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25-Nov-2011
‘Arctic Accents’ to display Finnish Accordion Masters - Beneluxby Holda Paoletti-Kampl |
  ‘Arctic Accents – Sounds of Finland 2011’ - is a season of music from Finland in the Benelux countries of Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg, in November and December. The Samuraï, Maria Kalaniemi, Värttinä and Kimmo Pohjonen, and Uniko are all featured in the Arctic Accents program.Accordionist Maria Kalaniemi is on tour with her trio, which includes Olli Varis and Eero Grundström. The Maria Kalaniemi Trio were on stage on November 17th at deSingel (Antwerp, BE), November 18th at Muziekpublique (Brussels, BE), and on November 19th at RASA (Utrecht, NL). Accordion super group The Samuraï has roots all around Europe. Besides Finland’s Markku Lepistö, the quintet features Bruno Le Tron (France), Didier Laloy (Belgium), Riccardo Tesi (Italy) and David Munnelly (Ireland). Samuraï will do an extensive tour of Belgium from November 17th to 26th. Accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen and sample wizard Samuli Kosminen join forces with the Proton String Quartet in the astonishing contemporary project Uniko, built around accordion and sampling. Uniko is on stage at Ancienne Belgique (Brussels) on December 5th. But it’s not only accordions: Värttinä take their new line-up of three singers and three acoustic musicians as well as their brisk tunes to Belgium just before the holidays. This vanguard of the Finnish folk music export takes the stage in Antwerp on December 15th and at AB in Brussels on December 17th. For further information email: henna.salo(at)fimic.fi |