Nordic Roots Festival: Loituma with Maria Kalaniemi
Hot sounds from cool traditions!
Solo accordion performance featuring selections from Maria's beautiful new album Bellow Poetry.
Maria Kalaniemi
(Finland)
Loituma
(Finland)
Loituma is a young quartet who combine the Finnish vocal tradition with the exquisite sounds of the kantele (Finnish harp).
"ranging from jaunty waltzes to sustained otherworldly chorales that seem to float between centuries." (New York Times)
In a bizarre twist of fate, Loituma have become familiar to an entirely new audience: millions of internet users who have been exposed to an evergrowing number of videos set to the music of Loituma's Ievan Polkka, derived from a progenitor anime video of a girl swinging a leek!
To buy tickets
Call Cedar ticket line 612-338-2674 ext 2
Online sales available at Ticketweb 
Nordic Roots Festival pass
Buy a festival pass and receive entry with priority seating in the front central block of seats for all six concerts of the festival, including this one, for only $119 (plus service fees)! Order now from the Cedar ticket line (612-338-2674 ext 2) or Ticketweb . Passes are limited in availability—first in, first served.
Loituma’s initial incarnation was in the autumn of 1989 as a septet called Jäykkä leipä ("Stiff Bread"), born in the Sibelius Academy’s Folk music department. The original lineup included singers Sanna Kurki-Suonio and Tellu Turkka (...
Maria Kalaniemi (born 1964) is a Finnish accordionist. She was originally classically trained, but has become mostly as folk musician having played this music from childhood, besides her classical music studies, and also at the folk music department of the...
Major Funders
This activity is made possible in part by a grant provided by the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature from the Minnesota arts and cultural heritage fund with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008
