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Netta Skog
Netta Skog (b. 1989–1990) is a Finnish accordionist and singer. She plays the button accordion, both acoustic and digital. Skog won Finland's annual ( 'Golden Accordion') contest in 2006, aged 16, making her its youngest winner at the time. She also won the gold medal in the 2015 International Digital Accordion competition of the Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes. She was chosen as the 2024 accordionist of the year (''Vuoden Harmonikkataiteilija'') by the Finnish Accordion Association. Although she does also play traditional accordion music such as tango and schlager, and reached the 2013 final of the Tangomarkkinat festival competition, Skog is especially known for performing music from genres not traditionally associated with the accordion, such as heavy metal, film scores, and classical music. For example, in the Kultainen Harmonikka contest she performed Nightwish's "Dead to the World" and the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest winner " Wild Dances". She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folk Metal
Folk metal is a fusion genre of heavy metal music and traditional folk music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. It is characterised by the widespread use of folk instruments and, to a lesser extent, traditional singing styles (for example, Dutch Heidevolk, Danish Sylvatica and Spanish Stone of Erech). It also sometimes features soft instrumentation influenced by folk rock. The earliest folk metal bands were Skyclad (band), Skyclad from England and Cruachan (band), Cruachan from Ireland. Skyclad's debut album ''The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth'' was released in 1991 and would be considered a thrash metal album with some folk influences, unlike Cruachan’s early work which embraced the folk element as a defining part of their sound. It was not until 1994 and 1995 that other early contributors in the genre began to emerge from different regions of Europe and beyond. Among these early groups, the German band Subway to Sally spearheaded a different regional variation that over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tangomarkkinat
The Tangomarkkinat is the world's oldest Finnish tango, tango festival. It is held early every July in Seinäjoki, Finland. As well as competitions to find the country's best tango singers, composers, and dancers, the festival features public dancing to live music provided by the best Finnish entertainers. Music for public dancing is not restricted to tango: it includes all the dance rhythms popular in Finland: but tango content must, according to the rules, be at least 40%. History The festival had its origins in a Finnish sauna. Lasse Lintala, the director of the Ilmajoki Music Festival and his wife were in the sauna with the director of the MTV3 TV channel Tauno Äijälä and his wife Katja. Lintala was hoping to get the festival on TV. Äijälä suggested incorporating tango into the festival and perhaps a musical based on tango singer Olavi Virta. The idea was developed for a couple of years, but Ilmajoki was not interested. Lintala travelled to Helsinki to tell Äijälä the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
