Annual Spring Festival @ The Finnish Kaleva Hall featuring
Heikki Koskinen's Norther Winds & Voices CD release concert Sisällä/Ulkona (Inside/Outside)
Heikki Koskinen, piano; tenor recorder; e-trumpet; kantele; arrangements; Kati Pienimäki Schenker, vocals, kantele; Steve Heckman, tenor sax; Bb & bass clarinet; alto, bass & wooden flutes;
Rent Romus, alto sax, flutes & kantele; Noah Schenker, double bass
"NORTHERN WINDS & VOICES" was created by composer, arranger & multi-instrumentalist
Heikki Koskinen for a project featuring new and old Finnish music, arranged in innovative new ways, exploring the universal connections between immigrants and their motherlands. NW&V brings together five musicians from many past projects and performances utilizing each musician’s unique sound in creating new sonic textures and ways to interpret these songs that are well known to the Finnish community. NW&V takes the listener on a musical ride through a wide variety of styles and approaches, from written arrangements to free flowing extemporaneous group improvisations. Instrumentations range from more conventional vocal, sax, piano & bass ensembles to blending a variety of ethnic and traditional flutes with Finnish kantele & birch bark horn and wordless vocalese.
Doors open at 3:30 pm.
The matinee concert features two sets 4-5:30pm
$15 gen / $10 students & seniors
6:00pm ARTS & CRAFTS by local artists,
VINTAGE ANTIQUES, FOOD TABLES, and SILENT AUCTION benefiting the hall.
Free Admission after 6:00 pm
Food, and Drink will be available!
Cost: $15 gen / $10 students & seniors