Baltic Jazz
The Baltic Jazz festival is one of the summer's highlights in the archipelago of Turku, Finland. It started in 1987 when Jazz-music enthusiasts in the village Dalsbruk (fin. Taalintehdas) arranged a local festival.[1] By the mid-2010s the festival had grown to be one of the biggest jazz festivals in Finland.[2] It takes place two weeks after midsummer, usually the second weekend in July.[3]
Reception
[edit]Lauri Karvonen of Helsingin Sanomat wrote in the early 1990s that the atmosphere of the Baltic Jazz event resembled that of the early years of Pori Jazz, and that despite minimal marketing it had grown into not only a significant jazz event but also the most important tourism event for the small locality — attracting, for example, around 6,000 festival visitors in 1992. While Pori Jazz had at that time begun courting the rock generation with acts such as Ringo Starr, Karvonen praised Baltic Jazz for sticking to Finnish jazz, emphasizing traditional swing and Dixieland.[4][5]
Artists who have performed at Baltic Jazz
[edit]- Antti Sarpila[6]
- Bo Kaspers Orkester 2013[7]
- Gunhild Carling & The Carling Family 2012[6]
- Aziza Mustafa Zadeh 1990[5]
- The Real Group[8]
- Leroy Jones 2015[9]
- Swedish Swing Society 2015[9]
- Johanna Iivanainen
- Aili Ikonen 2015[9]
- Pentti Lasanen
- Timo Lassy 2015[9]
- huumoriryhmä Kaj
- Robin Packalen
- Redrama
- Pepe Ahlqvist
- Satin Circus
- Poets of the Fall
- Club for Five
- Edu Kettunen
- Remu & Hurriganes 2013[10]
- Erja Lyytinen 2013[10]
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References
[edit]- ↑ "Welcome to Dalsbruk on Kimito Island!".
- ↑ Johansson, Icedor (11 July 2013). "Baltic Jazz Festival med sommarkänslor | Orkesterjournalen" (in Swedish). Retrieved 17 November 2025.
- ↑ "Baltic Jazz, Taalintehdas". Finland Festivals. Retrieved 17 November 2025.
- ↑ "Idealistien harrastuksesta lupaavaksi jazzvaihtoehdoksi. Baltic Jazz kompensoi suurten jazzfestivaalien vesittymistä".
- 1 2 "Baltic Jazzin odotettu muodonmuutos. Letkeähenkisestä turistijuhlasta on hyvän yleisömenestyksen myötä kasvamassa kunnianhimoinen ja varteenotettava jazz-tapahtuma".
- 1 2 "Taalintehtaalla juhlittiin triplasti". jazzrytmit.com (in Finnish). 8 July 2012. Archived from the original on 21 September 2017.
- ↑ Engström, Nora (27 August 2013). "Bo Kaspers orkester och Eva Dahlgren lockade i Åbo". Svenska Yle (in Finnish). Retrieved 26 July 2026.
- ↑ Karvonen, Lauri (10 July 1995). "Bebop rantautui Taalintehtaalle. Vokalistit hallitsivat yhdeksänsiä Baltic Jazz -festivaaleja". Helsingin Sanomat: 24.
- 1 2 3 4 Östvall, Runo (8 July 2015). "Den enda klassiska jazzfestivalen i Finland". Jazzrytmit. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
- 1 2 Stolpe, Maud (2 May 2013). "Baltic Jazz i ny skepnad". Svenska Yle. Retrieved 31 December 2022.