Reetta-Kaisa Iles

“The music of Arctic Fire concert at the WOMEX 2019 was brave and contemporary, yet all of them drew in some way on archaic traditions in Finnish music.”

"​Though they have only been around for three years, the quartet Suistamon Sähkö have grown into quite a phenomenon."

The nature of folk music has always included the shameless borrowing of refreshing material from elsewhere – right now Baltic Finnish influences are rising to the top in Finland.