Sommelo Events 2012

The Ethno Music Festival Sommelo is an annual music event, organised in the Finnish province of Kainuu and in Viena Karelia (Russia), taking place in late June/early July. The Sommelo Festival 2012 will run from 28th June until 2nd July. The music courses start earlier the same week.

Kuhmo is the main venue for the Sommelo Festival in the province of Kainuu. The seminars, training courses and the majority of the concerts on the Finnish side will take place there. Other concert venues for Sommelo 2012 in Kainuu will be Ristijärvi, Sotkamo and Suomussalmi. The Sommelo concerts in the province of Kainuu will take place 28th - 30th June. In Viena Karelia there will be concerts in Uhtua and Haikola on 1st–2nd July.


 

konsertti

Wednesday 20th June 6 p.m.
Community centre Virtaala, Koulutie 4, Ristijärvi
Emmi Kuittinen
Free admission

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Wednesday 27th June 6 p.m.
The Children’s concert of the Kuhmo Summer Musicians
Kuhmo Arts Centre
Free admission

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Thursday 28th June 9.00 a.m.
Juminkeko
Tickets 4/2 €

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Thursday 28th June 10.00 a.m.
Kuhmo marketplace
Maija Karhinen-Ilo, Petri Prauda, Seesjärven mummot, Noid and the attendees of the Näppäri course
Free admission

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Thursday 28th June 12.00 noon – 1.45 p.m.
Kuhmo Arts Centre, Pajakka Hall
Free admission

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Thursday 28th June 2.00 p.m.
Kuhmo Arts Centre, Café Juttua
Free admission

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Performers include Maija Karhinen-Ilo & Freija, Brigitte Kloareg with Katell Kloareg (France) and Susanne Rosenberg (Sweden)
Thursday 1st July 2010 at 7 p.m.
Kuhmo Arts Centre, Lentua Hall
Tickets 18/12 €
The concert has an intermission.
With an S-group bonus card a discount of 2 euro is available off the ticket price.

 

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Thursday 28th June at 9 p.m.
Kuhmo Arts Centre, Pajakka Hall
Tickets 10/8 €

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Hivshu will talk about the musical traditions of Greenland in English.
Thursday 28th June 10.00 p.m.
Beach, the Sommelo Festival Tent
Tickets 10/8 €

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Friday 29th June 9.00 a.m.
Kuhmo marketplace
Various performers from amongst the Sommelo’s Players
Free admission

 

Friday 29th June, 10.00 p.m.
Kuhmo Arts Centre, Lentua Hall
Tickets 3 €

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Saturday 30th June 12.00 noon – 1.45 p.m.
Kuhmo Arts Centre, Pajakka Hall
Free admission

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Friday 29th June 2.00 p.m.
Kuhmo Arts Centre, Café Juttua
Free admission

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Friday 29th June 4.00 p.m.
Kuhmo Arts Centre, back yard
Free admission

FolkJam
FolkJam® is a new Finnish form of dance exercise in which you can experience the communal spirit and joy of dance. This form of exercise, based on traditional dance movements, suits all, regardless of age or the level of dancing skills! In FolkJam® each swinger is allowed to feel at home in his/her own body, so this form of exercise may reach even physically impaired or other special needs groups. Come and join us by yourself or with your friends, you won’t need a pair!

Instructor: Salla Korja-Paloniemi

 

Friday 29th June 5.00 p.m.
Kuhmo Church
Tickets 15/10 €

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Friday 29th June 7.00 p.m.
Kuhmo Arts Centre, Lentua Hall
Bagpipe music from Finland, Estonia and Brittany
Performers include RO:TORO (Estonia), Dmitri Demin (Russia), Päre and Klervi Rivière, Damien Malardé and Pierre-Yves Pétillon (France)
Tickets 18/12 €
The concert has an intermission.
With an S-group bonus card a discount of 2 euro is available off the ticket price.

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Friday 29th June at 6 p.m.
Lentiira Holiday Village
Seesjärvi Group, Vepsian Folk Choir, Brigitte Kloareg and Katell Kloareg
Tickets 10/8 € (tickets on sale only at the entrance)

 

Friday 29th June 9.00 p.m.
Kuhmo Arts Centre, Café Juttua
Improvisation Project TSIP of the Tsuumi and Antti Savilampi and Keiketys with their friends, along with Seesjärvi Group and Vepsian Folk Choir
Tickets 10/8 €

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Sami Kukka and Teppanan Veljet
Friday 29th June, 11.00 p.m.
Beach, the Sommelo Festival Tent
Tickets 10/8 €

 

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Saturday 30th June, 9.00 p.m.
Kuhmo marketplace
Various performers from amongst the Sommelo’s Players
Free admission

 

Saturday 30th June, 10.00 a.m.
Kuhmo Arts Centre, back yard
Free admission

FolkJam
FolkJam® is a new Finnish form of dance exercise in which you can experience the communal spirit and joy of dance. This form of exercise, based on traditional dance movements, suits all, regardless of age or the level of dancing skills! In FolkJam® each swinger is allowed to feel at home in his/her own body, so this form of exercise may reach even physically impaired or other special needs groups. Come and join us by yourself or with your friends, you won’t need a pair!

Instructor: Salla Korja-Paloniemi

 

Saturday 30th June, 10.00 a.m.
Kuhmo Arts Centre, Lentua Hall
Tickets 3 €

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Saturday 30th June 10.00 a.m. and 12.00 noon
The Sotkamo marketplace
Free admission

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Saturday 30th June, 12.00 noon
Kuhmo Arts Centre, Lentua Hall
Tickets 3 €

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Friday 29th June 12.00 noon – 1.45 p.m.
Kuhmo Arts Centre, Pajakka Hall
Free admission

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Saturday 30th June, 1.00 p.m.
Kuhmo Arts Centre, Café Juttua
Tickets 10/8 €

 

Saturday 30th June, 2.00 p.m.
Kuhmo Arts Centre, Café Juttua
KaMina and musicians from Kainuu region
Tickets 10/8 €

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Saturday 30th June, 3.00 p.m.
Kuhmo Arts Centre, Lentua Hall
Tickets 15/10 €

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Saturday 30th June, 5.00 p.m.
Kuhmo Church
Concert with Maari Kallberg, Taito Hoffrén, Eero Grundström, Pekka Huttu-Hiltunen, Minna Seilonen, Jarmo Kokkonen and others
Tickets 15/10 €

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Saturday 30th June, 7.00 p.m.
Kuhmo Arts Centre, Lentua Hall
Tickets 18/12 €
The concert has an intermission.
With an S-group bonus card a discount of 2 euro is available off the ticket price.

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The poets Johanna Venho Riina Katajavuori, Vilja-Tuulia Huotarinen and Ville Hytönen are in search of the layers of time with musician Eero Grundström.
Saturday 30th June, 9.00 p.m.
Beach, the Sommelo Festival Tent
Tickets 10/8 €

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Saturday 30th June, 10.30 p.m.
Hotel Kainuu
Von & Af, Kardemimmit, Noid and dj JS666
Tickets 12/8 € (upper floor)

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Kardemimmit
Sunday 1st July 3.00 p.m.
Domnan pirtti, Suomussalmi
Tickets 10/8 €

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Sunday 1st July 7.00 p.m.
Community Centre, Uhtua
Vepsian Folk Choir, Susanne Rosenberg, children’s kantele ensemble and Seesjärvi Group
Tickets 400 roubles

 

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Sunday 1st July 10.00 p.m.
Miitkala lakeside, Uhtua
Kuhmon Keiketys, Seesjärvi Group and Sommelo musicians
Tickets 200 roubles (tickets on sale only at the entrance)

 

Monday 2nd July
about 11.00 a.m.– about 6.00 p.m.
The Haikola Village
Ticket for the day, 450 roubles

 

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Juminkeko has commissioned a composition based on the themes of the Kalevala epic for children. The duration of the composition is one month and one day. The premiere of the work starts on Friday 30th June and it goes on until 31st July. The lengthy performance, which is played from a tape, contains moments of more condensed music, the times and hours of which are given below. One may come and listen to and be part of the composition during the opening hours of Juminkeko.

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