Avanti Summer Sounds. [June-July] Tallberginkatu 1 B 80. FIN-00180 Helsinki. Tel: +358 (0)9 694 00 91 Fax: +358 (0)9 694 2208

Crusell Week. [July] Rauhankatu 10. FI-23500 Uusikaupunki. Tel: +358 (0)2 84515301. Fax +358 (0)2 84515442.
An event dedicated to woodwind instruments the music and its performers.

Espoo International Piano Festival. [November] Espoo Music Festival Association. PO Box 205 (Tapiontori 1 A, 2. krs). FIN-02101 Espoo Tel: +358 9 816 57504, +358 50 385 1623. Tapiontori 1 A, keskustorni 2. krs. FI-02100 Espoo Tel: 358 (0)9 8165 7504. Fax: 358 (0)9 8165 7500.
Piano Week will features leading Finnish and international pianists at the Espoo Cultural Centre, Finnish National Opera and Cello Hall.

Faces Etnofestival. [July] PL 46. 10301 Karjaa. Tel: +358 (0)19 233 763 Fax: +358 (0)19 233 763.
A multicultural festival that has been organised since 1998 has become the largest of its kind in Finland. The festival offers three days of music on stage and on the festival area, art exhibitions, children’s programme, dance, and discussion forums.

Festival of Workers’ Music. [July] Kauppatori 9. FIN-37600 Valkeakoski; Tel: +358 (0)3 5846 233. Fax +358 (0)3 5849 202.
The festival programme features, theme evenings in clubs, jam sessions, theatre productions and film screenings, community singing, open-air dances by the lakeside and the finest music of working men and women.

Häme Castle Children's Festival – Hippalot. [August] Keinusaarentie 13. FI-13200 Hämeenlinna. Tel: +358 (0)3 621 3026. Fax: +358 (0)3 6212811.
Finland's biggest and longest running cultural festival for children there will be première performances, dance, theatre, unique experiences and illusions with masters of artistry from as far afield as Iceland, Poland, France, China and beyond...

Helsinki Festival. [September-October] Mannerheimintie 22-24. FI-00100 Helsinki. Tel: +358 (0)9 6126 5100. Fax: +358(0)-9-6126 5161.
Starting in 1951 Helsinki Festival has provided a full cultural spectrum, ranging from music to modern dance and the most interesting names in theatre, visual art and cinema.

Ilmajoki Music Festival. [June] Ilkantie 17. FI-60800 Ilmajoki. Tel: +358 (0)6 4242 900. Fax: +358 (0)6 424 7171.

Järvenpää Sibelius Festival. [November] Järvenpää Sibelius Festival PO Box 41, FIN-04401 Järvenpää. Tel: +358 9 271 92201.
Järvenpää is best known as the home town of the master composer Jean Sibelius. Sibelius built his log villa Ainola to be "sufficiently far from the temptations of Helsinki". He and his family lived at Ainola for more than fifty years. The spirit of Jean Sibelius is very much alive at Ainola. The museum, maintained to preserve a home-like atmosphere, is open to public from May to the end of September.

Jyväskylä Arts Festival. [July] Asemakatu 6. FIN-40100 Jyväskylä. Tel: +358 (0)14 624 378. Fax: +358 (0)14 214 808.
Jyväskylä Arts Festival (in Central Finland) is the oldest on-going summer festival in Scandinavia, reaching back to the year 1955. During the last years the festival has concentrated on non-verbal theatre, clownery, mime and new circus; underground films; a seminar programme covering a wide range of topical issues such as chaos theories or artificial intelligence; music ranging from classical to techno, and a children's programme.

Kalottjazz & Blues Festival. [July] Keskikatu 22. FI-95400 Tornio. Tel: +358 (0)16 432 424. Fax: +358 (0)16 432 612.
This truly international event takes place in Tornio and Haparanda where Finnish and Swedish cultures quite literally come together. During the event jazz and blues will resound in concert halls, in a jazz marquee, in town squares and in clubs. Uncompromising quality and a cosmopolitan character have been the abiding themes of this festival throughout its history.

Chamber Music by Lake Tuusula. [July-August] PL 41. FIN-04401 Järvenpää. Tel: +358 (0)9 2719 2201. Fax: +358 (0)9 2719 2727.
The programme comprises concerts in the traditional homes of great Finnish artists on the shores of Lake Tuusula in honour of such local masters as Pekka Halonen, Eero Järnefelt and Jean Sibelius.

Full Moon Dance Festival. [July] PL 15. FI-86801 Pyhäsalmi. Tel: +358 (0)8 7697144. Fax: +358 (0)8 7697149.
Finnish commissioned works, some of the most interesting Finnish productions and guest appearances by international performers. The event also involves a broad range of courses, workshops and several unstructured performances.

Kuopio Dance Festival. [June] Kuopio Tanssii ja Soi - Kuopio Dance Festival. Torikatu 18. FIN-70110 Kuopio. Tel: +358 (0)17 3686 200
Founded in 1970. Two major factors contibuted towards the birth of the Kuopio Dance Festival. On the local level there was a need for creating a summer event which would be attractive enough to draw both domestic and international audiences and on national level a desire to join in the spirit of the birth of summer festivals, such a significant feature of the cultural scene in Finland during the 1960´and event today.
Kuopio Dance Festival is the oldest and largest annual dance festival in Nordic countries having contemporary dance, classical ballet and folkore program.

International Children's Theatre Festival. [May] Työväen Näyttämöiden Liitto r.y. Meritullinkatu 33 A. FI-00170 Helsinki. Tel: +358 (0)9 2511 2170. Fax: +358 (0)9 2511 2173.

Helsinki International Film Festival. [October] Helsinki Film Festival Press/Liisa Lehmusto P.O.Box 889 (Mannerheimintie 22-24) FIN-00100 Helsinki Finland, Europe .

Midnight Sun Film Festival. [June] Kansanopistontie 5. FI-99600 Sodankylä, Finland. Tel: +358 16 614 525 Fax: +358 16 614 522.
The world's most enchanting film festival will be twenty years old in summer 2005. Thousands of film enthusiasts will make the journey across the Arctic Circle in June to participate in the celebration of cinematography for five days and nights. They will enjoy the works of the greatest masters of cinema over the decades, the best new films and a brilliant exposition of silent films accompanied by live music.

Spelit at Suupohja. [July] Teuvan kunta/ Spelitoimisto, PL 25, 64701 Teuva. 64700 Teuva. Tel: +358 (0)6 2617111 kunta. Fax: +358 (0)6 2617490.
The largest folk music event in southern Ostrobothnia. More than 1,000 performers will come from seven European countries. Plus Fringe events.

Etnosoi. [October] Helsinki. [contact: Jaana-Maria Jukkara, Global Music Centre, Mikkolantie 17, FIN-00640, Helsinki, Finland. Tel: (+358) 9 752 33 77. Fax: (+358) 9 752 33 76]

Haapavesi Folk. [June] Lallunniementie 2. FI-86600 Haapavesi. Tel: +358 (0)8 459 1284. Fax +358 (0)8 459 1245. International festival of folk music together with jazz, classical, and children's music, dance and theatre, as well as rock and light music.

Kaustinen Folk Music Festival. [July] [contact: Festival Office, PO Box 24, FIN-69601 Kaustinen, Finland. Tel: (+358) 6 8604111. Fax: (+358) 6 8604222]

April Jazz Espoo. [April] Ahertajantie 6 B. FIN-02100 Espoo. Tel: +358 (0)9 455 0003. Fax: +358 (0)9 465 172.
April Jazz Espoo, the most important festival of jazz in the Helsinki area, will bring Finnish and international artists to Tapiola for a five-day celebration. Stars at earlier festivals have included Ray Charles, Joe Zawinul, and Nina Simone. The festival will provide top-class jazz in concert halls, a club atmosphere in restaurants and family entertainment in the E.ON Jazz Marquee. April Jazz Espoo is hosted by the Espoo Big Band Society.

Baltic Jazz. [July] Malmintie 2. FI-25900 Taalintehdas. Tel: +358 (0)400 790 340 Fax: +358 (0)2 466 1633.
The Baltic Jazz festival, during its history, has taken place during the height of summer in the Turku archipelago. During the times of its beginning in 1987, the festival was a small local event, which took place amidst a small group of jazz and archipelago connoisseurs.
Since its modest beginning, Baltic Jazz has grown into a multifaceted and more and more international jazz festival. Nowadays, the festival continuously brings new visitors. Baltic Jazz, in the process of its growth and development, has become one of the most significant jazz festivals of Finland, while preserving the friendly, family atmosphere it had in its beginning. This aspect is something that the arrangers of the festival especially try to preserve.

Imatra Big Band Festival /BB Club. [June - July] Hannu Hokkanen, Matinkatu 1 B, Imatra, 55100, Finland. Tel: 358-5-43 66 400 Fax: 358-5-43 66 401 Imatra Big Band Festival is a jazz festival with special emphasis on the music of large orchestras. Besides diffrent styles of jazz the fstival also provides blues, soul, funk, latin & world beat. During summer 2002 28.6.-6.7. the festival will be organized already 20th time.

Jazz Espoo. [April] Espoo Big Band Society. Ahertajantie 6 B FIN -02100 ESPOO, FINLAND. Tel: +358(0)9 455 0003 Fax: +358(0)9 465 172

Jazz on the Beach. [August] Kauppakatu 23. FI-92100 Raahe. Tel: +358 (0)40 535 1325. Fax: +358 (0)8 26 3215.
Jazz on the Beach is one of Finland's most important festivals of modern jazz. Jazz is performed the intimate setting of a beach concert, in the atmospheric old wooden town and in clubs and concert halls. This festival attracts about 4,000 visitors every year.

Kalott Jazz & Blues Festival. [] Kalottjazz & Blues Festival, Keskikatu 22. FIN-95400 Tornio, Finland.
22 years of Kalottjazz & Blues Festival! The largest jazz celebration in the far north, this truly international event takes place in Tornio and Haparanda where Finnish and Swedish cultures quite literally come together. The festival will invigorate these twin border towns for four days and nights of jazz and blues, with artists from around the globe performing in concert halls, in a jazz marquee, in town squares and in clubs.

Pori Jazz Festival. [July]

Tampere Jazz Happening [November] [festival of new jazz music. This event, which concentrates on modern jazz and its related forms, has the reputation of being the best jazz festival in Finland.]

International Roma Music Festival. [September] Edefeltinbulevardi 21 B 12. FI-06100 Porvoo. Tel: +358 (0)40 704 5795.
Finnish Romany singing and Romany tangos.

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Sata-Häme Soi Accordion Festival. [June-July] Valtakatu 7, PL 33. FIN-39501 Ikaalinen Tel: +358 (0)3 4400 224 Fax: +358(0)3 4501 365
An annual and highly diverse six-day event held every year shortly after midsummer. It provides an opportunity to enjoy the finest accordion music in the most beautiful surroundings. The individual performers and orchestras are always of the highest quality. Famous vocal artists are also featured in the programme. Rest assured that this event is a good cut above nearly all of its competitors in the world of accordion music.

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Air Guitar World Championships. [August] Youth and Culture Centre NUKU, P.O. Box 42, 90015 City of Oulu, FINLAND. Calling address: Hallituskatu 7, 2nd floor Tel: +358 8 5700 500 & +358 8 5700 516 Fax: +358 8 5700 500.
National champions from 13 countries will participate in the World Championship Final. OMVF and the Air Guitar World Championships have granted competition licences to national competition organisers, and the latest additions to the group of organising countries are France and the United Arab Emirates along with the very latest one, Canada, which is also known for its peace-keeping work as well as its maples. Previous members of the Air Guitar network include Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Belgium, the United States, Norway, Austria, Germany and Ireland.