The number of visitors to the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival continued to grow both in terms of tickets sold and total attendance. A total of 16 743 tickets were sold (2015: 15 740) and the total number of visitors was 42 892 (2015: 39 351). The increase in the total number of visitors was mainly due to the continued increase in the number of players at the party. 4,375 players, dancers and singers spent an average of four days at the party. Other performers [...]
The gamekeeper's diary
On Saturday 16.7.2016 the office will start to wind down. At 13.00. The day's special arrangements are taken care of, it's a moment of serene quiet for the first time all week. It's wonderful to be able to concentrate on business in peace. The Slavonic Tractor rehearsals can be heard from the corridor. If I can't make it to the concert, at least I can visit the practice room and get my ears and soul full of Bulgarian female choral singing. I think I went to heaven, because I've always said that [...]
Early blind bird offer!
Weekly ticket for the 2017 celebrations from today until next Friday 22 July 109 € (norm 150 € / 170 €)! Tickets are on sale today, Saturday 16 July, at the gates and at the Music High School ticket office, and afterwards until Friday 22 July also in the Ticket Office's online shop. Kaustinen is celebrating, celebrate with us!
Kaustinen has many reasons to celebrate in 2017
This year's Kaustinen Folk Music Festival is just coming to an end, but we are already looking to the future. There are many reasons to celebrate in 2017. The Kaustinen Folk Music Festival is celebrating its 50th year and Finland is also celebrating its 100th birthday. The 2017 festival will be celebrated for a full seven days, with Sunday also being a full day of events at the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival. As Finland celebrates its 100th anniversary, the theme of the Folk Music Festival is 'Celebrations'. Throughout the centuries, [...]
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I lived here for three years, and yet only now do I see the moment in the year when Kaustinen really comes alive. Three days of festivals behind us now (for me) and still this one and tomorrow to go. But at this point, I have to gloat! I never knew how much of a community, originality and multicultural spirit we have here! Almost every corner of the whole municipality has been taken [...]
Kaustinen Folk Music Festival intensifies the atmosphere
The Kaustinen Folk Music Festival is making solid progress towards the weekend. On Friday and Saturday, the programme will feature plenty of dancing and dancing, international guests and Finnish frontline artists such as Anssi Kela, who is sure to wow Kaustinen with his stories and convincing stage presence. The soul of music from Madagascar The Saturday evening at the Keskipohjanmaa arena will end with a new acquaintance for the Kaustinen festival audience, namely the Madagascan Kilema. At the heart of the band playing energetic world music is singer-songwriter Kilema, ”the soul of Madagascar”, [...]
The Folk Music Festival programme will include both Kainuuans and the uninitiated
Folk music and folk dance will be played in Kaustinen, but there will be other activities to inspire visitors. On Saturday 16 July, the Tour de Vaivaisukot event will combine cultural tourism and cycling, and on the same day you can also experience a parade of old cars and other vehicles in the centre of Kaustinen, when the Kaustinen Mobilists and Harley Davidson Club Finland will join forces in a parade at Kaustinen Church Village at 13.30. The troublemakers are [...]
Suvi Oskala is the winner of the Traditional Ark Celebration Marching Contest
The festive marching competition organised by Perinnearkku ry culminated today, Wednesday 13.7. in the final in Kaustinen. The aim of the competition was to celebrate the ongoing tenth anniversary of Perinnearkku ry and to find new marching compositions in the style of the peliman. The prizes of €800, €500 and €150 were awarded as follows: Suvi Oskala with the composition "Perinnearkku Festlamarssi" Second prize €500: Silja Kuoppala with the composition March from the Sea Third prize.
Champions and racers in Kaustinen - and Kekkonen in imaginary landscapes
The Kaustinen Folk Music Festival continues apace. With 27 venues offering a national and international programme, the music and dancing goes on from dawn till dusk. Thursday sees the premiere of the traditional Kaustinen cavalcade. This time the theme is President Kekkonen's visit to Kaustinen in 1974, when he inaugurated the Pelimannital. ”The play is mostly on an imaginative level,” says director Anna-Kaisa Kettunen. ”A Kaustisian host and hostess wonder what it would be like [...]
Nothing else matters
I know many people from Kausti who have been to festivals all 49 times or all their lives, and for whom getting into the atmosphere does not seem to be a relevant issue. Watching the regulars at the festival, both players and audience, I have sensed the same. You don't get into the mood - it starts when you pick up the games and start playing and listening. So it's embarrassing that only a dozen years [...]