Leaving 2020 brings mixed feelings to my heart. Looking back, I had both good things and bad things happen in my life. As far as my career goes, most all of my planned concerts ended up being cancelled in light of the pandemic. I had less than ten concerts all together, and my entire Christmas tour, Julegaven (the Christmas Gift) of 35 concerts with local choirs in every church and a mystery guest artist, was cancelled. Instead, I had the opportunity to travel around with a “Lars Monsen Pop up store” visiting many places around Norway, selling the hiking clothes and wilderness gear designed by my husband, Lars. Yes, it was definitely a different year…
Parallell to these sales trips, I was also able to release a series of new singles based on my exciting trip to Nashville and my ‘Nashville sessions’ just before everything shut down in March. I came back with all of 7 new, fully produced and ready to launch singles which I have had the pleasure of sharing with my followers throughout the year. More to come in 2021!🤩
Also, I have had the opportunity to jog my video editing skills in an attempt to create videos for all the new singles. Two of them were recorded and produced by my new helper, Mathias Fossdal, and others were created by myself entirely. You can check them out on my YouTube page where they are all posted as they are released.
Going into 2021, I’m excited about my brand new show, “Femti, Feit & Bitter” (Fifty, Fat & Bitter) with which I will be touring Norway this year. It is a fun show taking a look back on my 50(!!) year long life, as well as sharing music from my entire catalogue. Yes, I did turn 50 last year…!😱Hope to see you out there!
For the new year, I hope we can contain the terrible virus that has caused so much pain and suffering all around the world. In the first week of January, I am releasing a new single called ‘Fighter’. This song is to motivate and inspire to embrace the new year, to keep going no matter what, and to never give in to the challenges in life. If you follow my newsletter (only in Norwegian at this point - my apologies!), you will receive a pre-listen link a few days prior to the release.
I hope to see you all out there as soon as we are allowed to meet again, and I can’t wait to be able to have concerts in 2021!
I wish you all a very happy, prosperous, healthy and rewarding new year!❤️😊
Best,
Trine 😊
