Author: Hans Kreutzer

Finland has been the heart and soul of one of the great subgenres of rock – heavy metal. They have been inspiring musicians to include this style of

It’s good to see so people of Jakobstad found the music cafe After Eight in the Finnish Jakobstad, last Wednesday. Last year it was not always that crowded,

A special day for the ‘little’ town of Jakobstad, which is named in Finnish: Pietarsaari. Besides the big excitement during the Jakobsdager is it normally not such a

At the beach, Pariisin Kevät started the day with easily sounded music. Everyone with a headache could come to their strength again for the last day of Ruisrock.  In

The second day of Ruisrock started slowly. The boat that would have brought us to the festival area was packed, so we had to wait until the next

The sun did win from the rain, it was a sunny musically day after all. The Ruisrock festival in Turku is the oldest festival of Finland and is held

The third day of Provinssi Rock started a bit late for some. Three days of music is quite a lot, but nevertheless many thousands of visitors joined the

Provinssi Rock, the second day, started quietly with singer-songwriter music from Yona. The Amphitheatre was filled to the top, the very easygoing happy music was perfect to start

3 Days of a festival in the province, it will be the baptizing of your reporter into Finnish festival. One of the bigger festivals is Provinssi Rock, before

Karina was not jus a band they recently were nominated for the Hyundai Nordic Music Prize. Their debut album ’Karina’ was self-produced and got very good critics. Some