Considering its 80th birthday is next year, Finnish jazz is awfully young at heart. Finnish-American musicians aboard the M/S Andania brought jazz to the country in 1926, according to urban myth, but ...

Longtime Solano County vocal coach Connie Lisec once told The Vacaville Reporter that if a singer wants to know how to sing, “just listen to the music.” When soprano Katherine Whyte stands at center ...

For Diane Jarvi, the kantele is an instrument of change. Jarvi, you see, would like to change our perception of Finland as only a place with chilly weather and colder people. She intends to do that by ...

Never ones to shy away from a colorful collaboration or an outlandish animal, Icelandic songstress Björk and collaborator Sjón are writing a song for an upcoming Finnish children’s film, Moomins and ...