As the end of the year approaches, many people still have unused Smartum, ePassport or Edenred cultural benefits that expire at the end of the year and cannot be redeemed. If Kaustinen festivals are part of your summer anyway, or you know that “at least one day...
Kaustinen Folk Music Festival has been selected as Festival of the Year 2025 at the Industry Awards Gala held at Tampere Hall on Friday 26 September. The gala celebrated the music industry's most outstanding artists and achievements as part of the Music x Media event. The award...
Join us in making the biggest folk music festival in the Nordic countries! The Kaustinen Folk Music Festival is the leading folk music festival in the Nordic Region and one of the most important events in Europe. Every year, thousands of visitors, hundreds of performers and a warm and...
Kaustinen Folk Music Festival has been nominated in the Festival of the Year category of the Industry Awards organised by Music X Media. The nomination is a significant recognition for one of the largest folk music and dance festivals in Finland and Northern Europe....
Kaustinen Folk Music Festival, the largest folk music event in the Nordic countries, has once again been a success. Total attendance for the festival week was 54 371. A total of 20 461 tickets were sold in advance, online or at the gates. The organiser is quite satisfied with the figures -...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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....