Get ready to experience the happiest days of summer in Kaustinen! Tickets will go on sale in advance on Monday 9.12.2024. Take advantage of your cultural knowledge and get your tickets now! Day ticket 35 € Weekly ticket 150 € You can also pay for your tickets with the following cultural benefits:...
Competition period extended! You can participate until 28.2.2025. Pick up your knitting needles and take part in a warm-hearted woolen sock competition that combines music and craft traditions! Design and create a Kaustinen Folk Music Festival themed woollen sock,...
A festive atmosphere and the warmth of merino wool! High quality, soft and warm merino wool to keep winter at bay. A festive atmosphere every day. Ville's hat is on sale at Kaustinen Folk Music Festival's online shop at https://kauppa.kaustinen.net/product/villen-pipo/ ,...
The European Folk Network conference in Kaustinen on 24-25 September is expected to bring together dozens of folk music and folk dance promoters, organisers and other actors from the most important European organisations in the field. The conference is the fifth in a row...
The July week of folk music was a success and more. The Kaustinen Folk Music Festival, voted Festival of the Year, had the second best overall attendance, second only to the 50th anniversary event. Total attendance was...
Do you know what this long list below is? It's a concert of hundreds of performers from southern Ostrobothnia. Festival of the Year Kaustinen Folk Music Festival proudly presents this year's regional theme with the main concert of South Ostrobothnia on Saturday from 13:00 at KPO Arena....
The eagerly awaited Miljoonasade and Piirpauke (photo) will today pave the way for the darkening night of the weekend at the KPO arena. Friday night will be crowned by Malian guitarist-singer Samba Touré. He has been developing his own blues style since the '90s and has become a...
This week, the Folk Music Festival even got married in Kaustinen church in the spirit of the festival. On the main stage at the KPO Arena on Thursday and Friday, you can see Club for Five, Ánnámáret, Antti Paalanen, Miljoonasade and Piirpauke. The Executive Director of Pro Kaustinen ry...
In recent years, Kaustinen Festival Week has become the "Finnish arena" for intangible cultural heritage, a grassroots meeting place for folk music enthusiasts and professionals, but also for foreign researchers and students. Programme Director Anne-Mari Hakamäki...
Cantele artist Jenni Venäläinen has just won the Konsta Jylhä competition at the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival. The theme of the national competition was improvisation and it was aimed at solo performers with acoustic instruments. Six...