October 1, 2014 at 2:05 p.m.
Finnish fiddlers coming to Hext Theatre
Finnish fiddlers coming to Hext Theatre
The concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Hext Theatre. Tickets are $15.
The workshop will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at ArtStart.
Workshop tickets are $30 for adults and $20 for those 18 and under. Workshop tickets are also good for the concert.
Cousins Arto and Antti Järvelä are members of the famous Järvelä music family of Kaustinen, Finland. With centuries of family tradition behind them, they are touring the U.S. playing music from their first album together, "Os fera liluli."
According to a press release announcing the performance, Järvelä fiddlers have been fiddling in the front line of weddings in Ostrobothnia (on the eastern shore of the Gulf of Bothnia, the northernmost arm of the Baltic Sea) for generations, as far back as Juho Järvelä (1794-1837). A long heritage also comes from grandma Martta's (born Kentala) side. The first non-Järvelä fiddler was Juho Wirkkala, who had to pay a fine of five Finnish marks for the crime of playing fiddle in a dance one Sunday evening in 1726.
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