When the Fishermen Sing: Songs and Stories from Life on the Stormy West Coast

A unique three-part arrangement exploring life on the West Coast through music, storytelling, and research. Music meets narrative meets scientific insight.

The Ghost Coast Choir, led by Gustav Rasmussen and Thorben Seierø, performs newly created choral works written during fieldwork in the small West Jutland coastal town of Thorsminde. The compositions emerge from dialogues with local residents and unfold themes of work, dependency, loss, and adaptation to the constant influence of the sea.

Author Johanne Pontoppidan Tuxen presents her work Eaten by the Sea – The Storm Tide of 1825 as a landscape narrative about catastrophe and change. She unfolds the story of the 1825 storm tide that broke through the West Coast, altered the landscape, drove people to flee, and created the Limfjord as we know it today.

Tuxen interviews anthropologist Kristoffer Langkjær Albris from the University of Copenhagen, who researches adaptation to catastrophes and climate change, particularly focusing on coastal protection, storm tides, and sea level rise in Denmark.

A performance about Denmark as a country surrounded by sea – a sea that has both given work and life but also taken people and villages.