This is the first weekly link in 3 weeks! Apologies, my friends.
Though well known in commercial streams, Sigur Ros is a group of musicians who in 2006 (after touring the globe for a few years) went on a tour of their native Iceland that reached out largely to smaller communities, and rural areas.
The tour brought them to perform outdoors, in small function halls, abandoned warehouses, and condemned valleys, as well as your typical venues for a band of this scope.
During the tour, they were augmented regularly by a string quartet. They also collaborated with various local musicians (from wherever they were playing) that included a brass band, a choir, and a traditional Icelandic folk vocalist. Their keyboard player says at one point "We are giving back to Iceland...but they can also back us up."
The tour was beautifully documented, and all of the venues are spoken of in depth. This documentary, and all other aspects of the groups work on this tour is amazing to me. It's something I will look up to for a long time to come!
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