Singer-songwriter Vilma Jää has earned acclaim in two far-flung worlds – #opera and folk-pop – while tackling tough societal issues.

#FinnishMusic #finland #FolkMusic #Karelia #Ingria #VilmaJaa

https://musicfinland.com/en/news/vilma-jaa-music-is-my-activism

Happy 100th birthday to Finnish #jazz
🎺🎉🚢

It all started with a ship from #NYC

#finland #finnishmusic #wilfred
https://musicfinland.fi/en/news/finnish-jazz-at-100-it-all-started-with-a-ship-from-new-york

My chat with Finnish saxophonist Linda Fredriksson for the NYC #Jazz Record:

"Something new is starting to rise, but I don’t know what it is yet”

#Mopo
#KiriRa!
#NorthernGovernors
#UltraBra etc
#finland #finnishmusic

https://nycjazzrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/10-1.pdf

Jukka Eskola and Pauli Lyytinen: Wandering new paths in #jazz and beyond

#joik #sápmi #finland #finnishmusic
https://www.fmq.fi/articles/eskola-and-lyytinen-wandering-new-paths-in-jazz-and-beyond

Another pick for this week's #JukeboxFridayNight theme, #PunkRock. Here's a Finnish #ProtoPunk classic by the group Virtanen, with lead singer Moog Konttinen and guitarist Veltto Virtanen.

Virtanen: Elektroninen Xtaasi ("Iltatähti", 30.4.1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiFQ_sDVJHA

Veltto Virtanen later went on to become a member of the Finnish Parliament, but his political career is another (and almost equally zany) story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veltto_Virtanen

#Virtanen #VelttoVirtanen #MoogKonttinen #Finnishmusic #suomirock

This week's #JukeboxFridayNight theme is #PunkRock. Here's one of the Finnish punk pioneers, Pelle Miljoona, and one of his best-known early songs, the title of which roughly translates to "Violence and substance abuse". At the time, he was obviously a man with a message!

Pelle Miljoona & N.U.S. - Väkivalta ja päihdeongelma (live 1978)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udmex9dmAQE

#PelleMiljoona #suomirock #finnishmusic

"Easy listening" but finnish.
Good way to check your level of finnish (mine is just three words over the zero)

Veikko Lavi - Silakka-apajalla
https://youtu.be/329vcSNGKQQ?si=gExOO2sVJ0BfRPsE

#song #music #finnish #finnishlanguage #spelling #finland #finnishsong #finnishmusic #VeikkoLavi

Sibelius - Symphony No 3 in C major, Op 52 - Salonen
https://youtu.be/_iPYeALbp50?si=UNFWNfPuH_HjYqrk

I love this piece so much, from the bass and cello quirky but energetic folk dance opening to the stirring chorale theme towards the end of the third and final movement.

It's often described as a piece in which Sibelius turned to classicism. I would prefer to describe it as a constrained romanticism, the very lack of grandiloquent bombast adding so much to the emotional power which comes to fruition as the symphony concludes.

For all sorts of reasons, some of them purely personal, I am attached to this particular performance.

I listen to this symphony frequently. Each time I do so I feel a new and better life surge up within me.

I can't guarantee it will have the same effect on you, but do give it a go. It's only about thirty minutes long, so even if it does little or nothing for you, you won't feel a huge chunk has been taken out of your time.

If, on the other hand, it does work for you, then time and time again over the rest of your life you will want to renew that half hour experience .

#ClassicalMusic #JeanSibelius #SymphonyNo3 #SymphonicMusic #FinnishMusic

Finnish jazz at 100: It all started with a ship from New York

#finland #finnishmusic #jazz
https://musicfinland.com/en/news/finnish-jazz-at-100-it-all-started-with-a-ship-from-new-york

Composer Meriheini Luoto: #DeepListening
in the wild

“I’m not really inside any particular genre,” says Luoto.

Her latest album, Talven uneen vaipuen (“Falling Into Winter’s Sleep”), nominated as album of the year in both #classical and #folk categories, delves deep into mixed feelings about nature.

#finnishmusic #minimalism #experimentalmusic #finland
https://www.fmq.fi/articles/composer-meriheini-luoto-deep-listening-in-the-wild