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Raoul Björkenheim's 40-year artist celebration tour, which started in spring 2022, will continue this fall. The guitarist's band eCsTaSy will give concerts in four more locations: Riihimäki, Salo, Jyväskylä and Vaasa on November 9–12.
The 41st Tampere Jazz Happening starts today, on Thursday the 3rd of November 2022. This year 25 ensembles and more than 130 musicians will perform at the festival altogether.
Oulu Sinfonia and UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra start a concert collaboration in 2022.
The festival is held for the 35th time.
In the fall season 2023, Finnish Jazz Federation produces two tours as inhouse productions, on September 11–24, 2023 and October 9–22, 2023, and supports the production costs of two externally produced tours. The call is also out for artists to perform at the Jazz-Espa concert series in Helsinki in July–August 2023! The application opens on October 10, and closes on November 7, 2022.
The exhilarating French GRIO orchestra will perform on Thursday 3 November at Oulainen Music Week and on Sunday 6 November on the main stage of Tampere Jazz Happening.
The popular Flame Jazz Cruise takes music lovers to the waves of the Baltic Sea for the 20th time.
The board of Music Archive Finland has awarded the 39th Finnish Jazz Legend Prize saxophonist Pertti "Pepa" Päivinen and the 40th Prize to saxophonist Jorma Tapio.
ELMA.live, a digital sustainability platform tailored specifically for the live music sector, was launched in September. Elma is based on the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and to celebrate the United Nations Day, October 24, Elma releases a crash course learning set. The project is administered by Finnish Jazz Federation and steered by KEMUT network.
Jazz Finland, Sibelius Academy Jazz Music Department at Uniarts Helsinki, UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra and the Finnish Musicians’ Union launched a new international jazz residency program in August 2021. The program is happy to feature Argentinian-born pianist, composer and band leader Guillermo Klein as the next artist-in-residence from October 23rd until November 13th.
