Hooray for folkies!
Hooray for folkies who write Music Banter journals!
Hooray for Finnish people who write Music Banter journals!
I spent a year in Rovaniemi, one week
. Aside from being cold and dark there's a lot of Santa impersonators & reindeer way up north of the Arctic Circle. I visited the Arctic Indigenous Peoples Office at University of Lapland and attended an international conference of indigenous people from all over the world. There were indigenous tribal members from Iceland, Siberia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Alaska, the Southwest, Northeastern & Northwestern USA, New Zealand, Samoa and the Philippines. That was some pow-wow.
I'm a big fan of the Scandinavian music scene but all Americans hear is mostly Swedish music and Icelandic music (thanks to international popularity of Bjork & Sigur Rós). All I've ever heard about Finland music is related to death metal bands. Music Banter is in dire need of a music correspondent from Finland to educate us on Finnish music.