Being miles away from home and constantly on tour sounds a bit overwhelming and tiresome at first. But for Teitur Lassen, that life is something he’s been familiar with for quite a few years.

Since the release of his 2003 debut, “Poetry & Aeroplanes,” the Scandinavian singer-songwriter has been all over, entertaining audiences everywhere from the United States to Denmark. Lassen, however, doesn’t get too lonely or bored on the road since his band is right there with him.

“I have a band now, so it’s more fun to travel and play,” Lassen says. “I write songs and we play a lot of poker on the bus; [we] play chess and read. We’re very competitive.”

Another aspect that keeps Lassen from loneliness and homesickness is his close ties to his native home in the Faroe Islands, a small group of islands located halfway between Iceland and Norway.

“My bass player and my tour manager are also from the Faroes, so that kind of keeps me home in some sense,” Lassen says.

The Faroe Islands are not the only place Lassen calls home. Packing up and leaving the islands at 17, Lassen left for Denmark, where he could fully indulge in his passion for music. Lassen says the move from the Faroe Islands to Denmark is nothing out of the ordinary for many of the islands’ youth.

“A lot of young people [move to Denmark] from the Faroe Islands,” he says. “It’s basically half-and-half. Half of them leave and half of them stay. Most people come back, actually, after they’ve studied and get married to other people from the Faroe Islands.”

In the past year-and-a-half, Lassen has grown accustomed to life in the United States.

“I think I’ve come to know [the United States] quite well,” Lassen says. “I’ve seen more of the states then I think most Americans have. I’ve been everywhere.”

The only surprise upon arriving in the United States was realizing that it was everything he expected it to be, he says.

“I think the shock when you come over is how exactly alike it is to your expectations,” he says. “You come to a place, and you think that it’s going to be different, but the states were very much like I thought they were.”

As far as the American people go, Lassen says he believes Americans are accustomed to constantly socializing and being amused, compared to Europeans.

“I think that in sense of what I’m doing in my music, Americans definitely are more used to being entertained or listening to music and going out and having fun,” Lassen says. “There’s always a fun element of most things. If you’re going out to eat, you’re also making jokes and laughing. When you talk about food, it’s always with a sense of fun in it.

“The Europeans [say], ‘Oh this is very tasty, I wonder how they did this?'”

Lassen appeared in Ames twice last year, once opening for John Mayer in the fall. With all the momentum he has been building, he prefers word-of-mouth to traditional marketing.

“Word of mouth has been spreading,” Lassen says. “I think for me personally, that’s the best way. It’s what I can best relate to, and that’s how I think it should be with music — it should be infectious.”

Who: Teitur

Where: M-Shop

When: 9 p.m. Saturday

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