Svavar Knútur (ISL) • Jólatúr/ Christmas Tour 2026

Creepy trolls & hungry giant cats – Icelandic Christmas songs and stories with Svavar Knútur. The evening blends Icelandic songs, winter myths, and dry humor into a concert that blends folk music, storytelling, and Nordic holiday traditions. When Svavar Knútur comes to Waiblingen in December, he brings not just songs, but an entire wintery world of storytelling. On Friday, December 12, 2026, the Icelandic singer-songwriter will be performing at Kulturhaus Schwanen as part of his Christmas tour. The show starts at 8 p.m., with doors opening at 7 p.m. The evening combines Icelandic Jól songs, winter stories, myths, and dry humor into a concert that blends folk, storytelling, and Nordic holiday culture. Svavar Knútur is one of those musicians who doesn’t need much to fill a room. A voice, a guitar or ukulele, plus that special blend of warmth, wit, and openness. His concerts are intimate, sometimes quiet, sometimes absurdly funny, often touching, and rarely what you expect. Anyone who has ever seen him at the Schwanen may still remember that peculiarly beautiful interplay of laughter, melancholy, and deep intimacy. For his Christmas tour, Svavar Knútur opens the door to Icelandic Jól traditions. He sings traditional and newer songs about winter, darkness, cold, and the festival of light. In between, he tells stories of the Jólasveinar, of Grýla and Leppalúði, of the grumpy Christmas cat, and other characters who roam through the Advent season in Iceland in a rather quirky, eerie, and wonderfully headstrong way. This is not a carefully polished Christmas Eve, but a program with rough edges, heart, and a subtle shiver. That is precisely where his strength lies. Svavar Knútur looks at the dark season not with pathos, but with humanity, self-irony, and an open eye for the small cracks and bright moments. His songs tell of life on the rugged Icelandic Westfjords and of everything that holds people together when it gets cold outside. The result is an evening that can be comforting without becoming sentimental, and funny without being frivolous.