25.11.2022
Kaustinen Folk Music Festival opens the pelimanniha in December 10-16.7.2023 for the 56th time. The festival will offer a hand-picked, diverse sampling of Finnish folk music and folk dance talent, as well as a yearly rotation of international...
22.07.2022
Festivaalipuiston tunnelmaa. Kuva Krista Järvelä Kaustisen kansanmusiikkijuhlat järjestetään seuraavan kerran 10.-16.7.2023 jo 56. kerran. Ennakkohintaiset viikkoliput ovat myynnissä rajoitetun ajan 21.-31.7.2022! Viikkolipun hinta on 120 € (+ palvelu- ja...
5.04.2022
Haitaripelimanni Lauri Kotamäen uutta Kotamäki Company -kokoonpanoa on kuvailtu rosoiseksi mutta helläksi rock-yhtyeeksi. Kuva: JP Niemelä Uusia nimiä festivaaliviikolle 11.–17. heinäkuuta: Ida Elina, Kotamäki Company, Maija Kauhanen, Pepe Willberg… Kaustinen...
1.02.2022
The Aapintuva minstrels have always been at the heart of all the festival's festive music. (Photo: Risto Savolainen) The band of the year, Aapintuvan pelimannit, has been the great invisible influence of the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival for four decades. It is the...
16.12.2021
The Kaustinen players at the opening of the festival. On 15.12.2021, the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Committee inscribed the Kaustis Violin Orchestra on UNESCO's List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The Kaustis Violin Orchestra was nominated for the...
15.12.2021
The call for acts for next summer's festival is now open and applications can be submitted until the end of January. A supplementary call will be organised as needed. In Kaustinen, everyone is a minstrel and so all are welcome to apply, be it folk music,...
