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If there is a little Elvis in everyone, then there's a WHOLE LOTTA Elvis in Teppo Valimaki.
A brilliant traditional musician with an original approach, he plays with skill, with attitude, and with a wit that cuts through any language barrier. I first met Teppo at a week-long accordion festival in 1993, and have been a fan ever since.(Please note that accordions are about the hardest thing in the world to get sounding really good in Real Audio... but his performance is so good, I thought you could live with the lower technical standard inherent in streamed net audio.) |
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Errki Vihinen is from the town of Palokka. I met him by chance while I was wandering around the festival, and heard something I had surprisingly not heard before in Finnish music, a harmonica. He allowed me to record him one morning. "Osmo's Son's Polka" is one of his own tunes.
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 photo courtesy of Folk Music Institute |
All the sounds on this page are exclusive to RootsWorld, recorded by us in July of 1998 in Kaustinen, Finland. The songs are all traditional unless noted, and all are used with the express permission of the performers and composers.
Photos are by Cliff Furnald or AkiPhoto of Finland.
Return to: Kaustinen '98, Finland
