12.07.2025
The dream of more than 200 musicians, singers and dancers from Hämälä came true when they performed their big provincial concert at the main arena in Kaustinen on Friday. The festival's regional theme Häme was exceptionally broad this year, covering the old Hämälä regions...
11.07.2025
The Kaustinen Folk Music Festival is the start of a dream festival weekend. Already from the beginning of the week there have been a lot of people around. The weather forecast is the best: sunshine and warmth, with even high temperatures on Saturday....
10.07.2025
In the past, restaurant services in the festival area have been outsourced. Now all cafés, takeaways, catering, the festival restaurant and the soup kitchen are owned by the festival and managed by Pro Kaustinen ry. The kitchen at the primary school has a capacity of 1,000...
9.07.2025
The Folkskandia event brings together more than 550 young people to play together during the festival week in Kaustinen. The Kaustis-based children and youth Keyboard Players have received guests from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia and Shetland. They have a habit of exchanging ideas and...
8.07.2025
Konsta Jylhä's compositions have never been heard in the Konsta Jylhä competition, and hardly anywhere else, with so many different instruments, genres and combinations as in this year's competition at the beginning of the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival week....
