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Lost In Music 2009
If you want to hear Finnish music, you must come to Tampere in October and get lost in music. Over 80 artists will perform on 12 different venues during the four days that the Lost In Music showcasing music festival lasts. Celebrated at the same time as the industry gathering Music & Media, in Tampere [...]
Blitzen Trapper
Let us interrupt our regular programming to write about some of the most interesting foreign acts visiting Finland. We want to start this new section with the modern americana and stupendous three part harmonies of Blitzen Trapper that last Tuesday started their European Tour in Helsinki.
Lows and highs at Provinssirock
Last Saturday I went a couple of hours up North to attend Provinssirock in Seinäjoki, a rather small city in Southern Ostrobothnia that during three days doubles its population and welcomes the parade of festivals goers. Those who have followed my posts in ALLSCANDINAVIAN are already aware that the line-up this year was not my [...]
Three days of peace, love and metal
During last Saturday’s performance, the singer of Hammerfall said that it was the coldest sauna he had ever been, and indeed, this year’s Sauna Open Air festival in Tampere was marked by weather conditions that drifted from cold and rain on Friday to a sunny picnic day on Sunday. But despite bad weather, metalheads and [...]
