Jazz Finland Live

One of the most vibrant festival cities in the partner country Finland is Tampere, boasting also the legendary Tampere Jazz Happening, which was established in 1982. This festival will host the late night party and jam session in Magazinkeller, serving some local beer along with the coolest live tunes – and who knows, maybe the Tampere jazzters have more surprises up their sleeve. (Save the date: 2-5 November 2017 is the next Happening.) Welcome, willkommen, tervetuloa!

LINE-UP: Finnish Allstar Jam Band
Hosted by Tampere Jazz Happening, Visit Tampere and Music Finland

Read more about the band and their booking: Jazz aus Finnland – Programme and Delegation.

The umbrella stand 6B40 is the home of the Finnish delegation and the showcase bands of the Finnish Night. Coordinated and hosted by Music Finland, you will find the stand right next to the Partner Country Lounge.

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Verneri Pohjola performing at the jazzahead! Club Night that spreads around the city on Saturday night.

Read more about the band and their booking: Jazz aus Finnland – Programme and Delegation.

The umbrella stand 6B40 is the home of the Finnish delegation and the showcase bands of the Finnish Night. Coordinated and hosted by Music Finland, you will find the stand right next to the Partner Country Lounge.

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Tuija Komi performing at the jazzahead! Club Night that spreads around the city on Saturday night.

Read more about the band and their booking: Jazz aus Finnland – Programme and Delegation.

The umbrella stand 6B40 is the home of the Finnish delegation and the showcase bands of the Finnish Night. Coordinated and hosted by Music Finland, you will find the stand right next to the Partner Country Lounge.

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Tuuletar performing at the jazzahead! Club Night that spreads around the city on Saturday night.

Read more about the band and their booking: Jazz aus Finnland – Programme and Delegation.

The umbrella stand 6B40 is the home of the Finnish delegation and the showcase bands of the Finnish Night. Coordinated and hosted by Music Finland, you will find the stand right next to the Partner Country Lounge.

Open event

Raoul Björkenheim eCsTaSy performing at the jazzahead! Club Night that spreads around the city on Saturday night.

Read more about the band and their booking: Jazz aus Finnland – Programme and Delegation.

The umbrella stand 6B40 is the home of the Finnish delegation and the showcase bands of the Finnish Night. Coordinated and hosted by Music Finland, you will find the stand right next to the Partner Country Lounge.

Open event

Dalindèo performing at the jazzahead! Club Night that spreads around the city on Saturday night.

Read more about the band and their booking: Jazz aus Finnland – Programme and Delegation.

The umbrella stand 6B40 is the home of the Finnish delegation and the showcase bands of the Finnish Night. Coordinated and hosted by Music Finland, you will find the stand right next to the Partner Country Lounge.

Open event

VIRTA performing at the jazzahead! Club Night that spreads around the city on Saturday night.

Read more about the band and their booking: Jazz aus Finnland – Programme and Delegation.

The umbrella stand 6B40 is the home of the Finnish delegation and the showcase bands of the Finnish Night. Coordinated and hosted by Music Finland, you will find the stand right next to the Partner Country Lounge.

Open event

Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble performing at the jazzahead! Club Night that spreads around the city on Saturday night.

Read more about the band and their booking: Jazz aus Finnland – Programme and Delegation.

The umbrella stand 6B40 is the home of the Finnish delegation and the showcase bands of the Finnish Night. Coordinated and hosted by Music Finland, you will find the stand right next to the Partner Country Lounge.

Open event

Tuija Komi Jazzahead! Trio performing at the jazzahead! Club Night that spreads around the city on Saturday night.

Read more about the band and their booking: Jazz aus Finnland – Programme and Delegation.

The umbrella stand 6B40 is the home of the Finnish delegation and the showcase bands of the Finnish Night. Coordinated and hosted by Music Finland, you will find the stand right next to the Partner Country Lounge.

Open event

Raoul Björkenheim eCsTaSy performing at the jazzahead! Club Night that spreads around the city on Saturday night.

Read more about the band and their booking: Jazz aus Finnland – Programme and Delegation.

The umbrella stand 6B40 is the home of the Finnish delegation and the showcase bands of the Finnish Night. Coordinated and hosted by Music Finland, you will find the stand right next to the Partner Country Lounge.

Open event

Tenors of Kalma performing at the jazzahead! Club Night that spreads around the city on Saturday night.

Read more about the band and their booking: Jazz aus Finnland – Programme and Delegation.

The umbrella stand 6B40 is the home of the Finnish delegation and the showcase bands of the Finnish Night. Coordinated and hosted by Music Finland, you will find the stand right next to the Partner Country Lounge.

Open event

Tickets from 42 €

Festival tickets are sold at Lippupiste web store and ticket outlets across Finland.

You may also purchase April Jazz tickets by phone from Lippupiste’s contact center: tel. +358 600 900 900 (1,98€/min + standard network rate), open daily Mon–Sat 9am–21pm and Sun 10am–6pm.

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Tickets from 6,50 €

Festival tickets are sold at Lippupiste web store and ticket outlets across Finland.

You may also purchase April Jazz tickets by phone from Lippupiste’s contact center: tel. +358 600 900 900 (1,98€/min + standard network rate), open daily Mon–Sat 9am–21pm and Sun 10am–6pm.

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Jukka Perko Triotone goes Dizzy – Album release concert!

Tickets from 24 €

Festival tickets are sold at Lippupiste web store and ticket outlets across Finland.

You may also purchase April Jazz tickets by phone from Lippupiste’s contact center: tel. +358 600 900 900 (1,98€/min + standard network rate), open daily Mon–Sat 9am–21pm and Sun 10am–6pm.

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With his sharply tailored suit and easy charm, singer-pianist Anthony Strong seems to happily fill the role of “The English Gentleman” often thrust upon him. His swaggering vocals and swinging piano style are matched by an energy that have entertained audiences at his live shows around the world. At April Jazz he will perform one of Finland’s most prominent big jazz orchestras, the Espoo Big Band,

One thing is sure: underneath the crowd-winning stage show, there is a seriously talented musician. The arrangements and orchestrations, up to full big band, were written by Strong himself. His piano playing belies a deep knowledge of the swinging greats – Wynton Kelly, Oscar Peterson, Bill
Evans – and his vocals have further matured during the course of more than 150 international performances.

Anthony’s formative early years were spent, on scholarships, at 3 of England’s leading music schools, first studying classical music before, eventually, turning to jazz piano. The early obsessions with Peterson, Evans and Kelly eventually led to Frank Sinatra, Mel Tormé and Nat King Cole; singing was the logical next step. Despite the stellar education, it was an out-of-the-blue offer to spend 9-months as understudy to Jerry Lee Lewis in a London West End musical that perhaps shaped his career most noticeably to where it is today, developing a stagecraft and audience rapport that has come to characterise his live show.

Anthony Strong, vocals & piano
Espoo Big Band:
Ville Vannemaa, director
Tero Lindberg, trumpet
Mikko Karjalainen, trumpet
Sami Pöyhönen, trumpet
Pemo Ojala, trumpet
Pekka Laukkanen, trombone
Heikki Tuhkanen, trombone
Valtteri Malmivirta, trombone
Juho Viljanen, trombone
Max Zenger, saxophone
Ari Jokelainen, saxophone
Manuel Dunkel, saxophone
Sampo Kasurinen, saxophone
Janne Murto, saxophone
Jarmo Saari, guitar
Eerik Siikasaari, bass
Rami Eskelinen, drums

Tickets from 20 €

Festival tickets are sold at Lippupiste web store and ticket outlets across Finland.

You may also purchase April Jazz tickets by phone from Lippupiste’s contact center: tel. +358 600 900 900 (1,98€/min + standard network rate), open daily Mon–Sat 9am–21pm and Sun 10am–6pm.

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Esa Pietilä, saxophone
Veli Kujala, accordion
Mika Kallio, percussion

Tickets from 12 €

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UMO and top Finnish artists Samuli Edelmann, Irina Björklund, Tuure Kilpeläinen and Antti Reini arrange a pre-party of a lifetime. The programme consists of a series of “Bad boys’ songs” by Finnish songwriter Juha “Watt” Vainio, pornographic music of decades gone by.

Tickets from Ticketmaster: Basic ticket €45; seats with a partly blocked view €40. Show & Dinner €90.50 (incl. a basic ticket and a dinner at restaurant Finlandia at 6 p.m.), Show & Dinner €86 (incl. seats with a partly blocked view and a dinner at restaurant Finlandia at 6 p.m.). Service fee included.

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