Angelina toured Norway giving a series of Christmas concerts in December 2017. She was joined by the musical group The Real Thing and the singer Sigrid Brennhaug. They performed 15 concerts in 19 days, in churches and entertainment venues around Norway.
The total distance traveled on this tour, assuming a roundtrip starting and ending in Oslo (with no side trips), would be approximately 2,325 km (1,445 mi) in just under 34 hours by road, or approximately 1,530 km (950 mi) as the crow flies (straight line between cities).[3] Note that some of the longer distances between locations may have been flown instead of driven.
Interestingly, a 2017-10-13 article published by a Lillestrøm newspaper described the tour as consisting of 15 concerts ("15 konserter lange juleturneen") over 3 weeks ("i den tre uker lange turneen"), but gives the same first and last concerts (14 days apart) listed above ("starter i Stavanger Konserthus 8. desember og med avslutning 22. desember i Moss kirke"),[4] while a 2017-11-17 article published by a newspaper in Drammen, Norway, lists the following additional 5 concerts, which would bring the total to 15 and extend the tour to 3 weeks.[5] There is footage available from all of these concerts.
2017-12-04
Interior of Haug Church, Hokksund. Photo: Oddbjørn Sørmoen, from Kulturminnebilder.no
Interior of Nedre Eiker Church. Altarpiece painted by Christen Brun. Photo: C. Christensen Thomhav, from the Norwegian Agency for Cultural Heritage's Cultural Heritage Images
(note: it is not known which 2017-12-06 concert was first)
2017-12-07
Interior of Strømsø Church, Drammen. Photo: Christian Christensen Thomhav, from the Norwegian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's Cultural Heritage Images.
There apparently were two concerts at the Strømsø church, as there is footage for both "All I Want for Christmas Is You" and "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause" from two different performances in this location.[6] As there were also two concerts on 2017-12-06 (in nearby locations), it's possible that there have been double concerts at other dates/locations as well.
If all of these concerts happened on the dates listed here, then that would add about 105 km and 2 hrs 35 min to the total time and distance traveled discussed above.
Songs
Though no recording of an entire concert is known, there are hints that allow to reconstruct the general setlist pattern. A review article describes the Stavanger City Hall concert:[7]
She sings 3 songs, including "Crazy"… . She has also published her own book, from which she reads a small excerpt. She then hands over the stage to Sigrid Brannhaug, who goes through a few songs… .
When Angelina enters the stage again, she performs "All I want for Christmas is you"… "I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus"… . Angelina said that one of the songs that started the adventure was "Fly me to the moon" and then continued with "Can't help falling in love" by Elvis… . She finished with "Let it snow" and "The Christmas song"… . So together with Sigrid, the song "O Holy Night" was performed as an encore… .
Another video from a different location shows her performing "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" together with Sigrid. This likely has been a different start to the second part of Angelina's parts, as Sigrid was already on the stage when the video starts, and Angelina joins her.[12]
Strømsø Church, duet (here in Norwegian, in English elsewhere)
Performances
Here is a table of all videos where the location could be identified, in most cases via comparison of the footage to pictures of the venues. The date was then set according to the published concert tour plans.
↑Drive times and distances were determined by the Google Maps queries individually linked above; straight-line distances were based on information from multiple different websites returned in general Google search results.
↑Ødegaard, Tor Christian and Torun Havnaas. Den store julekonsertguiden↗ [in Norwegian] [English: The great Christmas concert guide]. DT.no. Accessed 2021-01-04.
↑Both songs are in a video shot from the back of the stage, as well as in two different videos that were shot from the front of the stage. A comparision shows, that these are indeed from two different performances each:
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