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Sata-Häme Soi Accordion Festival, Ikaalinen – Finlandby Rob Howard |
The Sata-Häme Soi Accordion Festival, incorporating the Primus Ikaalinen 2014 competition, takes place from July 1st to 6th. The Primus Ikaalinen has three main sections: The Golden Accordion (senior), The Silver Accordion (junior), and The Finnish Accordion Folk Musician Championships for Chromatic and Diatonic Accordions. The contestants in this year’s Primus Ikaalinen (Golden Accordion) competition include Xuan Shi – China, Sergey Lobkov – Russia, Guillaume Fric – France, Radu Laxgang – Moldova, Petar Maric – Serbia, Henriikka Santamaa – Finland, and Joni Stein – Finland. The idyllic centre of Old Town Ikaalinen is the centre of the large scale Sata-Häme Soi Accordion Festival, and music is in the air in the Festival Park and in the concert venues for a week. Both amateurs and world class musicians perform at Ikaalinen – providing the festival audience with an astonishing variety of musical styles. For further information email: toimisto@satahamesoi.fi |