GRONA LUND
Sweden
Parks and Resorts Scandinavia
 Park News - (2/15/2025) The summer concert line-up at Grona Lund has only gotten bigger with the booking of several more acts. The season will now begin with a performance by Peg Parnevik on May 17th, and the addition of Smashing Pumpkins and Cuz in August. The updated concert schedule as we currently know it is below:
May 17 - Peg Parnevik
May 22 - Natasha Bedingfield
May 23 - Marcus & Martinus
June 5 - Madness
June 6 - Soppgirobygget
June 7 - Electric Banana Band
June 9 - Sepultura
June 15 - Alanis Morissette
July 1 - Shaboozey
July 3 - Anastacia
Aug 20 - Smashing Pumpkins
Aug 21 - Cuz
Aug 22 - Manic Street Preachers
Aug 28 - Miriam Bryant
(2/9/2025) Grona Lund is all about the concerts this season it seems, as the park has announced an extensive list of concert performers booked to appear throughout the 2025 season. This includes their latest signing, the Manic Street Preachers who are coming on August 22.
(1/10/2025) According to Grona Lund, one of Sweden’s “greatest cultural acts” will be coming to perform at the park on June 7th, 2025… the “Electric Banana Band”.
“Electric Banana Band is permeated with humor and themes that have managed, while maintaining their twist, to touch on everything from environmental issues, friendship and, not least, caring for our animals. Electric Banana Band will perform a unique summer concert at Gröna Lund this summer where the whole family can go bananas with jungle hits in the band's energetic concert/art installation. Their message, carved out in the form of Electric Banana Band's subtle lyrics about protecting nature and being kind to each other, has made them beloved by generation after generation, demonstrating Electric Banana Band's unique cultural legacy.”
Being American, I’ve never heard of the Electric Banana Band, but through the magic of YouTube, I did find a clip of one of their performances.
(6/14/2024) According to a news release regarding last year’s deadly roller coaster accident on Grona Lund’s Jetline roller coaster, Sweden’s accident investigators are now saying that the amusement park “didn’t properly test new parts for a roller coaster that derailed last year”. The accident “was caused by deficiencies in the ordering, manufacturing and testing of new support arms for the Jetline trains”. The derailment caused one woman to perish after being thrown from the train and serious injuries to several others.
According to Grone Lund’s CEO, Jan Eriksson, “out of respect for the accident and everyone involved, we have decided to close Jetline for good.”
You can enjoy a last look at the Jetline experience in the video clip below, which was interwoven throughout many of the park's other attractions and buildings in the area to create a really unique ride experience over the years.
2025 - Pumpen - (11/9/2024) Grona Lund will open a new RES Rides “Super Swing” ride in April 2025 that they are calling “Pumpen”. This will be the second ride of its kind in the world (and the first) in Northern Europe.
Near Future - Park Expansion Plans - (3/9/2024) Grona Lund has submitted their first planning applications for the park’s first new expansion area, which will be inspired by the 1897 Stockholm World’s Fair. This is the first plan for the land-locked park to expand into an empty parking lot site next door, which appropriately enough was actually used as part of the site for that very same 1897 World’s Fair. “Our vision is for the area to become an oasis of experiences, entertainment, food, and wondrous theming”.
(7/2/22) Good news for Grona Lund, as the park is said to have been granted approval for their expansion plans. This will allow the park to grow, take over a former parking lot site, to provide a much needed expansion site for the land-locked popular theme park. The proposed expansion plan has actually been involved in a court-case for the past six years, with the Land and Environmental Appeal Court finally voting in favor of the park’s expansion this week.
(5/25/21) Grona Lund has created a new site and video showing off future plans the park has to transform a former parking lot into a major expansion for the land-locked waterfront theme park by 2024.
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