Greetings from Sweden: Alexandra Jardvall Checks in With 1071 The Boss to Talk About Upcoming Springsteen Celebration, Sea Hear Now, and the Gift She Gave Steve Van Zandt

Swedish singer/songwriter Alexandra Jardvall is set to perform her own “Greetings” tribute to Bruce Springsteen with “Greetings from Sweden: A Bruce Springsteen Celebration” with her own Swe Street Band September 21 at Louis De Geer-Norrköping Concert Hall.

“I’m going to play with my full band,” she teases.

The evening will be comprised of “Springsteen songs only” with the exception of one original. The set will include her own interpretations of “Land of Hope and Dreams,” “Dancing in the Dark,” and “If I Should Fall Behind.” Jardvall features her intricate takes on “My City of Ruins” and the recent, “There Goes My Miracle,” off of Springsteen’s “Western Stars,” on her website.

But before that, the songstress is making a pilmgrimage her “adopted hometown”–the Promised Land of Asbury Park–for a little research at Sea Hear Now to see the man and the E Street Band in action and to support photographer Conni Freestone, whose images are being used to promote Jardvall’s show and will have three photographs featured at the festival in the Transparent Clint Gallery pop-up tent.

“I have written a song that is an homage to Asbury Park and to the people that have treated me so good since I came here,” she exclusively tells midday host Michele Amabile of 1071-The Boss of the track, “Welcome Home to Asbury Park.”

Jardvall was first introduced to Springsteen and his music when she was just 10-years-old in 1984, and at that young age she made a bold prediction.

“I told my Dad that when I grow up, I will go to Asbury Park and I will be singing there,” she said.

She made that dream a reality last September headlining the Endo Warrior Benefit Show at Asbury Lanes alongside artists Jake Thistle and Chris Fritz presented by Spring-Nuts to raise awareness and funds for Endometriosis Research and the Endometriosis Foundation of America. The cause was close to Jardvall’s heart, who underwent a “radical hysterectemy” due to her own battle with Endometriosis.

To celebrate her recovery, she gave herself a ticket to see “Springsteen on Broadway” in 2018, and wound up performing Springsteen songs for fans outside the theatre at the rail with a guitar she bought for the occasion. She wound up joining a friendly police officer for an impromptu jam, which resulted in a viral video that caught the attention of Spring-Nuts founder Howie Chaz.

“He was so nice,” she said of the officer, Steven, who wrote her and said, “thank you for making me a celbrity among the NYPD.”

Her recent travels to the USA included taking in an E Street Band show in Washington, D.C, receiving a custom made Springsteen-themed guitar rom Manalapan resident Steven Cherin, a backstage meet and greet with Soul Asylum, a trip to the Rocky statue, oh, and a meeting with E Street Band member Steve Van Zandt, where she gifted him with on of her guitar picks.

“I was scared, I was shaking,” she said of the encounter. “I gave him my guitar pick. I have my own guitar pick with my face on it, and it says ‘1+1=3’ and my name, and I said ‘I think you need a guitar pick.”

“I have never done that before,” she said. ‘When I set my foot here in Asbury the first time last year in September, I was like, ok, I’m home. And it still feels like that.”