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From runo roots to the UZone lair
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From runo roots to the UZone lair

From runo roots to the UZone lair

"The JuuriJuhla-RotFest (Roots Festival) takes place in Espoo each year and says it has its own roots in the pelimanni folk dance music, although most of the concerts range much wider. It featured top names on the Finnish roots music scene."

Simon Broughton

April 14, 2021

Reports of the demise of the Kalevala are exaggerated
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Reports of the demise of the Kalevala are exaggerated

Reports of the demise of the Kalevala are exaggerated

"Perhaps the most relevant legacy of the Kalevala is in its rich and varied use of language, its grand narratives and how those narratives translate to the modern era." Ethnomusicologist Lari Aaltonen discusses the Kalevala today.

Lari Aaltonen

December 17, 2020

Taavi Oramo's multiple roles
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Taavi Oramo's multiple roles

Taavi Oramo's multiple roles

Conductor, electronic musician, singer, clarinettist and producer Taavi Oramo is known as a highly diverse and open-minded musician. Though increasingly performing as a conductor, he is keen to keep up his multiple other roles too: the various aspects of music-making that he is involved in are mutually supportive.

Hanna Isolammi

April 12, 2019

The Singing Union
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The Singing Union

The Singing Union

The IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) was an international anarcho-syndicalist union movement, which was founded in 1905 in Chicago. Finns were active in the movement from the 1910s onwards and published three songbooks of their own. These songs, however, have remained largely unheard in Finland. The ensemble Laulava Unioni offers fresh interpretations of music written by the Finnish members of the IWW.

Saijaleena Rantanen

September 6, 2018

Music of the Finnish Romani: roaming and singing
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Music of the Finnish Romani: roaming and singing

Music of the Finnish Romani: roaming and singing

Music is strongly associated with the Romani people. Singing was always a part of travelling with horse-drawn wagons or sleighs, or resting by the campfire. Music still occupies a large role in the lives of many Romani today, even as traditional lifestyles are being replaced by modern ones.

Tove Djupsjöbacka

June 4, 2016

“Struggling artist like the rest of us”
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“Struggling artist like the rest of us”

“Struggling artist like the rest of us”

What relevance does Sibelius – and his big anniversary – hold for the wider Finnish music and culture scene in 2015? Andrew Mellor asked five musicians from outside the classical music tradition.

Andrew Mellor

January 4, 2015

From page to stage poetry
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From page to stage poetry

From page to stage poetry

The Finnish capital is currently home to a thriving stage poetry scene, thanks to the determined efforts of Helsinki Poetry Connection. The group arranges jam sessions where poetry and music are often combined in unexpected ways.

Mika Kauhanen

December 12, 2012

Strange, striking, and sometimes commercial
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Strange, striking, and sometimes commercial

Strange, striking, and sometimes commercial

The pop-music Finland of 2004 is no longer just “the land of a thousand sad and sorry songs”, as the classic Eppu Normaali quipped some twenty years ago. The former backwoods have become a baking oven for every conceivable subgenre of popular music, turning out appetizing fare to suit all tastes, from fancies for the cake-shop window to savoury nibbles for the basement bash.

Samuli Knuuti

January 9, 2004

Around the world
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Around the world

Around the world

Multi-instrumentalist Teho Majamäki has spent the past fifteen years collecting musical influences, tunes and sounds on his travels around the world.

Sini Mononen

January 8, 1985

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