Children’s concert
HETKUN KETKUN!
1 pm (Finnish time)
Ylitornio Municipal Hall
Tickets: lippu.fi
Folk group Freija performs music for the whole family to enjoy! Traditional and new children’s songs are the elements in this catchy program. Join to familiarize with variety of exciting instruments played the group and join the fun of song and play!
Freija
Arto Anttila – bass, vocals
Maija Karhinen-Ilo – vocals, accordion, recorders
Matti Laitinen – guitars, mandolin, vocals
Lassi Logrén – violin, keyed fiddle, bowed lyre, vocals
Folk group Freija is known for its rooted music, which it performs equally eagerly to children and adult audiences. Kiekkumaralla – Folk Songs for Children CD and book made the group popular at Finnish homes with children, and the repertoire has also been featured in the popular daily children’s television program Pikku Kakkonen. The group has performed in many children’s music albums, for instance Piilometsän Säveliä and Piilometsän Portti, which was chosen as the best children’s music album in Finland in 2022.
Concert
EXPEDITION
6 pm (Swedish time)
Övertorneå Church
free entry, offering
The astonishingly beautiful Övertorneå Church is the scene for a musical expedition binding together folk music, sacred music, and chamber music from different eras. The Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály found his unique voice through tireless efforts of collecting folk music form the Balkans. His grand work Duo for Violin and Cello finds home in the repertoire of the finest players of those instruments. Frequent performers in the world’s greatest concert halls, violinist Anna-Liisa Bezrodny and cellist Jan-Erik Gustafsson are natural performers of Kodály’s grand work, and in addition they offer a rendering of Händel’s Passacaglia, which was made popular in the catchy arrangement Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen. Paavali Jumppanen joins the celebrated string players in a rare potpourri of beloved tunes J.S. Bach.
The organizer reserves the right to make changes to the program.