Jazz Finland Live

The concerts are free for Kruununvoudintalo's pop-up restaurant customers, in other cases tickets are 10€. In case of rain, the concerts will be held indoors at Kruununvoudintalo.

Welcome to enjoy good food and swinging music! During the summer the concert series Kruununvoudin Puutarhajazz brings jazz concerts every other Wednesday evening to the large garden of Kruununvoudintalo in Kokkola city. The house band and innovators of the concept Söderbacka-Matikainen Duo (Martin Söderbacka and Eevalotta Matikainen) perform together with different guest artists in each concert.

Tonight's guest artist is saxophone player Joonatan Rautio.

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Saxophonist Pauli Lyytinen, accordionist Harri Kuusijärvi and bassist Eero Tikkanen are performing in Western Lapland during the best fall colors. The nature’s multi-toned palette reflects also the acoustic trio’s music, as they paint it with both, the reds, yellows and blacks of Argentinian tango and the blues, greens and whites of the Finnish seasons – blended with the rainbow of jazz.

“Tour in Lapland is a return to the roots. Not just my own, but also the band’s: the unforgettable founding camp of the trio took place some years ago in Pello’s Lankojärvi lake. Lapland’s strange magic is still a part of the band’s dna”, says accordionist Kuusijärvi.

Kuusijärvi sees Jazz Finland’s climate project as an important and concrete step towards sustainable touring: “In a country the size of Finland, it’s practically impossible to be a professional performing artist without covering a decently large turf and mileage. Already we think about our carbon footprint, prefer trains over flights, and some pioneers have even tried carbon-neutral touring. We hope that carbon-neutrality is soon a given thing on jazz tours too.”.

Sole Azul
Pauli Lyytinen, saxophone / Harri Kuusijärvi, accordion / Eero Tikkanen, double bass

https://www.harrikuusijarvi.com/soleazul 

Sole Azul on a Residency Tour 15.–21.8.2022

Mon 15.8. at 19.00 Kittilä, Kaukonen, Töpäri
Wed 17.8. at 17.00 Muonio, Muonio library
Fri 19.8. at 18.00 Äkäslompolo, Yllästunturi Nature Centre Kellokas
Sat 20.8. at 18.00 Tornio, Åström Manor Courtyard Riihi
Sun 21.8. at 16.00 Rovaniemi, Ounasvaara’s Juhannuskallion lava

Produced in co-operation with Hiljaisuus association

In 2022–2023, Jazz Finland runs a project, titled Jazz Finland’s carbon-neutral touring model. The aim is to map the carbon footprint and handprint of Finnish live music, and to develop Jazz Finland’s own tour system to become more environmentally sustainable. On top of their three regular tour productions, Jazz Finland produces or supports seven pilot tours in the fall of 2022.

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