• YOu have not really experienced the music until you havce bee to The Kaustinen Festival in July of each year. A truly superb, international festival of music with a strong emphasis on the local culture.
• John Cho explains the fame of Värttinä (1996)
• Niles Hokkanen took a look at the Finnish roots in this 1990 Dirty Linen article.
• cdRoots carries CDs by some of the best artists mentioned here.
• If cdRoots doesn't have it, then you might find it at Digelius Music Paradise, a nice record store in Helsinki.
• A page dedicated to the national folk instrument, the kantele
• Gerry Henkel is an American kantele maker with a great page of information about the instrument and the music.
• You won't understand Finland until you understand the national passion for Coffee.
• A Finland Fact Sheet to tell you all the details
• The Global Music Center has information on WOMAD, Etnosoi and other international music events.
  
• Radio Mafia is the "alternative" government radio station, although you will find it to look a lot like Top 40 the world around. They do, however, have some top-notch specialty shows for folk, jazz and international music. (Warning! This is mostly in Finnish, so expect to have to cruise a little to find things)

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