The festival officially started in 2004, but the idea came from a much smaller festival called \u00b4North of Nowhere\u00b4 that had taken place in a different location in Troms\u00f8 (\u00c5sg\u00e5rd) in 2002 and 2003. \u00a0North of Nowhere was a gratis, family-friendly, non-alcoholic musikk<\/strong> festival staffed only by volunteers. \u00a0In 2004 the very first Bukta Festival took place, attracting 5,000 attendees who enjoyed the musikk<\/strong> of Norwegian artister<\/strong>. \u00a0Just a year later, the line-up included utenlandske <\/strong>(international) artister<\/strong> and boasted more than double the attendance as the previous year. \u00a02006 was another successful year for the festival with 13,000 attendees and more utenlandske artister<\/strong>. \u00a0In 2007 the festival grew from 2 to 3 days and in 2008 all three days were sold out with 30,000 in the audience. \u00a0As you can see, the event is clearly a hit. \u00a0Hence, my sadness for not being there…<\/p>\n Some of the bands that are playing at Bukta Festival Troms\u00f8 2010 include: Big Bang, Hellbillies, Kr\u00e5kes\u00f8lv, Juliette Lewis, Dinosaur Jr., The Sonics, Sivert H\u00f8yem, Mew Clutch, Danko Jones, Navigators, Disciplines, Black Sheeps, Bad County, and Datarock, among others.<\/p>\n I just looked at some bilder <\/strong>(pictures) on the festival\u00b4s hjemmeside<\/strong> (homepage) bukta.no and it sure sounds like a good time. \u00a0Just to give you an idea of what it costs to go to a musikk festival<\/strong> in Norway, the dagsbillett <\/strong>is NOK 630 ($100) and the Festivalpass 3 dager<\/strong> (3 day festival pass) is NOK 1250 ($200). \u00a0So…I\u00b4m not sure why one would ever pay for 2 separate days… \u00a0 I\u00b4m actually not a huge musikk festival <\/strong>person, but I think that\u00b4s probably considerably more than what you would pay in the U.S. \u00a0But again, if you are Norwegian, it doesn\u00b4t hurt like it does when you are tourist (shelling out that much penger<\/strong> for a weekend of musikk<\/strong>). \u00a0Regardless, if I were there right now, I\u00b4d pay it. \u00a0Troms\u00f8 doesn\u00b4t often see nice warm, sunny days like today was according to the reports.<\/p>\n If you want to check out the hjemmeside<\/a><\/strong>, it\u00b4s a pretty great site and a great way to practice your norsk<\/strong> (since you kind of already know what kind of information would be on the site, right?). \u00a0Fear not, English is available.<\/p>\n If you are going to be in Norway this summer and you love musikk festivaler<\/strong>, check out this<\/a> website for a map of dozens of festivaler<\/strong> in Norway!<\/p>\n Listen to the v\u00e6rvarsel <\/strong>(weather report) article5194129.ece<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am so disappointed that I am not in Troms\u00f8 right now for the Bukta Festival, a huge 3-day long musikk festival that is close by to the nabolag (neighborhood) that I\u00b4ll be living in very soon. \u00a0If you know the area it\u00b4s in Telegrafbukta, a small bay on the southwest side of Troms\u00f8ya…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2010\/07\/girlsbukta-350x137.jpg\")