Maud Lindström Trio

17/9 2026

Maud Lindström Trio

Photographer: Mia Bobzow Hassling
Maud Lindström has a rare ability to tell stories that reach straight to the heart. With her direct voice, uncompromising honesty, and lyrics that are bold, witty, and deeply resonant, she stands out as one of the most distinctive artists on Sweden’s contemporary folk scene. Her music moves freely between traditional folk, singer-songwriter expression, and Americana. With double bass, acoustic guitars, banjo, and electric guitar, the trio creates a performance that is at once playful, unexpected, and deeply moving—capturing life as it is: fragile, rough around the edges, and full of grandeur.

She broke through in the late 2000s with the now cult-classic album Strategivisor för kärlekskritiker (“Strategy Songs for Love Critics”), a collection of candid songs about love, sexuality, power, and identity. Since then, she has performed across the Nordic countries on folk stages as well as in rock clubs and at festivals, schools, demonstrations, Pride events, and theatre venues. She has toured with Riksteatern and Lars Winnerbäck, and has also created and toured extensively with her own musical production Allmänmänskligt! (“Universally Human!”). In 2025, she was awarded the Ulf Peder Olrog Foundation Scholarship and the Swedish Folk Song Award, presented by the Swedish Song Society (Riksförbundet Visan i Sverige).

In the autumn of 2025, she released the critically acclaimed, Manifest Award-winning album Du får gå (“You May Leave”). With sharp insight and a keen sense of humour, the songs explore grief, separation, and the dramas of everyday life—from existential zoo visits and the longing to escape a grey office routine, to yeast infections and terminally ill mothers.

On stage:
Maud Lindström – vocals, guitar
Petter Eriksson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, double bass
Johan Bengtsson – double bass, banjo, tenor guitar