The album Kyly by groundbreaking Finnish band Värttinä reached the number one spot of the Transglobal World Music Chart for the month of July 2025.…
Värttinä Tops the Transglobal World Music Chart for July 2025
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Värttinä Surges to the Summit of World Music Charts Europe for July 2025
The album Kyly by Finnish folk stars Värttinä Secured the coveted top position of World Music Charts Europe for the month of July 2025. Kyly…
Electric Jouhikko Virtuoso Pekko Käppi Releases ‘Credo’
Pekko Käppi – Credo (Rockadillo / Nordic Notes, 2023) Pekko Käppi, a musician from Tampere, Finland, is known for performing his partially electrified Finnish-Karelian lyre,…
Jouhikko, the Bowed Lyre of the Baltic
The jouhikko is a traditional Finnish and Estonian musical instrument that belongs to the family of bowed lyres. It is also known by other names…
Artist Profiles: Jouhiorkesteri
Jouhiorkesteri released their debut-CD Nikodemus in May 2008. Jouhiorkesteri – the Horse-Hair Orchestra – made a moving CD, where an old and forgotten instrument has…
Artist Profiles: Pekko Käppi
Composer, producer, researcher and ethnomusicologist Pekko Käppi was born in 1976. He is a jouhikko player from Tampere and a part-time instructor at the Sibelius…
Interview with Uliana Shulepina of Russian Group Ochelie Soroki
Russian group Ochelie Soroki is deeply inspired by ancient traditional Russian songs along with Norse mythology. We interviewed vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Uliana Shulepina to…