Django Collective Helsinki Club Launches Autumn Season in August
The significant low-threshold cultural service is launching its 12th autumn season.
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Puhos Loves People celebrates diversity in eastern Helsinki, Saturday 3 August
Puhos Loves People 2024 is an outdoor cultural festival for the whole family.
Atmospheric Turku Sea Jazz begins today
The urban and marine Turku Sea Jazz festival brings the hottest rhythms of Finnish and international jazz to the west coast.
Åland Sea Jazz serves Nordic top jazz 9–10 August in Mariehamn
For the fourth time, Åland Sea Jazz invites you to enjoy high-quality Nordic jazz in Mariehamn on August 9-10. This intimate boutique event in Mariehamn concludes the summer's Archipelago Sea Jazz festival series in style.
Jazz-Espa Anniversary Year offers Diverse Music Program and Jazz Talks
Jazz-Espa offers the hottest jazz in Helsinki once again at the turn of July and August. In addition to current jazz concerts, the week-long urban festival from July 29 to August 3, 2024, features interesting discussions about the future of jazz and music journalism. A new highlight of the anniversary year is Jazz- Espa's Children's Saturday, with concerts suitable for the whole family.
Korpo Sea Jazz takes place on the last weekend of July
Known for its intimate and experimental nature, Korpo Sea Jazz showcases some of the most intriguing names in contemporary Finnish jazz, such as the internationally renowned jazz guitarist Olli Soikkeli and the young virtuoso Maja Mannila. The festival includes individual concerts and free events held around historical sites in the Korpo archipelago, surrounded by nature and the sea.
Odysseus Festival dismantles performer hierarchy and mainstream-defined ways of talking about music.
Odysseus Festival, dedicated to adventurous music, moves to a new environment at the Culture Factory Korjaamo, where the event will take place over two days on July 19–20. The event will not feature "alternative music," "marginal music," or "world music."
SaloJazz Festival serves a multifaceted program in September
The cozy and high-quality SaloJazz Festival will be held for the thirteenth time at the end of September during the market weekend.
Suzanne's Green Pilot tour arrives in Finland and Estonia in July
Suzanne is a collective voice that brings together violist Maëlle Desbrosses, bass clarinettist Hélène Duret and guitarist Pierre Tereygeol in their quest for folk songs of the new century. In July 2024, the French trio heads to Estonia and Finland for a new episode of the Europe Jazz Network’s (EJN) Green Pilot Tour program.
Antti Sarpila and Pekka Toivanen Named Jazz Legends No. 43 and 44
Clarinetist Antti Sarpila and saxophonist Pekka Toivanen were awarded the Finnish Jazz Legend prizes on June 27, 2024, in Imatra. The award can be given to a musician who has made a significant career as a jazz performer, composer, arranger, or conductor and is still actively performing.