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Elb Jazz Festival

Wednesday, 01 May 2013
Happy to annouce that Mikkel Ploug Group plays the Elb Jazz Festival on 25th of May in Hamburg
 

Slovenia three guitars

Wednesday, 01 May 2013
I am very excited to travel to Slovenia between 20th and 24th of May to perform Samo Salomons music written for three guitars Manu Codja, Samo and myself.
 

Equilibrium tour and new album in the making

Wednesday, 01 May 2013
Equilibrium w Sissel Vera Pettersen and Joachim Badenhorst are on tour with stops in Risør Jazzklub Norway, Abbey De Neumuenster Luxembourg, Bird's Eye Basel. We will be in the studio working on our new album in May, the album will be out on Songlines Recordings in April 2014.
 

Touring

Wednesday, 01 May 2013
Thanks to everyone who came out to see us on the trio tour of Ireland.
 

Mikkel Ploug New Group eurotour

Monday, 25 February 2013
We are on tour for two weeks in Spain, Denmark and Germany with Loren Stillman on tenor, Jeppe Skovbakke bass, Tommy Crane drums.
 

Touring w/Mikkel Ploug Group and Trio

Monday, 26 November 2012
We will be on tour in december and are looking forward to three nights at the Hot Club in Lisboa Portugal on 13,14,15th.
 

Touring w/The Unusual History Of Ether

Thursday, 27 September 2012
The Unusual History Of Ether will tour Ireland, Denmark and UK in October/November. We just recorded our next album which will be release early next year.
 

Trio tour in Spain

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Mikkel Ploug Trio with Jeppe Skovbakke and Sean Carpio will be performing in Bogui in Madrid and Clasijazz in Almeria on 18 and 19th of may.
 

Pete Robbins Transatlantic Album/Tour

Monday, 05 March 2012

The Pete Robbins Transatlantic Quartet will be touring Europe in March/April. The album Live in Basel is out and have receive a bunch of great reviews. This is Pete's EPK for the record

 

2012

Thursday, 12 January 2012
Its 2012 and I wlll be on tour with Simon Jermyn Quartet (FEB), Pete Robbins Transatlantic(MAR/APR), Equilibrium (APR) and Mikkel Ploug Trio in May.
 

Wowos on tour in Ireland

Monday, 10 October 2011
Sean Carpio's Wowos will tour Ireland between 23rd and 31st of October, lineup is Ed Rosenberg and Joachim Badenhorst saxes. Mikkel Ploug and Simon Jermyn on guitars, Jeppe Skovbakke drums and Sean Carpio drums and compositions.
 

T.u.h.o.e, Basel and more

Friday, 09 September 2011

The Unusual History Of Ether will perform at the Geyser Festival in Copenhagen on 15th of September. I will be in Basel the following week teaching at the Jazzschool. Lots of new dates for the fall in Ireland, Italy, Denmark, Spain and more in the calender.

 

Mikkel Ploug Group and Equilibrium CPH Jazzfestival

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Mikkel Ploug Group plays Vor Frue Plads on the 5th of July at 17:30 with Sean Carpio drums, Jeppe Skovbakke bass, Loren Stillman alto and Ned Ferm tenor. The group also plays on the 4th of July at Kind Of Blue at Nørrebro. Equilibrium will play at Statens Museum For Kunst at 15 hrs on July 10th. 

 

Walking Voices

Friday, 15 April 2011

The new Equilibrium album Walking Voices is out this week on Songlines Recordings here is two great reviews from Norway this week:

5 stars...Side2and Dagsavisen

 

Tour with Simon Jermyn NYC Quartet

Saturday, 29 January 2011
Simon Jermyn 6-electric bass, Robin Fincker tenorsax, Tommy Crane drums and MP guitar will be touring in Februar playing new songs by Simon and I. Hope to see you out there!
 

Jazzlab Fall tour with Equilibrium

Saturday, 09 October 2010
In October and November Equilibrium w Sissel Vera Pettersen, Joachim Badenhorst and Mikkel Ploug will be on tour organised by the belgium Jazzlabseries most concerts are in "flandern" but we take a detour to Denmark too. We just recorded a new album for Songlines to be released in March 2011.
 

Great review of Fernweh in Politiken (DK)

Wednesday, 01 September 2010

Jazzalbum klinger som en solfyldt eftermiddag Politiken

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New Trio Album

Wednesday, 30 June 2010

New trio record by Mikkel Ploug Trio "Fernweh" is out now on Fresh Sound Records ! to purchase click here:Fresh Sound

 

Interview for Jazzpodium

Monday, 31 May 2010
Jazzpodium interview by Alex Schmitz part1 part2 (german only)
 

On tour with MP trio + Loren Stillman

Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Loren Stillman, Kevin Brow, Jeppe Skovbakke and myself will tour Spain, Denmark, Germany and the Czech Republic in April and May. Hope to see you out there! Check our Tour for dates and venues.
 

On tour with Pete Robbins

Sunday, 21 March 2010
The Pete Robbins Transatlantics will be on tour this week. After a few shows in Denmark we head to Ireland. See  the tourschedule for dates and venues.
 

Epoch Times top 10 Equilibrium

Saturday, 02 January 2010
Epoch times has Equlibrium on as one of 2009 best records! We say thank you!
 

Equilibrium no 10 on WEFT chart

Monday, 28 December 2009
Equilibrium is placed as no. 10 on the WEFT chart
 

Equilibriium in 10 best albums of 2009

Monday, 28 December 2009

The danish Jazznyt blog has Equilibrium as on of the 10 best albums released in 2009

 

Sean Carpio project in Ireland

Monday, 07 December 2009

Sean Carpio has been commissioned to write a repertoire music for a unique constellation of musicians from New York, Ireland and Copenhagen. I am very excited to be part of this project that also features Jonathan Rossman alto, Bill McHenry tenor sax, Simon Jermyn guitar, Sean Carpio drums and myself on guitar. The music will be premiered on the 12th of December at The Project Arts in Dublin.

 

Trio studio recording

Sunday, 29 November 2009
Jeppe Skovbakke, Kevin Brow and I have just finished recording a bunch of new songs that will make up our first trio album recorded at the old Danish Radio studios. The album will be released in spring 2010.
 

Equilibrium review in AAJ New York

Thursday, 12 November 2009
Equilibrium review in AAJ New York paper edition
 

October Tour

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Mikkel Ploug Group will be all over europe again this October. We have lots of new songs and look out for our soon to come live album, available as a download from this website only. Hope to see you out there, here is a sample from the live record
 

Franklinstraat

Monday, 05 October 2009
My album debut on drums with Franklinstraat have received 3 very nice reviews from Politiken, Geiger and Jazznyt
 

Equilibrium Live

Saturday, 05 September 2009
I will perform with Sissel Vera Pettersen and Joachim Badenhorst at Husets Teater on the 11th of September. It will be our last concert in 2009. It's has been a fantastic time for us with many concerts and great reviews, we look forward to continue our work with this trio in 2010. 
 

Great live review

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
All about jazz reviews Mikkel Ploug Group with Joachim Badenhorst, Kevin Brow, Jeppe Skovbakke live at the Copenhagen Jazzfestival.
 

All About Jazz Review Harmoniehof

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
Mark F Turner reviews Harmoniehof
 

New Note All Stars

Wednesday, 05 August 2009
Tomorrow I'm playing with the New Note All Stars. A Special group consisting of Jesper Løvdal, Janus Templeton, Peter Rosendal and danish bass legend Hugo Rasmussen. The band it put together for the 5 year celebration of Buddhas Jazzclub in Hillerød. Happy birthday!
 

Harmoniehof out of stock

Friday, 26 June 2009
Harmoniehof is temporarely out of stock from Fresh Sound Records. Thanks for bying CDs!
 

More great reviews for Equilibrium

Monday, 01 June 2009
Great review of Equilibrium from J.B Spins NY
 

AAJ reviews Equilibrium

Friday, 22 May 2009
Another great review from AAJ of Equilibrium
 

Great review of Equilibrium

Sunday, 17 May 2009
Luna Kafe review Equilibrium
 

The Province on Equilibrium

Sunday, 10 May 2009
Canadian newspaper The Province review Equilibrium
 

Politiken review

Sunday, 10 May 2009
Five hearts in Politiken for Equilibrium
 

Belgien Review

Thursday, 23 April 2009
Great Belgian review of Equilibrium
 

Jazzcom 94 of 100

Saturday, 18 April 2009
94 of 100 for track Cathedral on Jazz.com  
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Review from Dagbladet

Saturday, 18 April 2009
Dagbladet (NO) reviews Equilibrium
 

AAJ Equilibrium

Sunday, 12 April 2009
All About Jazz review Equilibrium
 

New York Public Radio

Saturday, 11 April 2009
PPB trio on New York Public Radio's New Sounds listen
 

Review from Norway

Sunday, 05 April 2009
Dagsavisen (NO) and Jazznyt (DK) reviews Equilibrium
 

Popmatters review Equilibrium

Friday, 20 March 2009
Read review of Equilibrium posted by the US based Popmatters who claims 100 million unique readers a month. The article is about Songlines and their latest four releases by PlougPettersenBadenhorst, Brad Shepik, Brad Turner and Tony Malaby.
 

Review on RVAJazz of Equilibrium

Friday, 13 March 2009
Very nice words about Equilibrium on RVAJazz
 

Interviewed by Songlines

Tuesday, 10 March 2009

An interview with Mikkel Ploug, Sissel Vera Pettersen, Joachim Badenhorst is up on the Songlines website

 

2009

Wednesday, 07 January 2009

In April "Equilibrium" will be released by Songlines Recordings and Mikkel will tour with Sissel Vera Pettersen and Joachim Badenhorst through europe.

In October Mikkel Ploug Group with Mark Turner will tour europe again. Both tour schedules will be updated soon.

 

Citizenjazz review of Harmoniehof

Friday, 21 November 2008
The French jazzmagazine Citizenjazz reviews Harmoniehof www.citizenjazz.com/article3461570.html
 

Tour with Pete Robbins

Sunday, 26 October 2008
Mikkel will be touring in January with NY alto player Pete Robbins, tour scheduled will be updated soon.
 

Songlines

Sunday, 26 October 2008
A new collaborative trio consisting of Mikkel Ploug guitar, Sissel Vera Pettersen voice/sax (no) and Joachim Badenhorst (be) clarinet, will release their debut album on Songlines in the spring 2009. www.songlines.com The album is mixed by Jan Erik Kongshaug at Rainbow studios in Oslo and will be released in surround. The group will tour in April and September.
 

Video October Tour

Monday, 20 October 2008
A live video version of Enthusiasts from Dublin http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=iUZjVpGnju8
 

European Tour October

Tuesday, 23 September 2008
European Tour - Mikkel Ploug Group feat. Mark Turner, Sean Carpio and Jeppe Skovbakke will be touring Sweden, Denmark, Ireland and Spain from October 6th to 18th.
 

Article from Politiken about Mikkel

Thursday, 10 July 2008
A story on Mikkel from the national news paper Politiken
 

Summer Jazz Workshop Prague

Monday, 30 June 2008
Mikkel will be teaching at the Summer Jazz workshop in Prague Juli 21-29.
 

Harmoniehof Review

Friday, 27 June 2008
Harmoniehof was reviewed by Jazznyt
 

CPH Jazzfestival

Thursday, 19 June 2008
Mikkel will be performing 10 times with different groups at the Copenhagen and Aarhus Jazzfestival (4-13 Juli). Mikkel Ploug, Sissel Vera Pettersen, Joachim Badenhorst trio plays on the 12th of Juli.
 

New website & Online Lessons

Monday, 16 June 2008
The new mikkelploug.com is ready! Thanks for the teaching requests, I'm now awailable for online lessons via skype and a webcam.
 

Tour of Europe

Friday, 16 May 2008
Mikkel Ploug Group feat. Mark Turner will be touring for 3 weeks in europe playing Spain, Holland, Germany, France, Denmark, Belgium in may in connection with the release of Harmoniehof.
 

New CD "Harmoniehof" is out on Fresh Sound

Thursday, 15 May 2008
Harmoniehof is just released by Fresh Sound Records and features Mark Turner - sax, Mikkel Ploug - guitar, Jeppe Skovbakke - bass, Sean Carpio drums. To listen, click discography or launch the player.
 
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