Akkapelimannit – Kaustinen (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:00:40 minutes | 691 MB | Genre: Classical, Vocal, Folk
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Akkapelimannit (Female Folk Musicians, akka meaning a mature, married woman) are musicians from Kaustinen, Finland: Minna Järvelä teaches violinists at the Lahti Conservatoire, Jaana Virkkala teaches music to teacher students at the University of Jyväskylä, Kaija Saarikettu is a professor of violin music at the Sibelius Academy, Maria Pulakka and Leenakaisa Sandberg are violinists of the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra and Kreeta-Maria Kentala is a freelancer baroque violinist. Merja Wirkkala has done her life’s work as a soloist in the Finnish National Opera and as a cantor, and Kaarina Nisonen as a pianist and accompanist at the Conservatory of Central Ostrobothnia. All these musicians have spent their childhood in Kaustinen playing music and singing, and each of them had their first big musical experiences in folk music.
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