In Finland, music is deeply ingrained in society. It's a natural part of daily culture, and the vocal tradition is especially strong. We welcome to the NPR studios one of the great male choirs from ...

How did a country of a million sad songs finally emerge as the Eurovision winner thanks to Lordi? What happened in Finnish popular music at the turn of the last century and is there something that ...

Musicians donate royalties from each streaming playback of the relaxing ambient music to UNICEF in support of children ...

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Finland's most famous art music composer Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) gradually ceased writing new music at the end of the 1920s. At the same time, radio broadcasts became more common in Europe. In ...

Finland is pretty hot at the moment, musically speaking. Where nonspecialists once began and ended their lists of great Finnish composers with Sibelius, now Einojuhani Rautavaara, Magnus Lindberg and ...

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Finland's hippest music festival gets underway in Helsinki this week, with dozens of acts and tens of thousands of spectators arriving for the annual extravaganza that is Flow Festival. The breadth of ...

Time to stop pining for a third Bill & Ted movie — the next great heavy metal comedy has arrived! Heavy Trip follows a fictional Finnish metal band, Impaled Rektum, as they make a (hilariously) ...

A new study examined whether an extended music education had an impact on pupils' experienced satisfaction with the school. Nearly a thousand pupils at ten Finnish schools with extended music classes ...