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Pori Jazz echoes in Kirjurinluoto for the 54th time

Pori Jazz is spreaded around Kirjurinluoto for the 54th time on July 12th to 20th. In addition to the festival area, there are many high-quality concerts for free at the Jazz Park. The programme of the festival include international and Finnish artist of jazz, soul and funk.


Kalottjazz & Blues brings top-quality live music to Tornio

Kalottjazz & Blues festival offers high quality music for all jazz and blues fans at the Aine Art Museum’s park area, near the Tornio river, under the midnight sun. You can enjoy jazz and blues on multiple stages, and there’s a lot to see and experience for the entire family!


Puistoblues is held in Järvenpää on June 26th to 30th.

The biggest festival organized entirely by volunteers is held 42th time this year. The festival is held in Järvenpää a week after midsummer celebrations, on June 26th to 30th. This year there are traditional blues festivities and some new changes.



Nordic jazz organizations on the spotlight

Nordic Jazz Network has worked already for 20 years to collaborate and make Nordic jazz heard all over Nordic countries and even further. The network’s main tool is an annual Nordic Jazz Comets showcase event which offers young jazz bands a way abroad. The network members are five Nordic jazz organizations: Jazz Finland, Jazz Danmark, Norsk jazzforum, Svensk jazz and FÌH Music School.





Lauri Kadalipp Social Jazz featured in Heimojazz band exchange

The core of the co-operation between the Finnish and Estonian jazz organizations has been Heimojazz, a band exchange project which turns already 10 years today. Jere Haakana Varjosto visited Tallinn and Tarto during their Jazz Finland tour in early May, and their counterpart Lauri Kadalipp Social Jazz, will perform at Juttutupa's Rytmihäiriö club on Wednesday, May 22.  


Berghäll Triality on mini tour

Berghäll Triality brings the question of climate on stage on their tour of five concerts on 21th to 26th May. The programme of the tour consists of composition series The Arctic, that was released as an album in June 2018. In addition to that, at Kerava Jazz Festival Berghäll Triality presents the premiere of to-be-released series The Antarctic. The tour is a sequel to the album release tour that started last autumn.