{"id":2615,"date":"2016-02-04T09:50:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T09:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=2615"},"modified":"2016-02-19T12:07:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T12:07:36","slug":"varttina-concert-with-the-finnish-folk-music-band","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/varttina-concert-with-the-finnish-folk-music-band\/","title":{"rendered":"V\u00c4RTTIN\u00c4 \u2013 Concert with the Finnish Folk music band"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"button\"href=\"https:\/\/tix.is\/en\/event\/2508\/varttina\/\">BUY A TICKET<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>V\u00c4RTTIN\u00c4 \u2013 Concert with the Finnish Folk music band in The Nordic House 29th of February at 19.30 o\u2019clock.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>V\u00e4rttin\u00e4, Finland&#8217;s world music ambassadors, started as a project by Sari and Mari Kaasinen in 1983 in the village of R\u00e4\u00e4kkyl\u00e4, in North Karelia, the eastern region of Finland. Since then, they have toured all around the world for over three decades, with exciting projects such as composing the music for The Lord of The Rings musical together with A.R.Rahman. Rock in Rio for a crowd of 200 000. The vocalists sing in the Karelian dialect of the Finnish language.<\/p>\n<p>Their newest album &#8216;Viena&#8217;, which currently is nr. 4 on the World Music Charts Europe, is a tribute to V\u00e4rttin\u00e4\u2019s Viena Karelian musical roots. The group\u2019s sound is more acoustic than it has been for decades, and the vocals combined with the violin, accordion and string instrument trio creates a harmonious tapestry that is both tender and rich.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The band<\/strong> consists of three lead female vocalists supported by three acoustic musicians, they are:<br \/>\nMari Kaasinen &#8211; vocals<br \/>\nSusan Aho \u2013 vocals<br \/>\nKaroliina Kantelinen \u2013 vocals<br \/>\nMatti Kallio \u2013 accordion, flutes<br \/>\nLassi Logr\u00e9n \u2013 violin, jouhikko (bowed lyre), nyckelharpa (keyed fiddle)<br \/>\nMatti Laitinen \u2013 string instruments<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tickets are sold on <a href=\"http:\/\/tix.is\">tix.is<\/a> and in The Nordic House entrance. Price: 3000 ISK.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Make a night of it; Restaurant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aalto.is\/\">AALTO Bistro<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUY A TICKET V\u00c4RTTIN\u00c4 \u2013 Concert with the Finnish Folk music band in The Nordic House 29th of February at 19.30 o\u2019clock.\u00a0 V\u00e4rttin\u00e4, Finland&#8217;s world music ambassadors, started as a project by Sari and Mari Kaasinen in 1983 in the village of R\u00e4\u00e4kkyl\u00e4, in North Karelia, the eastern region of Finland. Since then, they have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2616,"template":"","event-categories":[5,60,8],"class_list":["post-2615","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-categories-concert","event-categories-all-events","event-categories-literature","no-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/2615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}