Former DEEP PURPLE Keyboardist Jon Lord Goes To Hell In Trondheim; Tour Report Available
July 9, 2007, 17 years ago
The following report is courtesy of DEEP PURPLE fansite Thehighwaystar.com:
Whenever Jon Lord (ex-Deep Purple keyboardist) and Hell are mentioned in the same sentence, you know there’s good stuff coming. The Hell in question is of course the tiny village by that very name just outside Trondheim, Norway. Counting only a handful of houses, it still has its own railway station.
For many years it has also had its own music festival. Starting out as the Hell Blues Festival, organiser Knut-Morten Johansen, who happens to be a big Deep Purple fan, has since widened its scope and now it’s called the Hell Music Festival. The variety of artists is best illustrated by this year’s festival poster which featured Jon Lord alongside SNOOP DOGG.
Like four years ago, Jon Lord is again performing at Trondheim’s Nidaros cathedral, but this time the concert features his ‘From Darkness to Light - a Prayer for the Millennium’ in its first professional performance.
More of the tour report from Jon Lord’s weekend in Trondheim, Norway can be viewed here.
