Call it a great Danish spring. Certainly, one of the finest musical evenings of the year in Santa Barbara landed at The Granada Theatre a few weeks ago, when the eminent Danish String Quartet met the Danish National Girls Choir for a concert that included a brand-new piece by David Lang.
This weekend, Mads Tolling , the Copenhagen-born and Bay Area–based jazz violinist, appears not once, but twice in the Danish burg of Solvang. Tolling, whose sparkly résumé includes a long stint with the Grammy-graced Turtle Island String Quartet and work with the Stanley Clarke Band, has logically performed in Solvang before. This time out, he shows up for an official concert at the Elverhøj Museum , with pianist/accordionist Sam Reider, on Saturday, as well as a pop-up performance Friday at the Solvang Theatre Festival, in a VIP reception before a splashy fundraiser with Santa Barbara–based pop star P!nk.
