SPOT festival highlights three emerging Nordic artists to watch
Danish public broadcaster DR’s P6 Beat has selected three standout acts from this year’s SPOT festival in Aarhus, an annual showcase for up-and-coming Nordic talent. The festival, running Friday and Saturday, features 300 concerts across downtown venues, with artists given 30-minute slots to impress audiences and industry professionals.
Sylvester Zabello, host of P6 Beat’s Debut program, recommends these three performers as must-see acts.
A Good Year: A cinematic indie-rock fusion
Copenhagen duo A Good Year, comprising filmmaker Albert R. Hildebrand and musician Tobias Lausts, blend live music with visual storytelling. Their debut work, Sofina, premiered at CPH:DOX 2024, combining film and sound. The festival describes their performance as an “experimental mix of music and video,” using pitch-shifted vocals, live recordings, and acoustic guitars to evoke nostalgia. They perform Friday at 16:15 on the VoxHall stage.
Schæfer: Indie-pop with a 1970s rock edge
Aalborg-based Schæfer, the duo of vocalist Anna Skov and keyboardist Emil Mors, have already sold out shows in Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Aalborg. Their socially conscious, witty lyrics—compared by Zabello to poet C.V. Jørgensen but with a modern twist—deliver indie-pop with folk undertones and a “grand, 1970s rock” energy. Catch them Friday at 17:45 on the Parkscenen in Musikhusparken.
Vilma Crow: Raw emotional storytelling
Returning after her 2023 SPOT appearance, Vilma Crow—winner of the 2026 Danish Alternative Music Awards’ Audience Prize—offers a visceral live experience. Her songs confront failed relationships, self-blame, and alienation with unflinching honesty, blending vulnerability with ironic detachment. SPOT calls her work a “dark, emotional landscape” where anger and sorrow collide. She performs Friday at 23:15 at VoxHall.
For those unable to attend, P6 Beat will broadcast three hours of live coverage from the festival daily, Friday and Saturday, from 13:00 to 16:00.