HERD club goes tri-city touring
Vibraphone trio HERD hosts a series of clubs monthly during the fall of 2013. The first three nights feature saxophone virtuoso Jukka Perko.
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UMO releases a new award for audience education
Music teacher Stina Myllys has been credited the first annual award for audience work by UMO Jazz Orchestra.
Flame Jazz releases fall season programme
Flame Jazz continues to enrich the culture life of Turku by thirteen live jazz concerts and a cruise. This season's main stage will be the Swedish Theatre, Åbo Svenska Teater.
Consultation workshops in event production
The VAAHTO project organizes concert production workshops around Finland during fall 2013. The workshops are held in Finnish, but depending on the participants' wishes, can be partly run in English also.
Jazz Finland seminar in Helsinki Music Centre
The website that you're currently flicking through, Jazz Finland, is being officially launched in a Jazz Finland seminar in Helsinki Music Centre on September 5th.
Funding for art projects between EU countries and Mexico
The National Culture and Art Fund FONCA and the European Union delegate in Mexico offer funding for cultural and art events in early 2014, involving both, Mexican and European participants.
Jazz band HERD performs in the Prime Minister's reception on the Night Of The Arts in Helsinki
Finnish HERD trio featuring sax player Joakim Berghäll play at the Open Doors event in the Prime Minister's residence Kesäranta. Helsinki celebrates then, on the 22nd of August, Kesäranta's 140-year anniversary.
Kadi Quartet to represent Finland in a Nordic YNJC showcase
Trondheim's Dokkhuset turns into a stage for the freshest and most topical Nordic jazz of the year in the annual Young Nordic Jazz Comets showcase night on the 12th of September. The YNJC showcase features six bands from the five Nordic countries, and teh Faroe Islands. This year's Finnish representative is vocalist Kadi Vija's Kadi Quartet.
Rob Young of The Wire listened to the Young Nordic Jazz Comets
Rob Young, journalist in such alternative music medias as the British magazine 'The Wire', listened through this year's Young Nordic Jazz Comets bands. In his article he found more to the concept of Nordic contemporary jazz, than traditionally meets the eye - or the ear... This year's YNJC showcase is held in Trondheim on the 12th of September. Among the six acts from all the Nordic countries and the Faroe Islands, the Finnish representative Kadi Quartet is also mentioned in Young's article.
Kaamosjazz reforms
The northernmost jazz festival in Finland, Inari's Kaamosjazz has now an Artistic Director, Aarno Cronwall, who is responsible for the next festival's programme together with Inari-Saariselkä Travels Ltd. and the local concert organizers.