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Two special small kantele workshops focusing on improvisation and creative music-making will be organised in the summer of 2025: 18-20 July 2025, The Heritage of the Karelian Kantele at the Cultural Centre and Conference Hotel Sofia, Kallvikinniementie 35, 00980 Helsinki 8-10 August 2025, Dialogue of Creativity at the Kallio-Kuninkala, the Järvenpää Campus of the University […]

Aikahyppy SKS:n kantelefonogrammeilta (A time leap from the kantelephonograms of the Finnish Literature Society). The third kantelephonogram album by Arja Kastinen was released on Etno.net in January 2025 (no. 191, recordings by the Folk Music Department of the Sibelius Academy, Uniarts Helsinki). The album is part of Arja Kastinen’s research project Kantele of the Runosong […]

Helsinki Night of the Arts, 15 August 2024. Arja Kastinen’s two-hour improvisation concert with small kanteles at the Kamppi Chapel from 18.00 to 20.00. Facebook-event. Free entry to the Chapel from 17.30. The audience may attend the whole event, or enter and leave when they please, respecting the quiet nature of the event. Arja Kastinen’s […]

This week’s RootsWorld magazine features a review of the Kantervo album by Andrew Cronshaw. The article also includes a review of a kantele & Hardanger fiddle album, Talende Strenger, by Ragnhild Knudsen & Pauliina Syrjälä. Andrew Cronshaw is a British multi-instrumentalist and world music journalist with a long and distinguished career. On his twelfth album, […]

The theme for the folk music festival Sommelo 2024 will be In the Pasture. There will be shepherd’s music and songs from many angles, from many countries, in diverse and intense ways. And as before, there are fascinating courses starting just before the festival. You can find the program in here: Sommelo 2024. Courses linked […]