Out now: Trine Rein UNPLUGGED

Finally!😍 A day to really celebrate!🎉💃🏻✨ I’ve been sooo excited to share this album with you guys, and now I can! I gotta say, I’m really happy with the way it turned out, much thanks to my amazing producer, Johannes Groth🙏🏼 Not to mention the awesome musicians who contributed with their magic🩷

On this album, you will find new arrangements for some of the songs that have been with me ever since the beginning of my career - songs like Just Missed the Train, Torn, Stay With Me Baby and Never Far Away. Torn gets a special treatment this time as it is our 30th anniversary together. It’s like the make-over of an old friend, and it kinda feels like a new spring to me, these songs, in their new, acoustic wrappings. Also, we added all of five original songs, all written for this particular album.

In time, I will present the entire album with a special update for each of the tracks. You can find all the lyrics for this album by clicking on the Music-link.

I give you my heartfelt lyrics, melodies, emotions and genuine human touch in my Trine Rein Unplugged - and I hope you like it:

Trine Rein Unplugged album cover

Behind the instruments are hand picked musicians from Norway:

Lars-Erik Dahle on bass/stand up bass/BGVs
Kristian Tybakken on drums/percussion
Øyvind Smidt on violin
Johannes Groth on piano/Hammond/guitars/mandolin/percussion/BGVs

Johannes produced, edited, arranged and mixed the album
Thomas Berg on mastering

And finally, Yours truly on lead vox and BGVs

Now, go stream it! Go, go, go!😄🎶🙏🏼

Much love,
Trine😊✨💛

Pre-save my new album🤩

You can now pre-save my upcoming album Trine Rein Unplugged 🎶

I’m very excited to share this with you guys. Last fall, and all through the winter, we have been working tirelessly to finish this acoustic album.

The album drops March 13 at 12:00 AM, and when you pre-save it to your favorite streaming service, you’ll be among the first to hear it as soon as it’s released✨

The album features nine tracks: four acoustic versions of some of my most well-known songs, and five brand new tracks written by my incredible producer, partner-in-crime, and all-round wizard Johannes Groth — together with yours truly 💛

‘Trine Rein Unplugged’ album cover

Asides from Johannes Groth himself on piano, guitars, mandolin, Hammond, percussion and BGVs, the musicians to add their magic to the tracks are:

Lars-Erik Dahle on bass/upright bass/BGVs
Kristian Tybakken on drums/percussion
Øyvind Smidt on violin

Produced, edited and mixed by Johannes Groth
Mastered by Thomas Berg

Hit pre-save and be ready when the music goes live 🤘🏼😎

Thank you for being here and for supporting the music — it truly means the world to me🙏🏼🩷

With love,
Trine🥰🎶

'Torn' anno 2026!🎶😃

I’m so excited to break these news: This year is the 30th anniversary for my version of ‘Torn’!🎉🎶 Can you even believe it has been all of 30 years since I first released that song back in 1996?😅

Well, I felt it was time to revisit this gem of a song, a song that has almost as many various recordings as it has followers. Through the years, I have probably played this song in every single concert I have performed, along with Just Missed the Train and Stay With me Baby.

I have had a great success with playing acoustic concerts in smaller clubs and venues all over the country, just me and my guitar player to back me up. It seems to be a more popular way of enjoying music when the performance is more intimate and stripped down - and so, I have decided to acoustically materialize some of the songs from my back catalogue in addition to a few newly written songs for the occasion. This new album is called ‘Trine Rein Unplugged’, and will be released on March 13th this year. But before that, I’ll give you my brand new, acoustic version of ‘Torn’ from the upcoming album!

Want to pre-save it and be the first to hear it once it is released? Please click HERE to pre-save it, and hang tight until the release on Friday, Feb. 20th. That’s the end of this week already!😃

Trine Rein

I hope you will enjoy this new version of ‘Torn’.

With Love,
Trine🥰🎶

A belated happy new year!✨

Dear followers,

I hope you have all had a wonderful start in the new year. Clean slight and all that. In my experience, January oftentimes feels like a stressful time, but it’s also a time for afterthought. Time flies! And yet, at the same time, when there’s so much to look forward to, suddenly the days seem long. I can’t decide. Anyway - for the new year, I have lots of plans, some of which aren’t even my own! I’ll get back to that later, but for now, I will share my own plans with you here.

First up, I’m working on finishing my upcoming new album, ‘Trine Rein Unplugged’. Last November, I did release a new single from this album, and can you believe it - I totally forgot to mention about it here!🙈 How is that even possible? I must be getting old!😵‍💫 I’ll leave you a link to it here so you can check it out. I’m quite happy with it, actually! It’s called ‘When it Comes to Life’. And it’s about… well, life.

Trine Rein ‘When it Comes to Life’ single cover

The album is set for release sometime towards the end of February, or maybe mid-March. It depends on when I can get it finished. My awesome producer and co-writer, Johannes Groth, is working long days hoping to get it done as soon as possible. I’m excited! I’ll tell you more about it soon!😉

Once the album is out, it’s time to start touring again🎶 I will be visiting various venues in Norway with my guitar player, Olve Flakne, to play songs from the new album along with many of the other songs I love to sing. I’m glad to be able to perform live, acoustically and intimately in light of all the digital AI-driven media we have to relate to these days. Nothing beats the real thing with heart, soul and human integrity, if you ask me. Click here for an overview - this will be updated as we go along:

TRINE REIN CONCERTS

Trine Rein Unplugged concerts

Speaking of which, I have finally decided to open a door I have kept shut for all my years as an artist: I am going to offer to sing at funerals.

Yes, I find it to be the right time to do this now. I think I have the proper amount life experience needed to be able to perform profoundly at such occasions. And besides, I think it has never been more important to front real live music for real life experiences than now. Whether you are getting married or in a situation where you have to say goodbye to a loved one, these vulnerable moments disurve an authentic human touch and musical frame around the ceremony.

I have added a new link in my menu called

SPECIAL OCCASIONS (Norwegian only)

where you can find more information via my new profile.

There is so much more to tell about my upcoming events for 2026, but I will have to get back to this soon. Stay tuned!

Much love,
Trine🥰

Wishing you all a very merry Christmas!🎄✨🎊❤️

Christmas is here, and o’boy do I love Christmas!!🤩 I just finished 9 wonderful shows guesting “Svartnissen” at Sola kulturhus in Norway through December - “Svartnissen” means something like “Black Santa”, and is originally a family Christmas show about how “Black Santa” steals Christmas. This year, I was guesting the grown-up show kind of like when ‘Elton John guested the Muppet Show’ - and it was such a wonderful learning experience getting to work with professional actors all through December. All the shows were completely sold out, and for the final show, my husband showed up, no less, and Santa’s helpers soon wrote him into the script to participate in the show himself. It was epic!😂 And I have never experienced such a response from the audience ever as they discovered to their great surprise that Lars Monsen was suddenly a part of the show.

This was the best way to lead up to Christmas with my family, and in only a few minutes, Christmas is here.

My plan is to eat way too much Christmas goodies, do a kick bike run with my dog, Chanti, watch all the Christmas movies on TV, and do the finishing touches on our Christmas dinner before joining my family for the celebrations.

I know I’m blessed beyond imagination, and I am grateful for that. All the thoughts and prayers in the world will never help those in need, only acts of kindness and generosity will. I also know that one can not do it all, but we all can do a lot to make a change. The need for help is always there, not only around Christmas. So, to the best of my ability, I support a few chosen relief organisations all year around, and sometimes a little extra for Christmas. I hope the help reaches families in need, and that it can make a positive change in their lives.

On that note, I want to wish you all a very merry Christmas where ever you are celebrating the Holidays, and I am much looking forward to next year’s many, many events coming up!

Warm Christmas hugs,
Trine🥰🎄✨🎊🎶🙏🏼☺️

Coming up on Advent, small recap of recent weeks🕯️🎄

Almost hard to believe, but the countdown for Christmas is beginning tomorrow!✨🎊

On Nov. 8, we finished my Queen of Soul-tour with a bang in Mandal this year. Needless to say, I needed a moment of rest from touring after juggling all of two tours at the same time! One was, of course, my own touring project with my tribute to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. The other tour was performed parallel on the off days from Queen of Soul with my better half, Lars Monsen. We toured together between the east and west of Norway, him doing his speech performance, and I was in charge of the merch before and after his performances. Together we are dynamite, and even though it entailed a lot of traveling and driving, at least we got to spend some good quality time together❤️

Nov. 7. became a very special and memorable day for us. Not only was Nov. 7. my 55th birthday, it was also our 10 years wedding anniversary🎉 As Lars had lost his wedding ring a few years back, we decided it would be a great opportunity to replace it with a new one, and also to renew our wedding vows. Since on the same date, I had a Queen of Soul-show in Sandnes kulturhus, and we happened to be in the same town, we wanted to give my audience the surprise of a lifetime. With the assistance from Pastor Christian who just happened to be a member of the Gospel choir Abraham - engaged for the evening show - we paused my show performance in order to renew our vows right there on stage. It was magic, and a wonderful occasion to share with my audience and loyal followers. Thank you for being there!🙏🏼

This week has been quite a hectic one, traveling across half the country to rehearse and perform concerts every other day. Finishing off in a sold out Rauma kulturhus with Åndalsnes Big Band tonight, I will be heading south tomorrow to prepare December’s performances in Sola kulturhus as a guest star with ‘Svartnissen’. I can’t wait to meet the ensemble who will be my “December family” of this year. I expect a lot of great laughs and lots of love with the really professional actors I will have the honor of performing alongside with. All the shows are pretty much sold out, and this year’s ticket sales have been an all time high🥳 What a show to look forward to!😃

Following Christmas - the most wonderful time of the year with peaceful days surrounded by my loving family. I feel really, really blessed to have all this to look forward to, painfully aware of the fact that there are many out there with quite different realities❤️

Long update - gotta check in more often, I guess!😄

Wishing you a blessed day where ever you are!✨
With love,
Trine🥰🎶

Last five: Queen of Soul - a tribute to Aretha Franklin!🤩🎶

Now or never - I’m doing the last five shows of my tribute to Aretha Franklin this fall, ‘Queen of Soul’, starting on Thursday, Oct. 23. at Rådhusteateret, Ski. I’m really, really excited to go out on the road again with my smashing band and to work with all the really fantastic local choirs on our way.

My sequence dress is ready, voice is warmed up, and we are armed to our teeth in sooooooul music!😄🥳🎶

Here are the tour dates - and here is where you find your TICKETS.

WELCOME all my wonderful followers! Let’s make it a really great night in the name of soul, gospel, R&B, funk and ARETHA FRANKLIN!💃🏻🍂🍁🎉

Hugs!
Trine🥰

A packed concert season awaits!🍂🍁☀️😃

I love the summertime! But when the fall season knocks on the door with it’s furious winds erasing the last bit of summerlike temperatures or ideas of walking barefoot in the sand, I warmly welcome the new season filled with colorful leaves on the trees and ground, fire in the fireplace and candle light dinners.

Fall season is great for concerts! And this fall, I have lined up several various concerts where you can catch me doing my Queen of Soul-tribute show to Aretha Franklin, Christmas concerts with Ålesund bigband, a very special Christmas concert with the local musicians at beautiful Myreløda, or as a guest artist with the adult version of this year’s Svartnissen at Sola Kulturhus. The options are many, and I hope to see you at one of the venues I visit in the next few months. You can find your preferred concert and ticket links HERE

So button up for the fall season, and buckle up for the concert season!😃🎶 See you soon!

Hugs!
Trine🥰🍁🍂

New music, new t-shirts, new webshop, more concerts....

This fall is going to really ROCK in so many ways! Where to begin?

First of all, I’m preparing for a new ‘Queen of Soul’-tour this fall, my tribute concert to Aretha Franklin. Just like last time, I have invited several great local choirs to really ensure the real Aretha Franklin vibe, and my band is armed to their teeth in skills and energy. Watch out!😄

Besides from preparing this 2.0 Queen of Soul tour, I am finally back in songwriter mode. The great news is, I am working on a new album!!🥳🎶 This will be my long-time-coming unplugged album based on the hundreds of acoustic concerts I have played through the years. So many of my followers keep asking me where to buy this or that version of a song I have done live. Finally, I am formalizing the concept by recording it along with some new songs. I am joining talents with my wonderful buddy, musician, producer, songwriter and bandleader Johannes Groth for this project, and I am really, really excited about it. Can’t wait to share!🥰

This week, my brand new T-shirts came in!🤩 I have produced a small amount of black and vintage white unisex T-shirts for my brand new webshop, and they are available in all sizes as we speak. Here is where you can find them.

Hello

Also, I did manage to locate a small batch of my latest album, ‘Alive’ as I was onboarding a new platform for my webshop. These are the final copies of this special edition album, and they are, of course, autographed. First come-first serve.

Finally - and this is something I am much looking forward to - this December, I have been invited to guest star with the reindeers in Svartnissen - a famous, annual show located in Sola kulturhus. It will probably be the most fun December I can remember, acting and singing together with this hilarious bunch of talents. My stomach muscles will be tight by the time we get to Christmas this year. If you live anywhere close to Sola, make sure you catch one of the shows this year. You won’t regret it!😄

I hope to see you out there sometime this fall. My tour list is up to date, so take your pick. And, if you can’t catch any of my concerts, at least my new webshop is filled with music and merch you might enjoy.

Happy fall season!
Trine🥰🎶🍁🍂

Queen of Soul 2.0!🤩🎶

Many of my followers have asked me whether I’m doing more of my ‘Queen of Soul’-shows, my tribute to Aretha Franklin - and the answer is: YESSSSS!!!!🥳😃

This fall, we have set up a few more venues to visit, and I am thrilled to say I get to meet yet another great bunch of local choirs for this one, too! I’m bringing my full band of fabulous musicians, and my sequins are polished for the ride💃🏻

This will be a night of awesome Aretha Franklin soul music, great stories from her life, and a sing-a-long repertoire for all to enjoy! Tickets are out - see ya!😃

Soulful hugs!
Trine😄🎶

Switching over to Bandsintown - check out my upcoming concerts! 🎶😃

Hey folks!😎

Lots of exciting things on the horizon these days, and if you have checked out my events link lately, you may have noticed that there has been a switch in design. After several years of using Songkick as my preferred events manager, I have recently had to switch over to using Bandsintown as my new platform. The reason being that Songkick unfortunately are no longer partnered with Spotify, which means my concerts will no longer be relayed to my Spotify followers. I’ve been a happy user of Songkick up until their divorce from Spotify, and I have enjoyed their incredible customer services for years.

With Bandsintown, you will still be able to see my upcoming concerts on Spotify as well as here on my website, and you are welcome to follow me as an artist in order to never miss out on a concert near you💖

I’m excited to see how Bandsintown will be able to help me get the message out to you guys, and I’m looking forward to seeing you out there when I visit your hometown🤘🏼

More updates on upcoming concerts are in the pipeline, but for now, please feel free to check out my brand new concert planner engine here.

Musically,
Trine🎶❤️

Happy New Year - and upcoming shows!🥳

Happy New Year to all my dear followers! I hope the new year has started in a great way for you!🎉☀️❄️

First up this year is a mini tour with my husband, no less! We decided to put together a small celebration for ‘The Year of the Outdoors’ here in Norway. Syncing up our schedules is quite challenging, but we managed to find four dates to kick off our show. Little did we know how fast the tickets would sell out, and now we are putting up extra shows for three of the venues!😃

The show will be a mixture of Lars Monsen sharing personal stories, pictures and videos from his latest experiences in the wilderness, spiced up by my latest music to tie it all together. The topics are many, and besides from always focusing on the great rewards of experiencing the wild, Lars also touches in on the changes he has noticed due to climate change.

We are looking forward to sharing the same stage again as it has been more than a decade since we last went on tour together. Tickets are available now, and we can’t wait to see you out there!

Welcome to celebrate ‘The Year of the Outdoors’ with us: Lars Monsen feirer ‘Friluftslivets år’ med musikalske innslag av Trine Rein!

Please click here for tickets: TICKETS

With love,
Trine (& Lars!)😊🎶⛺️

Merry Christmas - and a teaser for 2025🎊✨🎶

2024 is coming to an end, and what a year it has been! In addition to doing several acoustic performances with my wonderful guitar player, Olve Flakne, the major project of 2024 was of course, my 'Queen of Soul - a tribute to Aretha Franklin’ tour. So many people came to see us, and the feedback was quite overwhelming! So overwhelming, in fact, that I have decided to go for another round with my ‘Queen of Soul’ tour in 2025!😃🎶 New dates are being booked as we speak, and the tickets will of course be announced here, and via my newsletters, once the tour is ready to be launched. Stay tuned!😉

Another exciting event for 2025 is the fact that I’m going on a mini tour with my husband, Lars Monsen!🤩 We haven’t shared the same stage in over a decade, and I’m thrilled to tell you that we are going on tour with a brand new show called ‘Lars Monsen feirer Friluftslivets år!’ (‘Lars Monsen celebrates the Year of the Outdoors’) - with me tying it all together with music from my own repertoire. We are only visiting a very few venues - all of four places - and tickets are already in sale for three of these.

Check out the links here: ‘Lars Monsen celebrates the Year of the Outdoors’

Tickets are going fast for these venues, so my advice is to not wait too long before you secure yours if you want to catch our show.

In addition to these major projects for 2025, I will be throwing concerts in various venues both with and without other ensembles throughout the year. You can always check out my list of events to stay tuned - and even sign up to follow me on Songkick to make sure you never miss a show near you.

I’m looking forward to seeing you in the new year - but first I would like to wish all my followers a very merry Christmas, and a fantastically music filled new year in the name of peace, tranquillity and JOY!

Much love, and a big Christmas HUG from
Trine🥰🎊🎶✨❤️

The Queen of Soul-tour is on the road!

And what a start it was! The opening show was completely sold out, with a waiting list of people who wanted to catch the ‘Queen of Soul - a tribute to Aretha Franklin’-show! Several of the upcoming concerts already have ‘Few tickets’, and the local choirs in every city we visit are rehearsing for, and much anticipating our show.

My guest artists, Inger Lise Hope (winner of this year’s ‘The Voice’) and Elise Nærø who is onboarding in Fosnavåg and Sunndal (also a previous ‘The Voice’-participant) lift the concerts to another level with their unique performances and beautiful voices. The band is really top notch, delivering wonderful arrangements, and creating profound music experiences. I even have my favorite engineer, Erik Valderhaug, - normally viewed as the 5th musician in any band - helping me produce and carry out the content of each show to the tee. I couldn’t be happier with my band and crew, and to meet eager and anticipating local choirs at every venue adds an extra spice to the entire tour.

See you soon!

“Needless to say, I am having a really great time performing this show throughout Norway, and I feel more energetic than I have in a long time.

Needless to say, I am having a really great time performing this show throughout Norway, and I feel more energetic than I have in a long time. Learning about the life and career of the Queen of Soul to tell her story to my audience has been a real treat. There is so much I didn’t know about the artist who has inspired me, and millions of others, throughout her career spanning over more than 60 years. In comparison, my career has merely just started in with my 30-some years of being an artist in the music business. What an inspiration she is!

Getting a chance to dig into parts of her back catalogue of music which I had never heard before, it has been an incredibly interesting musical ride as well. Some of her less famous songs had to get a slot in my tribute show to the Queen of Soul, and to be able to perform these genres, I had to rehearse a lot before I was ready. After all, Aretha Franklin was compared to great singers like Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald no less in her younger years, so I’d say it’s quite a reach to try to simulate this part of her legacy.

Wishing you all welcome to see my show if we visit a place near you. Here is an overview of the rest of the tour, with links to the tickets in each venue.

TICKETS to ‘Queen of Soul - a tribute to Aretha Franklin’

Best,
Trine😊🎶

Queen of Soul - the tickets are out now!

Yay! Another milestone has been reached, - and I’m thrilled to announce that the tickets are now available for my upcoming tour ‘Queen of Soul - a tribute to Aretha Franklin!’

With me is guest artist Inger Lise Hope from this year’s ‘The Voice’ on TV2 - she will be travelling with me for (almost!) the entire tour, except for Oct. 25-26 when we visit Fosnavåg and Sunndal. For these two dates, I have invited another great voice from and earlier season of ‘The Voice’, namely Elise Nærø!😃

Also, I have invited local choirs to join us in every concert - and my band…. whew!!! They absolutely ROCK!! I am so excited about this!🥳🤩

Allow me to introduce my band:

Bandleader, keyboards/BGVs: Johannes Groth
Bass/BGVs: Lars Erik Dahle
Drums: Kim Ofstad
Guitar/BGVs: Olve Flakne

Sound/technical engineer: Erik Valderhaug

Here are the local choirs who will be joining us on the road:

Sola kulturhus: Gospelkoret Abraham
City Scene, Fredrikstad: Onsøy Gospel
Narvik kulturhus: Absolutt Gospel
Kulturhuset Finnsnes: Senja Gospel
Meieriet kulturhus, Leknes: Vestvågøy Gospelkor
Lofoten kulturhus, Svolvær: Soul Savvy
Fosnavåg konserthus: Tolvtetten
Sunndal kulturhus: JazzåKoret
Ullensaker kulturhus: Good Vibrations Showkor & Gospelkoret Vision
Alles kulturhus, Hønefoss: Showkoret
Ås kulturhus: Ås Gospelkor
Chat Noir, Oslo: Gospelkoret Vision
Lillestrøm kultursenter: Gospelkoret Vision

Let’s look forward to this together! Here is the ticket link - see you this fall!💃🏻🎶

Happy Easter!🐣☀️
Enthusiastically,
Trine💛🧡🎶😃

My new show: QUEEN OF SOUL - a tribute to Aretha Franklin!

It’s official! I’m so excited to announce my new, upcoming show, a tribute to one of my biggest inspirations, the one and only, the Queen of Soul - Aretha Franklin!!

She tops the Rolling Stone’s list of the world’s 200 best pop singers of the last 100 years. She has been awarded 20 Grammy awards, and has through 50 years been one of the biggest inspirations to generations of singers. By no coincidence was she given the name ‘Queen of Soul’, and few other artists deserve a tribute more than the fabulous Aretha Franklin!

I can humbly say that it is in deep respect and awe that I take this assignment on. Franklin has inspired me for as long as I can remember through a wide variation of genres within pop music. She has inspired me to do everything from soul, funk, R&B and gospel to pop. No matter what she recorded, she did it with such profoundness that it is impossible not to be moved.

Creating a tribute show for this remarkable artist has been on my wish list for years. Even if I never had a chance to see my inspiration live in concert, in a funny way our roads seem to have crossed throughout our lives. You will hear some of the stories where the universe has tied our souls together outside of space and time, and you will also learn a lot about the artists life and career.

In this show, I’m looking forward to singing some of Aretha Franklin’s biggest hit songs like ‘Respect’, ‘Think’ and ‘Natural Woman’. On stage, I will also invite local choirs to accompany me, and I can ensure you this will be a night to remember!

Tickets for the shows will be launched successively, and you are welcome to follow my events page to see if I am visiting a venue near you.

Welcome to a musical Queen-of-Soul party night!💃🏻🥳😃

With love,
Trine😊✨💫🎶

A slow year picking up

A slow year is finally picking up a little speed, and I’m beginning to feel more perky again. Feel like I’m coming out from the state of a zombie after suffering from a case of no energy, no inspiration and just dragging along for the ride.

To get back into shape, I have been working out three-four times a week, receiving various treatments to heal, keeping away from work, and tried to do things that I normally love to do. In between, I’ve had a few concerts here and there, but no touring in sequence. My batteries seem to finally be charging again, and I’m looking forward to getting back in the saddle.

Some of the treatments I’ve been receiving are from my go-to acupuncturist who also does homeopathic treatments as well as neuroreflexology. She is amazing!❤️🙏🏼 Also, I’ve been going to a physical therapist to try to loosen up some of the physical blockages in my body. He is also amazing! I’ve been seeing an incredible speech therapist who turned out to know all there is to know about the classical singing voice - and thus I’m in the middle of a very exciting and inspiring project in trying to accomplish vocal stretches I have never even dreamed of controlling!

Finally, I’ve done a lot of sailing. What a blessing to have introduced this hobby into my life! I have gotten so many wonderful, new friends in sailing, learned so much, and experienced more during these two seasons I’ve been a part of a sailing organization.

A very important part of my life now is my new furry friend, my puppy Chanti. If you have been following me, she is almost scaringly much alike my previous “heart”, Joy. I sometimes catch myself in calling her Joy, but her name is Chanti. Isn’t she just adorable?😍

Coming up now are a few concerts before we dive into another Christmas. For the first time in - I don’t know how many years - I’m NOT doing my own Christmas tour, Julegaven (The Gift of Christmas). However, I will be doing some concerts together with other choirs and bands that I’m much looking forward to.

Please check out my events calendar to see if I’m visiting a place near you: Trine Rein Concerts

I want to thank you all for your patience, and I really hope to see you out there soon again. I miss you!🙏🏼💕

With Love,

Trine🥰🎶🐾🍁🍂

Midsummer night, and the heat is on!

I looove summer with a passion! June 21st is the longest day of the year, meaning the lightest day before the days begin to get shorter towards winter time. In Norway, we celebrate this day on the 23. of June. This is a major celebration in Sweden, too, as we are both blessed with the midnight sun in some parts of our countries.

So why am I rambling about summer and long days? Well…. It has been a time of contemplation, re-charging and re-grouping for me these first six months of the year. I don’t know if it is a case of long-covid, or a possible burn-out as I hit 2023 with dead batteries. The pandemic with all it’s restrictions and uncertainties definitely took a toll, and I have had to take a really long break from my career as a singer.

Spring and summer with it’s promises of lighter days, new beginnings and the hope of happy times to come have so far helped me to climb back into the saddle. I’ve also got some incredible helpers (angles!) in my life to help me through rough times🙏🏼

Last year, I took up sailing as a hobby, and it has given me a lot of inspiration. I also started on a journey to learn more about real estate investments, and basically shut out everything that had to do with music and concerts in order to make myself miss a life on the road.

Funnily enough, all this happened as I entered into my 30 year anniversary as a solo artist. It wasn’t my plan to be idle for the first six months of this special anniversary, but that’s life, isn’t is?

Now I’m ready to greet my audience again! I got a few upcoming concerts, both solo, and with other crews. I’m looking forward to seeing you guys out there again, and I hope you will take the opportunity to catch my concerts as they will be quite exclusive (as in; few!) this year.

Please see my events calendar for ticket links and more info - and it is my pleasure to wish you all most welcome to my upcoming shows!

Trine Rein

See you soon!💖

Love,
Trine😊🎶

Happy New Year! Welcome 2023!🎉

WHEW! That pretty much sums up 2022 on my part. And welcome 2023!🤩

I put together a recap of highs and lows from 2022, and needless to say, it was a challenging year for many reasons:

Recap of Trine Rein’s 2022

In mid-February, the pandemic was basically “cancelled” by the authorities, and along with that, so were all the fundings to support the entertainment business. As the restrictions were lifted, we thought our audience would be celebrating the opening of concert venues and theatres. The opposite happened. Many seemed to have developed new habits and interests during the lockdown periods, and the pandemic was in reality not over at all. Mid-March, we experienced a new high of people with covid-19, and to no surprise, people have been reluctant to gather in larger groups since.

If that wasn’t enough, prices on power/electricity, fuel, gas as well as food prices have skyrocketed, and many people are forced to choose between warming up their houses or paying the rent. No wonder fewer people have the luxury of prioritizing entertainment in times like these.

2022 certainly did have it’s great moments, too. For me, some of those moments happened through my brand new hobby, sailing, that I took up in March. What a blast to learn how to sail! Not to mention, all the new friends I’ve been blessed with!

All in all, I am grateful to be in good health, be surrounded by a loving family and loving friends and colleagues, and to be living in a country in peace.

Anyway, please enjoy my recap of 2022. And with that, I wish you all a very prosperous, joyful and happy new year!🎊🎉💫🎶❤️

With love,
Trine🥰🎶

Coming up: ‘JULEGAVEN’ - my annual Christmas tour😃🎊🎶

Julegaven Christmas tour 2022

Advent is close, and I almost can’t believe another year has passed since my last Christmas tour. Last year was abruptly ended only two thirds into my tour due to mandatory pandemic related restrictions from the authorities. I’m hoping and praying this year will be different.🙏🏼

This year, I have planned a Christmas tour reaching much further north than ever before, and I am thrilled to announce we are doing our opening show in a small town called Fauske - in Fauske church on Nov. 23🤩

With me this year as my special guest artist is Adrian Jørgensen, my good friend and colleague from last year’s Christmas tour. I’m also collaborating with wonderful, local choirs throughout the tour, and in Fauske we are meeting up with ‘Korækte Damer’ who will be joining us for as many as four different Julegaven-concerts in Nordland.

Moving on, we are traveling south, covering the famously beautiful Helgeland’s coast. I’m so excited about that! Moving right along, we are visiting all of seven different cities in Trøndelag county. Ranem Sangforening will be joining us in Skage church, and Trondheim Gospel choir will be joining us for the rest of the churches and venues in Trøndelag.

Finally, we are getting closer to my home turf finishing up the Christmas tour of 30 concerts very close to where I live. Coming home for Christmas has always had a romantic ring to it in my ears🤗

This year’s Julegaven concerts will be filled with both traditional, familiar Christmas carols as well as a few newer songs to celebrate the Holidays. I always strive to leave my audience with a little more than just a concert filled with beautiful music. I want to share something to add to the Christmas spirit, and to take home for afterthought and further discussion. My own personal story - the foundation upon which Julegaven was created - is always a part of my Christmas concerts to invite more people to take part in the true Gift of Christmas.

For a full overview of this year’s Julegaven Christmas tour with ticket links, please click on the picture below.

Meet my Christmas family:

The local choirs:
Korækte Damer (Fauske, Bodø, Gildeskål, Fore)
Haukneskoret (Nesna, Gruben)
Alstahaug Sangkor (Sandnessjøen)
Kor i øyan (Brønnøysund)
Damekoret KVIIN (Solstad i Bindal)
Ranem Sangforening (Skage)
Trondheim Gospelkor (Steinkjer, Stiklestad, Frosta, Skatval, Trondheim, Orkdal, Soknedal)
Rondane Gospelkor (Sør-Fron)
Good Vibrations Showkor (Eidsvoll)
Totengospel (Ås, Bøverbru)
DaCapo (Hønefoss)
Gospelfabrikken (Østensdad, Jar, Bøler)
Celebration Gospel (Holmestrand, Skoger, Kongsberg)
Gospelkoret Moments (Moss, Tune, Eidsberg)

My band/crew:
Olav Torgeir Kopsland - guitars, pedal steel
Kenneth Bjørdal - Hammond organ, keys
Eivind Kløverød - Drums, percussion
Adrian Jørgensen - Guest artist
Trine Rein - Main artist
Helge Taksdal - Sound engineer
MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) - Crew
Reidun Berntsen - Rocksport Booking
Dag Inge Landbakk - Promotion
Media Sør - Advertising
Ticketmaster Norway - Ticket sales

Welcome to JULEGAVEN 2022 - I can’t wait to see you all!🤩🎊🎶

With Love,
Trine❤️🙏🏼