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The Kanteletupa-workshops will be held twice this autumn: October 15 and November 26 from noon to 2 p.m. at the Helsinki Mu­sic Cen­tre’s Ground Foyer. The third workshop will be held in the Organo hall in January 29, 2023. Welcome! The workshops will be part of the research project The Dialogue of Creativity. At the […]

This year’s Silence Festival in Kaukonen, Kittilä, Finland, offers two special performances connected to the ancient kantele improvisation. On Fri, June 10, Drop of a Light – Tom Collin & Arja Kastinen at 3, 4 and 5 p.m. Premiere of a new cross-disciplinary collaboration created in Kaukonen village during the festival week. Floor acrobat Tom […]

The contents of Arja’s research project as a Visiting Researcher at the Sibelius Academy Folk Music Department, The University of Arts Helsinki, is now published on its own site. The project title is: Kantele of the Runosong Culture and the Dialogue of Creativity. The project examines kantele improvisation within the Finnish-Karelian runosong culture, its various […]

The album Forest of a Thousand Songs by Peter Phippen & Arja Kastinen is now available also on BandCamp. Some of the other released albums will probably be also added in BandCamp in the near future.

The events and lessons of the Runoi’s Kantele Camp can be followed online on the camp’s youtube-channel.  The events are free and the lessons are available via paid links. Live streaming by Jarmo Romppanen from Videotuotanto Vauhtiluiska Oy. Some events may be published retrospectively. The details of each stream will be informed closer to the […]