Concerts
Old Fashioned Brass Band Concert
When: Sunday, June 27, 2:30 pm
Where: Fogelbo, 8740 SW Oleson Road, Portland, 97223
Cost: $5 per person
Enjoy an afternoon concert by Sigtuna, the Swedish eight piece brass band, and the German inspired Encore Brass Band of Portland, at historic Fogelbo.
Bring your own lunch, drinks, lawn chairs and blankets. Coffee and punch provided. Park in the SHF parking lot next door.
Get a Taste of Midsummer Talent at Friday Concert
When: Friday, June 25, 2010, 7:30 pm
Where: Tabor Space Commons, 5441 SE Belmont St., Portland (www.taborspace.org)
All ages are welcome. Adults $15, children uner 12 free. Pay at the door.
The Karelian Folk Music Ensemble, traditional musicians from Russian Karelia, will be joined by Pekka & Perttu, accordianists from Finland, for a shared concert the night before the Portland Scanidinavian Midsummer Festival.
The Karelian Folk Music Ensemble is a lively and expressive duo from the Russian Republic of Karelia. Karelia, land of forests and lakes, is on both sides of the Russian/Finnish border and is the birthplace of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala.
Pekka Pentikäinen is a Finnish accordianist, composer, teacher and graduate of the Sibelius Music Academy. He has performed in his home country, Europe, the U.S., Canada and Australia. Perttu Paappanen has been working as a theater musician, a solo artist and teacher.
Johansson och det starka bandet VENUE CHANGE DUE TO WEATHER!
When: May 21, 7:00 pm, West Hills Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 8470 SW Oleson Road, Portland, OR
Cost: $10 Admission, children under 12 are FREE (Portland concert)
The band (four musicians guitar, harmonica, bass, banjo, slide) mixes traditional Swedish/American folkmusic with a singer songer attitude. With three albums released in Sweden, the latest is “Amerikat.” It is a theme-album, containing 20 songs about the young emigrant Gustav Johansson from Sweden. They will perform the album acoustically with a bit of amplified music that connects Swedish and American history and culture.
Check them out on youtube, search "JDSB" or "Johansson och det starka bandet." Also see www.johanssonochdetstarkabandet.nu
Rave reviews from Washington!
"They are GREAT!," says Kristine Leander, Executive Director of the Swedish Cultural Center in Seattle. "The concert-goers at the club on Friday agreed that this was the best concert they’d heard in recent years. The four musicians are very talented and swap instruments around from one song to the next. They also sing beautiful harmony. The genre is sort of ‘rock ‘n roll folk” and many in the audience discovered that their hands were clapping and their feet were tapping during the music. Born-and-raised Swedes got misty-eyed over some of the songs."
Helsinki Academic Male Choir KYL
For you Finns its - Kauppakorkeakoulun Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat, the male choir of the Student Union of Helsinki School of Economics. The choir is on a West Coast tour and it is a rare opportunity to experience the exquisite beauty of 40 Finnish voices offering traditional male choir music, as well as modern and light music.
When: March 31, 2010, 7:30 pm
Where: Catlin Gabel Performing Arts Center
Cost: $17 SHF and Finlandia Foundation members, $ 10 Students, $20 non-members
Call SHFat (503) 977-0275 for tickets
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