Winter Won’t Be Quiet – NWB 2026 Happens 5–7 February

Northern Winter Beat: A gathering of curious minds and essential music in the heart of winter.

Or just a music festival in the deep freeze of the post-holiday comedown — born not from commerce, but from a stubborn urge to create warmth, light and meaning when the season offers the least of it. A celebration of chaotic beauty, joyful oddity, and global sound, shared with open ears and open minds.

We invite you to join a gently idealistic, intentionally unpolished mission: to come together, stay warm, and mark the year’s beginning with something that feels real.

Since 2013, NWB has been organized non-profit by 1000Fryd, Huset i Hasserisgade, Studenterhuset and everyone else who feels like making it happen. In the streets, in the bars, in the churches and in the rooms that shape our city — we meet where the music resonates best.

Here are the first artists announced for Northern Winter Beat 2026 We’re kicking off the year with a glowing lineup of boundary-pushing sounds and powerful live performances. From psychedelic noise and funeral folk to electric jazz, ritualistic tones, and kraut-driven energy.

NWB 2026 features:

• Motorpsycho (NO)
• Mats Erlandsson + Yair Elazar Glotman (SE/DE)
• Elori Saxl (UK)
• Maria W Horn & Sara Parkman: Funeral Folk (SE)
• Danalogue (UK)
• Hedvig Mollestad Trio (NO)
• Caspar Brötzmann Massaker (DE)
• Den Der Hale (SE)
• Jim Ghedi (UK)
• Snapped Ankles (UK)
• Joshua Murphy (AUS)

More artists to be announced.