Kalevala
Finnish scholar, Elias Lönnrot, spent many years recording the songs of the old rune singers, combining them into a work he called Kalevala. It became the National Epic of Finland and played a significant role, along with the music of Sibelius and the paintings by Gallen-Kallela and other artist, in the Finnish search for identity and independence. Kalevala has been translated into many languages in verse and prose, but this is the first time, since 1904, that the complete runic Kalevala has been translated to English by Kaarina Brooks, faithfully following the sing-song version of kalevala-metre. In doing so, it retains the enchanting poesy of the original Finnish Kalevala.
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Ballad of Olli Kinkkonen
Performed by Karl Sundquist and Jill Burkes at the launch of Mark Munger's final book in his trilogy about Finnish Immigrants: "Kotimaa: Homeland"
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Join us on this tour of the Finnish Labour Temple from the bottom to the top with Ivanka and Marc Metsaranta.
Ann Marie Maillette and Honeypaw
Marie Maillette (nee Annamary Oja) and Bill Smeltzer
Sauna Song (Finnish Schottische) I play the autoharp and sing in Finnish. Bill created a “virtual duet” by playing my video, and recording himself accompanying me on a Ukulele. His “sound studio” is, approp...
