Paleface, Timo Rautiainen, Topi Saha, Johanna Försti and Aili Järvelä will create new folk songs on Yle Radio 1's Etnoilla from 9.6 June.
Folk Music Institute A little folk song -project, a group of the country's leading songwriters are exploring what kind of songs will be created in 2015, using traditional folk songs as the starting point for the creative process and songwriters from today's popular genres as the authors. What are the starting points for today's folk song, and is today's folk song even a possible concept?
Musical answers and stories of how they were arrived at will be heard A little folk song -radio series on Yle Radio 1's Etnoilla on four consecutive Tuesdays in June, starting 9.6. and the crowning event of the project. A little folk song -at the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival on Wednesday 8.7., as part of this year's folk song theme.
Each episode of the series features a guest songwriter, professor emeritus of folk music, folk song expert Heikki Laitisen dives into the depths of a folk song and returns to the surface at the end of the episode with his catch, a new song he wrote during spring 2015. The results and their relationship to the starting point are as varied as the participants.
They include Timo Rautiainen, ”a great folk favourite from the top of the heavier Finnish rock scene, made famous by the UMK competition, who has experienced ”folk music glory". Aili Järvelä, which has absorbed the Kaustisian pelican tradition in its mother's milk, including the use of Roma music in its songs by our top rapper Paleface and a singer-songwriter working as a pair Topi Saha and rhythm music singer-songwriter Johanna Försti, both of whom also have strong roots in folk music.
The Kaustinen concert will be arranged and conducted by Ville Ojanen, and the band is made up of some of the country's top professional folk musicians. The concert will also be radioed and broadcast on Yle Radio 1 at a later date.
The series, produced by the Folk Music Institute for Yle Radio 1, is edited by the Folk Music Institute's Head of Publications and Kantele-editor-in-chief of the magazine Jimmy Träskelin. The project is also funded by the Kone Foundation and Pro Kaustinen ry, the organiser of the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival.
More information:
Lauri Oino, Producer, Folk Music Institute, 050-350 4600, lauri.oino@kaustinen.fi
Elina Roms, Producer, Yle, 040-860 3869, elina.roms@yle.fi