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of the Opera House is Café
Opera, Stockholm’s longest-
established nightclub, with an
international style. The crowd
is usually quite mixed – young,
trendy types and older,
smartly dressed folks.
Sturecompagniet is a large
club on several floors. At street
level there is also a rock bar.
Swedish celebrities and visiting
foreign stars mingle at top
celeb hangout Spy Bar, but it
can be difficult to get in on
certain nights. Other well-
known nightclubs include
Crown in Malmö and
Concert in the ruins of Bohus Castle in Kungälv Gutekällaren in Visby.
A relative newcomer to
Jazz Clubs
include Sticky Fingers and the entertainment scene is
Jazz has enjoyed a renaissance Jameson’s pub, and Helsingborg the state-run casino chain
in recent years and the range on has its own English pub, Charles Casino Cosmopol, which to
offer increases annually. One Dickens, where the clientele date has opened branches in
venue of repute is Fasching in can enjoy karaoke, live music, Stockholm, Gothenburg,
Stockholm, with performances singers, bands and various other Malmö and Sundsvall.
almost daily. Another jazz haunt forms of entertainment. A combination of good
in the capital is Stampen, which There are a number of food and top-flight enter-
attracts a rather more mature traditional English and Irish-style tainment is on offer at
audience. Gothenburg has pubs spread across the country, Hamburger Börs in Stockholm,
Nefertiti and across the country usually offering a wide range of with its shows featuring the
there are jazz clubs holding beer and spirits and serving a best Swedish artists. Wallmans
concerts once a month or so. selection of bar snacks. Salonger, which can be
Jazz cruises have become found in Stockholm and
popular in the summer. The Nightclubs, Casinos Helsingborg (summer) and
Stockholm archipelago is plied Sälen and Åre (winter), offers
by S/S Blidösund. Cruises are also and Shows musical enter tainment with
organized elsewhere in the Generally speaking, nightclubs dinner served by waiters and
country, for instance across Lake hold traditional disco nights on waitresses who are, in fact,
Vättern and the Åland Sea, on Friday and Saturday. During the professional performers.
the Dalälven river and out into rest of the week the venue is In Gothenburg, Rondo is a
the Gothenburg archipelago. usually hired by various clubs classic show venue.
focusing on different styles of
music. Almost all the larger
Music Pubs Festivals
towns and cities have one or
Swedish pub culture has two nightclubs, but the quality Countless festivals large and
changed enormously and it is varies, as does the music on small are organized all across
becoming increasingly common offer. In Stockholm, the Sweden in the summer. Almost
to follow the Continental pattern majority and the best of the every town has its own festival,
of slipping into a bar or pub for a capital’s nightclubs are located some with a specific focus, such
while after work, having a beer around Stureplan. At the rear as folk, jazz or rock.
and listening to music. Among the most
Many pubs have introduced renowned of the
live music – some have folk local festivals are
singers performing on a regular Göteborgs kulturkalas
basis, while others have a DJ. in Gothen burg, Stors-
The best way of being sure to jöyran in Östersund
hear live music is to scan the and Gatufesten
local press entertainment in Sundsvall.
(nöjen) pages. There are numer-
In Stockholm, the Irish pub ous music festivals,
The Dubliner offers live Irish often attracting
music. The popular Engelen bar huge audiences.
has live music several days a A traditional folk music festival in Tällberg on Some famous music
week. Gothenburg’s finest pubs Lake Siljan in Dalarna festivals include the

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