From Thursday 17 September through Sunday 20 September, Copenhagen’s concert calendar runs from concert-hall programmes to late club bills. One of the week’s most coherent routes is condensed into two nights at Mojo Blues Bar: Thomas Crawfurd’s Oceans Apart release concert at 19:00 on Thursday, the Blues Jam at 21:30, and Fried Okra at 21:00 on Friday. Crawfurd is the connective figure—moving from his own songs to a shared stage, then back into a band whose sound has long placed him behind the drums.[1][2][3][4]

The sequence suits Mojo Blues Bar’s particular place in the city. The venue presents live blues and adjacent forms throughout the week, and its Løngangsstræde address remains a central, compact base for music that can shift between roots, soul, rock and blues. This is a guide to the opening pair of nights, with Thursday 17 September offering a rare view of the same musician in two sharply different roles.[1][5]

A songwriter takes the drum chair

Crawfurd’s Thursday release concert introduces Oceans Apart, his first solo album as a singer and songwriter. Mojo Blues Bar describes the record as a meeting point for americana, folk, singer-songwriter music and roots rock, with songs shaped around distance between people and the ties that remain. He previously issued two instrumental albums, then began writing songs during lockdown and spent subsequent years completing and recording them.[1]

The live arrangement gives the release a specific physical logic: Crawfurd will sing while playing drums. Rune Højmark joins on guitar and backing vocals, Anders Wallin on bass and backing vocals, and Kristian Jørgensen on keyboards and backing vocals. Those names also clarify why this release feels rooted in a working local circuit. Crawfurd has played with Fried Okra and Trainman Blues, while Højmark and Jørgensen appeared in the expanded Fried Okra Deluxe line-up documented for its 2024 live album.[1][3][4]

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Thursday’s open door

At 21:30, the focus widens. Mojo Blues Bar’s Blues Jam arrives with Anders Montin, Christian Jørgensen, Rune Højmark, Laust Krudtmejer and Thomas Crawfurd listed as the host band. The venue frames the event as an open format where listeners may also join in, backed by a house band. Its Thursday jam has run continuously since September 1993, making this a living local institution with a defined history instead of a one-off aftershow.[2][6]

Friday’s Fried Okra connection

Friday’s Fried Okra show completes the thread. The Copenhagen trio’s own material draws on North Mississippi Hill Country blues, with a preference for durable riffs, groove and songs that travel through blues, roots, rock and americana. Crawfurd plays drums and percussion alongside singer-guitarist Morten Lunn and bassist Anders Wallin. Mojo Blues Bar’s current event page also points to Fried Okra Deluxe Live, a 2024 document of the band in a six-piece formation featuring Højmark and Kristian Jørgensen.[3][4]

That overlap makes Friday useful as a companion to Oceans Apart. Thursday places Crawfurd’s voice and writing at the centre; Friday returns him to the rhythmic engine of a group whose music is built around original songs and the plain force of Hill Country-derived blues. The two bills offer different scales of authorship, with the jam between them acting as the hinge.[1][2][4]

Plan the two-night route

Thomas Crawfurd’s Oceans Apart release concert begins at 19:00 on Thursday 17 September at Mojo Blues Bar, followed by the Blues Jam at 21:30. Fried Okra begins at 21:00 on Friday 18 September at the same venue. Mojo lists a 100 kr ticket for the release concert, 30 kr for the jam and 125 kr for Fried Okra; it also advises seat reservations for the release and Friday show. Recheck Mojo Blues Bar’s official pages before leaving for current prices, reservations and any schedule changes.[1][2][3]

Sources

  1. Releasekoncert for albummet 'Oceans Apart' af Thomas Crawfurd — Mojo Blues Bar
  2. Blues Jam w/ Anders Montin, Christian Jørgensen, Rune Højmark, Laust Krudtmejer & Thomas Crawfurd — Mojo Blues Bar
  3. Fried Okra — Mojo Blues Bar
  4. Fried Okra press release — Fried Okra
  5. Mojo Blues Bar — VisitCopenhagen
  6. Koncertkalender — Bluesnews.dk