Benita Haastrup

Danish Jazz drummer, percussionist, improvisor, composer & community musician. Benita has won many awards for her lively and colourful drumming - among awards The Danish Ben Webster Price. Her resent album release Tárogató with her band Music for Bees is a wild, lush, buzzing and bubbling pot of jazz. The group Music for Bees is a new ensemble, that through music, encourages reflection on humanity´s impact on nature. Lets re-pollinate the world with sounds and rhythms!!! Her album Going North was nominated two Danish Music Awards for best album of the year and best compositions. The album trilogi Going North, Mørkefjell, Hvælv takes the listener on a journey through nordic landscapes and moods. Benita Haastrup: There was always a lot of music in my childhood home. My father is a jazz musician and my mother loves jazz – and the free expression of jazz and the colors and moods that jazz draws on have also become my way of expressing myself. Music is my way of communication – playing with and listening to fellow musicians and audiences – a stream of music being created and exchanged between people that transforms into moods and feelings. I believe that music can heal us and penetrate into areas not accessible by words and concepts.