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JuuriJuhla-atmosphere in Yle Radio 1:

27.4. "Pelimannien ja laulun juhlaa"
At 19.03 JuuriJuhla: Uudenmaan Pelimanni Big Band, conducted by Pekka Pentikäinen and MeNaiset. (Recorded in Leppävaara church, Espoo 5.4.)
At approx. 20.00 Transkapela (Poland) (Recorded at Kaustinen Folk Music Festival 17.7.2009)
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4.5. "Albergan kartanosta kiinalaisten laulujen huimiin äänimaisemiin"
At 19.03 JuuriJuhla: Pekka Pentikäinen & Perttu Paappanen, Kardemimmit (Recorded 8.4. in Albergan kartano, Leppävaarassa)
At approx. 20.00 Chinese folk song stars (Recorded at Kaustinen Folk Music Festival 16.7.2009)
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At the Yle Areena you can also listen to:
7.4. JuuriJuhla Live!
Direct broadcast recorded 6.4. at 19.03 - 20.30
Archipelago evening in a Finnish-Swedish way. Performers Aspö-trio and Maria Kalaniemi & Eero Grundström. Editor Sirkka Halonen. (Lagstad Hembygdsgård, Espoo)
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JuuriJuhla-RotFest says thank you

This year’s JuuriJuhla-RotFest is happily over. The public found the event very nicely, in total over 1000 folk music and folk dance enthusiasts visited the festival. Especially popular this year were the small-scale concerts, both Lagstad hembygdsgård and Alberga mansion were crowded with audience. Well visited was also the church concert on Monday, arranged in Leppävaara church for the first time.

A new thing this year was folk dance. The concert ”Nouse lempi liehumahan!” in the Sello Hall presented an impressive cross-section of Finnish folk dance – from speedy Carelian mood to farce and touching war-time-memories. Folk dance was featured also at the Children’s Saturday, which gathered a lot of people to for example listen to the Pilpatus-playing and join Mikko Perkoila’s instrument building workshop.

Emma Salokoski and Ilmiliekki Quartet performed in the Sello Hall for an enthusiastic audience. Jukka Hauru called the project quite a risk in his review (Helsingin Sanomat 9.4.) and noted that ”the combination of Swedish-speaking folk songs and art jazz must be the most non-commercial you can think of besides opera”, but praised the artists. “Salokoskis and Verneri Pohjolas melodic cooperation was unique to hear. Salokoskis voice treatment has raised to a new level inspired by Pohjola.”
Three of the JuuriJuhla-concerts were recorded by Yle Radio 1. One was broadcasted directly and the other two will be broadcasted as part of the Folk music nights during spring.

JuuriJuhla-RotFest 2011 will be arranged during week 14. Artistic director is Maria Kalaniemi, internationally acclaimed accordion player and honorary arts professor.
Below some festival atmosphere from this year, pictures by Jorma Airola.


MeNaiset 5.4.	Maria Kalaniemi & Eero Grundström 6.4.	Emma Salokoski & Ilmiliekki Quartet 7.4.

Pekka Pentikäinen 8.4.	Kardemimmit 8.4.	Katrilli 9.4.

Kirjavat 9.4.	Pilpatus-soitot 10.4.	Riinat ja Rikut 10.4.

Exceptional audiences at JuuriJuhla Tuesday

The second day of JuuriJuhla-RotFest included daytime dancing as well as archipelago music. Both events gathered some exceptionally big audiences. Over 100 people came to the Finnish-Swedish archipelago night at very intimate Lagstad hembygdsgård and in the foyer of the Sello Hall over 120 danced intensively to live music played by Espoo Accordion Club
The concert in Lagstad was broadcasted live on Yle Radio 1 and you can hear it on the Yle Areena from Wednesday 7th of April and one month forward. More information: www.yleradio1.fi/musiikki/kansanmusiikinilta/.
Ole Nerdrum's review of the opening concert was published in Hufvudstadsbladet 7.4. He praised the Leppävaara church as an excellent concert venue for acoustic music. Special praises went to vocal ensemble MeNaiset and their improvised Metsä (The Forest), a piece where they imitated different bird sounds. Unfortunately the name of the violin soloist was wrong - Kasmir Uusitupa was the soloist of the Uudenmaan Pelimanni Big Band.
(7.4.2010)

Striking start of JuuriJuhla

JuuriJuhla-RotFest 2010 started nicely with the opening concert in Leppävaara church on Easter monday. MeNaiset and Uudenmaan Pelimanni Big Band performed for an 250 people strong audience. Today's concert (6.4.) will be broadcasted live on Yle Radio 1. Wednesday morning 7.4. you can hear an interview with project secretary Tove Djupsjöbacka on the morning news of Radio Vega, approximately at 6.40 am.
(6.4.2010)

JuuriJuhla nicely visible in the Espoo press

The local press in Espoo have noted JuuriJuhla festival in a nice way, articles are featured in Länsiväylä and Esse magazines. JuuriJuhla is also mentioned in the info magazine Espoo Esbo.
Take a look at the articles:
Länsiväylä 31.3., JuuriJuhla-article on page 19.
Esse 31.3.
Espoo Esbo 1/2010
(31.3.2010)

Handicraft of all kinds

The Children's Saturdat at JuuriJuhla also feature a handicrafts market where you can buy many kinds of handicrafts - for example handmade paper, jewellery, socks made of doghair and lots of folk music recordings. Taidetta tauotta -ryhmä, Marita Nordman, Helmi Malmström and Finnish Folk Music Association are taking part in the market.
Handicrafts market in the Sellosali foyer Sat 10.4. at 12-15.

Pilpatus program published

The spring event Pilpatus has been arranged since 1985. This year it takes place at Saturday 10th of April as a part of JuuriJuhla festival. Pilpatus brings folk music into hospitals and senior houses and to the Sello Hall foyer. More details you'll find here. The traditional Pilpatus evening is held the same day at Honkamaja at 19. Performers are the young Emon kamut, Vantaan Kansanpelimannit, folk dance group Lohjanseudun Tanhuujat, vocal ensemble Kiehinä and Jenni ja Mummonpojat. Espoon pelimannit plays for dance and Nuuksio-Seura serves coffee. Host is Ulla Hillebrandt. Tickets at the door 5€.

JuuriJuhla on Facebook

Join the JuuriJuhla-RotFest group on Facebook! You'll find us here.

Program changes Friday 9th of April

There are a few program changes on our folk dance night Nouse lempi liehumahan! Maarit Kyllönen will unfortunately not perform. Folk dance groups Katrilli and Kärri will both perform two short pieces.

Direct broadcast from JuuriJuhla at Yle Radio 1

The Archipelago evening in a Finnish-Swedish way on Tuesday 6th of April will be broadcasted live on Yle Radio 1, as part of their Folk music evening. Performers are Aspö-trio and Maria Kalaniemi & Eero Grundström. Editor Sirkka Halonen. Yle Radio 1 will also record the JuuriJuhla opening concert (5.4.) and the concert at Alberga mansion (8.4.). These will be broadcasted later this spring.
More information: www.yleradio1.fi/musiikki/kansanmusiikinilta/

JuuriJuhla-RotFest on YLE Teema

Finnish television channel YLE Teema showed a series in five parts about Finnish contemporary folk music during January-February. The series contained parts shot at JuuriJuhla festival last year, among others concerts with Frigg, Jouhiorkesteri and Maria Kalaniemi & Pekka Lehti.
On the series home page you can enjoy glimpses from the process and short clips, among others an interview with JuuriJuhla's artistic director Maria Kalaniemi as well as jouhikko virtuoso Ilkka Heinonen, who plays jouhikko, sings and balances on a bicycle - at the same time!
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In the picture Tuomas Logrén from Frigg shows, how to change your guitar string in less than ten seconds.

JuuriJuhla-RotFest getting closer!

Buy your ticket to the Sello Hall concerts from Lippupiste!

JuuriJuhla-RotFest 2010 - program published

The JuuriJuhla-RotFest program was published on the Folklandia cruise 8.1.2010.
The program will soon be updated in English also. While waiting, check it out in Finnish.

JuuriJuhla-club at Helsinki Music Expo

Helsinki Music Expo is arranged at Helsinki Fair Centre 22.–25.10.2009. At monter 4b10 you may find the folk music department with the Central Committee of Folk Music and Dance, Finnish Folk Music Association and Kansanmusiikkiopisto.
Folk music live can be heard for example at the JuuriJuhla-club, which presents many skillful folk music duos Thursday 22.10. between 12 am and 5 pm. The club is presented by folk music festival JuuriJuhla-RotFest from Espoo. The club is to be found in Fazer restaurang Pinchos right at the southern main entrance to the Fair Centre.
Performers:
12 am Puhti
1 pm Juha Virtanen and Elina Järvelä
2 pm Pekka Pentikäinen and Perttu Paappanen
3 pm Maija Karhinen-Ilo and Lassi Logrén
4 pm Cás-duo

Helsinki Music Expo 22.-25.10. at Helsinki Fair Centre
Open daily from 10 am to 6 pm, Friday at 10 am to 8 pm. www.helsinginmusiikkimessut.fi
(20.10.2009)

Pentikäinen and Savilampi artistic directors for JuuriJuhla 2010

Since the first JuuriJuhla-festival (2003) accordionist, artist professor Maria Kalaniemi has been the artistic director of the festival. This year Kalaniemi will take a year off from JuuriJuhla and concentrate on other tasks.

Artistic directors of JuuriJuhla 2010 are two men living in Espoo and having much experience of the folk music and folk dance field. Pekka Pentikäinen is Master of Music from the Sibelius-Academy and well acquainted with traditional styles on 2 and 5-row accordion, as well as contemporary folk music, new compositions and accordion styles more close to popular music. Pentikäinen performs solo and in several ensembles, for example together with famous schlager singers Vieno Kekkonen and Pirkko Mannola. He is also the leader of folk music group Espoon pelimannit.

Antti Savilampi has done his life work in the field of Finnish folk dance. He is one of Finland's most respected folk dance teachers and choreographers. He has worked for decades as folk dance instructor in among others Suomen Nuorisoseurojen Liitto, Sibelius-Academy and different dance groups. The Huutokatrilli quadrille directed by Savilampi and accompanied by JPP is already a legend.

-We also want to open doors for folk dance, tells executive director Päivi Ylönen-Viiri. In the coming years we also hope to see Nordic folk music bands of high quality at the JuuriJuhla stages.

Next time JuuriJuhla will be arranged 5.-10.4.2010. The program is published in January 2010.
(1.6.2009)