http://www.oblad.no/ski/disse-stjernene-kommer-til-stotteaksjonen-for-afrikas-horn-1.6461437

http://www.rodekors.no/nyheter/Nyheter/stottekonsert-for-afrikas-horn/

I am sorry for the lack of updates, but there is nothing happening in Maria land, unfortunately.

I recently received a mail from a fan in New Zealand, asking on how to get Maria’s autograph if you are not from Norway.

I am not in any way able to get Maria’s autograph for anyone, since I live in Denmark and not Norway. I hope to find contact info for Maria’s management, so I can find out if sending a letter to them with a pre-paid envelope included could result in receiving her autograph in return.

A pre-paid envelope is an envelope with stamps on, that is already filled out with the recipients address and the correct amount of stamps according to where it is send to and from.

Below you can see some links, which also features new pictures of Maria:
tvnorge.no
seher.no
seher.no

In another article, Maria talks about coloring her hair, how it turned grey – before it turned orange, every girls nightmare:
seher.no

In the article you can see a very natural-hair looking Maria.

She performed friday december 10th at the mall in Narvik, with a brown hairdo.

Click here to see what Maria now looks like.

Looks forward to seeing her in the future with the new hair color.

Go here to take a look, there are some pictures from her time at the Melody Grand prix.

Hopefully more updates in the gallery will come within the next piece of time.

Maria will be there on a cruise called “EkstraCruise” which takes place on a wednesday, she will be on board on December 15th.

Stena Saga sails between Oslo and Frederikshavn (Denmark). Ekstra Cruise is part of their 24/36 hours cruise.

A few domain names are being reviewed, the only similarity they have is that they are short.

If you have any suggestions, I would be more than happy to receive your suggestions.

Regarding Maria:
Maria is currently still in the studio, preparing a new studio album. There has not been talked about a possible release date or in any way about whether it will be released outside Norway this time. Only time can tell.

I totally forgot Maria’s birthday, very shamefull of me.

There did happen something big, Maria’s participation in the final of the norwegian Melodi Grandprix. She did not make it into the final rounds, but did an amazing job, and there are loads of pictures of videos of Maria online.

I have been busy at my new job at Lego since May, and have also moved to a new appartment, and that has taken a lot of time. I barely use my desktop computer anymore, so I hardly ever have access to the html-editor I use and Photoshop.

I hope to be able to spend more time on the website in the future. I apologize for the lack of updates. But here are a few things:

Contributed by Marte: http://konsert.smp.no/default.aspx?menu=1000 – scroll down to see footage from Maria performing

• Karmsund Avis
• Anja’s blog (pictures from the day)

Maria loks absolutely amazing

Credits to Marte for finding the links

Here are a bunch of links to articles regarding the Melodi Grand Prix:
fvn.no
YouTube
YouTube (MGP performance)
SeHer
SeHer
SeHer
SeHer

Hope you enjoy the links (especially the performance on YouTube)

If you are not, you can join here.

Unibet has her as nr. 2 on their list with odds, only A1 ranges above her.

Just to clarify, I am not affiliated with Unibet and will not gain from it if you make a bet on Maria – and lose.

Go here

According to an article at vg.no, Maria’s new manager is Barry Matheson, who the last 3 years has been in charge of Sissel Kyrkjebø’s career.

Source

It has now been confirmed that she will. She will be singing a song called “The Touch”, written by Rolf Løvland.

There are quite a few links online, with new pictures of Maria. Enjoy:

http://www.nrk.no/programmer/tv/melodi_grand_prix/1.6871168

http://www.nrk.no/programmer/tv/melodi_grand_prix/1.6904831

http://www.nrk.no/programmer/tv/melodi_grand_prix/1.6905369?index=1

http://www.an.no/kultur/article4754211.ece

http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nordland/1.6904784

Links was found by Marte, thank you girl

You can read more here.: http://dt.no/article/20091209/NYKULTUR/712099866/-1/RSS_NYHET
According to the article there will be another two concerts tonight – in Drammen.

Maria Arredondo – On My Own (From Les Miserables) (Beat For Beat)

Maria Arredondo – For Vår Jord (Beat For Beat)

Maria Arredondo – Up Where We Belong (Duet With Jan Johansen)

Or see the whole program, here.

Links found by Iselin at www.maria-arredondo.no – thank you girl

Enjoy

It cost me just over 8 EUR, but it is kind of cheap compared to 1 year of a .dk domain

Maria wants a movie role (with video)

• http://www.tv2underholdning.no/gkn/naa-oensker-maria-arredondo-seg-filmrolle-2848423.html

Maria injured during performance at “Allsang” festen (with video)

• http://www.tv2underholdning.no/gkn/skadet-under-allsang-paa-grensen-2845822.html

Other news:

- Maria is appearing on “Beat for beat” on November 10  source: Marte

- Maria is appearing on a single with Jan Johansen, video from promo tour, can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o29bfNFACEw

- The user sylhanns has a lot of videos with Maria on Youtube. It is worth a click

- Maria will on September 13 appear in a concert, called Romerike Live Aid.

She has worked with Trond Fjellmann for over 10 years, but that co-operation ended shortly after “Sound of Music” stopped.

At the moment she is present with a new single with a fellow norwegian artist. It will be released on his album, later this year.

Maria is looking for a new manager and people to make her next solo-album with. She believes it will be released sometime next year

Maria was present; you can read more about the event here:

Also, Maria is quoted in the article for saying that she will be heading back to the studio to record new songs this summer.

Maria has followed with him over to the new company.

Their website is this: http://www.6sansmanagement.no

There barely has been any news about Maria, since January, where the whole “Sound of Music” thing, went berserk…

Only news I can tell, is that the webhotel has been paid for, for 1 more year. I still need to figure out, about the status of the webdomain, but I sure hope Susan takes care of that

It is with great pleasure that we, together with the entire Sound of Music ensemble and crew with Maria Arredondo, can tell that Sound of Music plays on in January and February as planned. With great enthusiasm from all parts, we have come up with a solution that makes it possible.

There has in the last week, been worked intense to find a solution, so we could go through with the plays in January and February, and the last important agreements were finalized friday 9/1.

We are especially pleased that we on this way can please the 4.000 audiences that already have bought tickets for this period, and are now opening sales for the remaining tickets. With only 16 plays towards February 15th, you have to be quick if you want to see this play.

The tickets are available for purchase on www.billettluka.no on phone 815 11 500 or Edderkoppen Teater. There are a few changes regarding dates and time, more info can be found at www.edderkoppen.no

The next play with be on January 15th.

The musical is at the moment, cancelled until further notice.

Sources:
fvn.no
nrk.no
tv2.no

I have changed the coding, so the subpages also work the new layout (friends came in through the door right after I had uploaded it)

New images added to the gallery:

But there are loads more pictures added than you see here, so check out the gallery.

Sources:
Sognavis.no
VG.no
P4.no
http://www.seher.no/php/art.php?id=795981
http://www.tv2underholdning.no/gkn/article2432694.ece