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| Most people think of a ships cruise in the sun but this is not the way if you live in Finland. What is probably the worlds most popular accordion cruise with 2,500 guests and performers is held where there is lots of ice and snow and its so beautiful. This year saw the heaviest ice ever in the 19 years of this popular winter cruise with many smaller ships being trapped in the ice and unable to move. Even ice-breakers were having troubles with the very thick ice. |
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| The thick ice (up to 14 metres thick) did not stop the fun on board with 2,500 guests enjoying nonstop activities including accordion music of many styles such as Finnish Folk Music and dancing, Cajun, Tex Mex, Jazz, accordion orchestras and ensembles, trade show displays of instruments, recordings and music and an accordion competition. Its an amazing atmosphere with bars, restaurants and corridors filled with accordion music. |
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| Acccordion Workshop |
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| Jaakko Laitinen & Väärä Raha |
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| Accordion Exhibition |
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| Kimmo Mattila and Aino Ojakoski playing for TV documentary cameras during the accordion cruise. |
 Veli-Matti Järvenpää Tex Mex Trio |
 Looking down onto one of the many performance areas. |
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| The finalists of Golden and Silver Accordion Competition 2010. Left behind: Katri Rantanen, Kirsi Korpela, Mari Laskujärvi, Timo Sormunen, Tuomas Kinnunen and Viivi Maria Saarenkylä (and from jury Jarmo Tinkala and Taisto Lunkka). At front row left: Aliisa Räsänen, Juuso Kortetmaa, Sonja Lampinen, Pilvi Huhta, Anniina Korhonen, Janina Suihkola and Aleksi Merras. |
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| Janina Suihkola and Timo Sormunen. |
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| Waiting for the results. |
| The finalists of The Golden Accordion 2010 are: Timo Sormunen Tuomas Kinnunen Katri Rantanen Kirsi Korpela Viivi Maria Saarenkylä Mari Laskujärvi The finalists of The Silver Accordion 2010 are: Pilvi Huhta Anniina Korhonen Juuso Kortetmaa Sonja Lampinen Aleksi Merras Aliisa Räsänen Janina Suihkola The finals will be arranged at Sata-Häme Soi festival on June 30th with live TV broadcast. |
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| People enjoying the winter landscape and the accordion music. Finnish TV channel MTV3 are making a documentary from the accordion cruise. Annaual reports of the Sata-Häme Soi Festival are online at: www.accordions.com/finland You can follow the 2010 Sata-Häme Soi Festival which will be fully reported daily beginning 29 June - 4 July, 2010. |
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On the 7th and 8th March, the largest cruiser in the Baltic Sea, Silja Europa was entirely reserved for accordion music lovers and was once again fully booked for the voyage, Turku to Stockholm.