Starting on Friday 13 and continuing on 14 November, the event is spearheaded by Icelandair and the team who usually produce the annual Iceland Airwaves event, which had been a firm fixture in Reykjavik for 20 years until the pandemic struck.
Billed as “the first major livestream music event from the top of the world”, the event aims to stream performances from the best Icelandic talent for a one-off online event including Olafur Arnalds, a multi-instrumentalist whose current release and fifth album Some Kind of Peace is BBC 6 Music’s album of the day.
