The 35th Haapavesi Folk Music Festival will take place
June 27-29, 2024!
The programme of the 35th Haapavesi Folk Music Festival has now been published in its entirety!
The Haapavesi Folk Music Festival will be organised this summer at the usual time of the year, just after Midsummer! This time it takes place already for the 35th time from the 27th to the 29th of June 2024. This year we will have international artists from the USA, Hungary, Sweden and Denmark. Our Finnish artists represent the absolute top of the folk music and we aim to please especially younger audience with popular music choices.
From the USA, we will present world-renowned sisters Natalie and Brittany Haas, whose music combines influences from American, Celtic and Nordic traditional music. Joseph Decosimo (USA) is the superstar of old-time music, a fiddler and a banjo player. We will also present two bands from Hungary. Góbé and Pengetös Trió will invite the audience into a dance hub (Táncház) to enjoy beautiful folk songs as well as a world music party that wraps up the festival!
Maija Kauhanen, a kantele artist, who sensationally won the 2023 Nordic Council Music Prize will perform at our festival as a duo with a Swedish hurdy-gurdy player Johannes Geworkian Hellman. Another duo, Anna Murtola & Joonas Widenius, will bring us exoticism in the form of flamenco and Juurakko its new nature-themed concert entity. Frigg belongs to the absolute top of the Finnish folk music and the band will make the audience dance late Friday night. Jaakko Laitinen & Lapin Lisä will play a northern variant of schlager. Floating Sofa Quartet (FI, SE, DK) is an interesting modern Nordic folk music ensemble and Pekko Käppi & K:H:H:L is one of the most acclaimed Finnish folkrock acts.
Singer Susanna Haavisto’s 40th anniversary as an artist will happen on Saturday with the help of the Haapavesi House Band. Kaarle Viikate, who is known from the metal band Viikate, and a famous accordion player Netta Skog from the band Turisas will join their forces in telling tales with evergreens (Ikivihreitä tunnelmia ja tarinoita).
Thursday night will be brightened by Bee, a youth favourite, who has built a wonderful career in a short time. Recently a breakthrough was made by the duo emma & matilda, who will conquer the stage on Friday night and introduce their delicate modern time folk sound. Tuure Kilpeläinen, who has won multiple prizes, will perform with his new band on Saturday.
Hilja Grönfors has made her career in gathering Romani music, and she has then shared her culture's song tradition with the majority population of Finland. Ensemble Gamut! has created its unique sound by amalgamating elements from medieval music, Finnish folk songs, improvisation and electronic soundscapes. Emilia Lajunen has been awarded as the Artist of the Year at the Eläköön Folk Gala and she will perform Central Finnish fiddlers' repertoire in electric tone language together with Eero Grundström.
Our program will also include Finnish Baltic Sea tradition in a modern fashion. The duo Loimolan Voima consists of the two Saatsi brothers and in their music the tradition meets present day and the native and unfortunately endangered Karelian language meets modern tunes. In Sähköpaimen's music the beats and loops play with the following question: How would electronic music sound like, if it wasn't based on black rhythm music but on Karelian tradition of kantele and jouhikko?
And what would the festival be without kantele? The folk duo Cienna will present an intense weave of human voice and electro-acoustic kantele, and this collaboration was born from the friendship of the singer Kaisa Leskinen and the kantele artist Senni Eskelinen. The singer and kantele artist Riikka Yli-Kotila is originally from Ylivieska and her music On my family's land (Sukuni mailla) has been inspired by stories of current and bygone generations.
On Friday afternoon, our festival area is open for public free of charge, and the program includes dancing accompanied by Haapavesi's own Sirpa Ahola and Menomiehet as well as a seminar on Martti Pokela's musicianship. It is 100 years since Martti Pokela, the master of kantele and the distinguished reformer of the Finnish kantele tradition, was born and we will celebrate his legacy this year at the festival, Haapavesi having been his hometown.
The Children’s Day takes place on Saturday afternoon. There will be concerts and plenty of fun activities.
As always, the Haapavesi Chamber Orchestra with its talented guests will perform in the church on Friday evening. The YL Male Voice Choir’s summer collaboration Kesääni will perform on Thursday in their church concert with Arnold Chiwalala from Tanzania, Maija Kauhanen and singer Soila Sariola.
The Folk Courses are organised for the 37th time and there is a huge array of top-notch courses with Finnish and foreign musicians as teachers.
The ticket sales is on and early bird prices are available until 15th of June, get yours now at Tiketti webshop.
Check out the full programme and daily timetables:
The Haapavesi Folk Music Festival will be organised this summer at the usual time of the year, just after Midsummer! This time it takes place already for the 35th time from the 27th to the 29th of June 2024. This year we will have international artists from the USA, Hungary, Sweden and Denmark. Our Finnish artists represent the absolute top of the folk music and we aim to please especially younger audience with popular music choices.
From the USA, we will present world-renowned sisters Natalie and Brittany Haas, whose music combines influences from American, Celtic and Nordic traditional music. Joseph Decosimo (USA) is the superstar of old-time music, a fiddler and a banjo player. We will also present two bands from Hungary. Góbé and Pengetös Trió will invite the audience into a dance hub (Táncház) to enjoy beautiful folk songs as well as a world music party that wraps up the festival!
Maija Kauhanen, a kantele artist, who sensationally won the 2023 Nordic Council Music Prize will perform at our festival as a duo with a Swedish hurdy-gurdy player Johannes Geworkian Hellman. Another duo, Anna Murtola & Joonas Widenius, will bring us exoticism in the form of flamenco and Juurakko its new nature-themed concert entity. Frigg belongs to the absolute top of the Finnish folk music and the band will make the audience dance late Friday night. Jaakko Laitinen & Lapin Lisä will play a northern variant of schlager. Floating Sofa Quartet (FI, SE, DK) is an interesting modern Nordic folk music ensemble and Pekko Käppi & K:H:H:L is one of the most acclaimed Finnish folkrock acts.
Singer Susanna Haavisto’s 40th anniversary as an artist will happen on Saturday with the help of the Haapavesi House Band. Kaarle Viikate, who is known from the metal band Viikate, and a famous accordion player Netta Skog from the band Turisas will join their forces in telling tales with evergreens (Ikivihreitä tunnelmia ja tarinoita).
Thursday night will be brightened by Bee, a youth favourite, who has built a wonderful career in a short time. Recently a breakthrough was made by the duo emma & matilda, who will conquer the stage on Friday night and introduce their delicate modern time folk sound. Tuure Kilpeläinen, who has won multiple prizes, will perform with his new band on Saturday.
Hilja Grönfors has made her career in gathering Romani music, and she has then shared her culture's song tradition with the majority population of Finland. Ensemble Gamut! has created its unique sound by amalgamating elements from medieval music, Finnish folk songs, improvisation and electronic soundscapes. Emilia Lajunen has been awarded as the Artist of the Year at the Eläköön Folk Gala and she will perform Central Finnish fiddlers' repertoire in electric tone language together with Eero Grundström.
Our program will also include Finnish Baltic Sea tradition in a modern fashion. The duo Loimolan Voima consists of the two Saatsi brothers and in their music the tradition meets present day and the native and unfortunately endangered Karelian language meets modern tunes. In Sähköpaimen's music the beats and loops play with the following question: How would electronic music sound like, if it wasn't based on black rhythm music but on Karelian tradition of kantele and jouhikko?
And what would the festival be without kantele? The folk duo Cienna will present an intense weave of human voice and electro-acoustic kantele, and this collaboration was born from the friendship of the singer Kaisa Leskinen and the kantele artist Senni Eskelinen. The singer and kantele artist Riikka Yli-Kotila is originally from Ylivieska and her music On my family's land (Sukuni mailla) has been inspired by stories of current and bygone generations.
On Friday afternoon, our festival area is open for public free of charge, and the program includes dancing accompanied by Haapavesi's own Sirpa Ahola and Menomiehet as well as a seminar on Martti Pokela's musicianship. It is 100 years since Martti Pokela, the master of kantele and the distinguished reformer of the Finnish kantele tradition, was born and we will celebrate his legacy this year at the festival, Haapavesi having been his hometown.
The Children’s Day takes place on Saturday afternoon. There will be concerts and plenty of fun activities.
As always, the Haapavesi Chamber Orchestra with its talented guests will perform in the church on Friday evening. The YL Male Voice Choir’s summer collaboration Kesääni will perform on Thursday in their church concert with Arnold Chiwalala from Tanzania, Maija Kauhanen and singer Soila Sariola.
The Folk Courses are organised for the 37th time and there is a huge array of top-notch courses with Finnish and foreign musicians as teachers.
The ticket sales is on and early bird prices are available until 15th of June, get yours now at Tiketti webshop.
Check out the full programme and daily timetables:
