) Ale Möller, (world) Lisa Miskovsky (pop) and Amanda Ginsburg (jazz) Eva Eastwood (rockabilly) to name a few of them

Johanna Sauramäki is the CEO of Saura Booking Agency. She is an agent, manager and producer with twenty years of experience of live music events in Finland.

Saura Booking Agency was founded in 2014 to focus on the export of urban folk and world music artists that combine modern and contemporary elements to traditional roots.

Artists and bands represented internationally by Saura Booking Agency include Tuuletar, VILDÁ, Maija Kauhanen, Okra Playground, Juurakko and Emma Salokoski. Johanna Sauramäki is also the artistic director of Juuri Nyt Urban Folk Festival and ran a live music club Iholla in Helsinki in 2016-2019.

Dublin-born Tom Sherlock has worked as a full-time music business professional since 1982 when he began employment with leading Irish folk music label, Claddagh Records, which he helped to establish it as one of the world’s largest distributor of traditional music. During his fifteen years with the label Tom worked as A&R manager and also as production manager. Among the artists he worked closely with were The Chieftains. Since 1997 Tom has worked in music management and event consultancy. He has represented many of the leading Irish traditional music acts among them Altan, Liam O’Flynn, The Poet and the Piper (Seamus Heaney & Liam O’Flynn), The Chieftains, etc.. In recent years he has taken on management of the Danish band, Dreamers Circus.

Tom has wide experience of organising tours in the USA, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Japan, China, Australia and has worked in most European countries.
He works as a programming consultant and advisor to a number of festivals.