The VirtuaaliKaustinen festival ended on Sunday, but the material on the website Kaustinen2020.net is available until the end of July. All videos, including the evening concerts, and other programmes can be viewed there free of charge.
The site was visited more than 123 000 times between 13-18 July. The most popular content was the game programme with 45 new videos each day. Over 6 days, the programme was watched almost 10 000 times in Finland and 50 other countries - most in the USA and Japan, least in Sweden and Tyskland.
Pro Kaustinen decided to organise the festival online so that it resembles the normal one as closely as possible.
- Jag tror att i sommar kommer Kaustinen att stå stand apart from other festivals as ett stort och kostnadsfritt evenemang, säger Ira Korkala, chairman of Pro Kautinen ry.
Chief Executive Officer Valtteri Valo har räknat att det tar tar 23 timmar, 2 minuter och 5 sekunder att gå igenom alla spelmansvideor. The total length of all the video material is 46 hours 47 minutes.
- It was the spelmännen who made the festival happen! They filmed and produced 350 new videos themselves. The videos will be available on the KaustinenFMF channel on YouTube even after July, says Valtteri Valo.
Kaustinen Folk Music Festival will be held for the next time in the festival park for a year 12.-18.7.2021