Fåberg Musikkforening m/
Ellen Andrea Wang & Hanna Paulsberg

Fåberg Musikkforening - genuine joy of playing, strong community, and proud traditions. Fåberg Musikkforening is a vibrant and inclusive band in Fåberg. Here, music enthusiasts come together to play, develop, and create great experiences – both for themselves and for the audience.

Since its founding in 1887, Fåberg Musikkforening has been an important part of the local cultural life. Today, the band combines long traditions with musical quality, skilled instructors, and a warm social environment. With us, there is room for both engagement, development, and true musical joy – and we are proud to be an association that creates unity, energy, and great musical moments.

During DølaJazz 2026, the music association will perform a concert together with Ellen Andrea Wang and Hanna Paulsberg. The concert in Lillehammer Church will be in three parts; one section with the music association, one section where they play pieces specially arranged for the band and the evening's two soloists. Finally, Ellen Andrea Wang and Hanna Paulsberg will do a small section in duo format.

Ellen Andrea Wang (from Gjøvik) is a Norwegian award-winning bassist, vocalist, and composer who moves musically between jazz, pop, and indie jazz. She is educated at the Norwegian Academy of Music with a master's in performance/improvisation, where she studied with Bjørn Kjellemyr.

She has played with musicians and artists such as Sting, Manu Katché, Marilyn Mazur, and Bugge Wesseltoft. She received the Spellemann Award for the album Run Boy, Run with the group GURLS in 2019 and has been nominated for the Spellemann Award with her solo album Blank Out Jazzland Recordings 2017. Wang was Artist In Residence at Moldejazz in 2021. Ellen Andrea has played at DølaJazz several times before, in various constellations, and she received the festival's talent award in 2011.

Hanna Paulsberg is a Norwegian saxophonist and composer from Rygge. Paulsberg has played with musicians such as Chick Corea, Bobo Stenson, Bugge Wesseltoft, Karin Krog, Marilyn Mazur, Jan Eggum. She has toured much of the world with her saxophone. Paulsberg has attended the Jazz program at NTNU in Trondheim, where she studied with, among others, John Pål Inderberg and Eirik Hegdal. In 2019, she completed a master's in jazz performance at the Norwegian Academy of Music.

She plays in her own Hanna Paulsberg Concept, in addition to CURLS and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, to name a few.

Look forward to a magnificent musical evening in Lillehammer Church!

Thanks to Innlandet County Municipality for supporting the project.