Romerike Leaf – On the stage for "Heroes"

"Clearly, it's high time to get to know the professionals, even if there is a chance to bomb," smiles Morgan Lindholm (18).

With the rest of his classmates on vg3 music at Jessheim High School, he spent the hours of class and free time in recent weeks to defend the interests of the professionals on stage.

– I have certainly practiced more now than for school tests, continues the guitarist.

True heroes

On Sunday, the scene takes place in Kong Rakne at the Ullensaker House of Culture, where many artists make free collection of the "Heroes" collection, a project that supports Palestinian and Syrian children and young refugees in Lebanon. Amund Maarud, Trine Rein, Sol Heilo, Unni Wilhelmsen, "Bettan" and Maria Mittet Haukaas, as well as two local bands, Lo-Fi Voodoo Fii and The Husbands.

"But it's the children and young people who live in an unbreakable daily life who are the real heroes," says initiator Tore Kvaerner, with the aim of raising between 350,000 and 400,000 crowns during the concert , a sum that goes unnoticed for "Heroes".

"The starting point of the concert is a cooperation agreement with the artist Sol Heilo Here is a concert where the profit must go for a good goal." The choice then fell on the project to help the musicians Vegar Storsve and Petter Barg, continues Kværner.

pleasure of music

For 15 years, the two local musicians have been conducting a musical project through the Forum for Culture and International Cooperation organization.

– We created a music school in the Rashidieh refugee camp in Lebanon. Here, children and young people learn the instruments, but also singing, dancing and theater. Making music is a mental health and this fellowship is an oasis in an otherwise desperate everyday life. said Petter Barg.

Over the 15 years of the project's existence, more than 500 children and adolescents have improved their quality of life. Some of them also came to Norway and Jessheim as part of an exchange project launched by Barg and Storsvee at their respective jobs, the Jessheim High School and the Norwegian School of Education. music.

Musikkelev Yasmin Bnamlek and his family have welcomed a host family several times.

The benefits of the concert will ensure an additional year of operation of the project and approx. 80 refugee children can continue their weekly musical education.