Dates:
- Tue, 11 Aug 2026, 16:00–18:00
Presenting the power of the runo song from along a decades long path with Liisa Matveinen and Tellu Turkka, and Mikko H. Haapoja’s electroacoustic bowed lyre landscapes.
16.00 | Liisa Matveinen & Tellu Turkka: ‘Words will not be forgotten!’ – 30th anniversary tour 2026
Master folk singer Liisa Matveinen and composer Tellu Turkka are celebrating their long journey together. It is time to highlight the best parts of their 30-year journey, the most touching stories, the funniest incidents on tours and the most powerful poems.
During these decades, Liisa and Tellu have researched and composed a huge number of old poems by, among others, Mateli Kuivalatar and Iro Sissotar and many other female runo-singers, whose verbal heritage does not age. And even after all these years Liisa and Tellu's voices still merge together harmoniously.
The duo not only composes but arranges old runo songs as well. As instruments on stage, they play kantele, the Swedish Moraharp and the Udu drum.
To celebrate their thirty-year career together, the duo organises a jubilee tour in 2026. Two singers from the Suden aika quartet, Katariina Airas and Karoliina Kantelinen, join them in the project. The tour is produced by Minsku Tammela.
Liisa Matveinen – vocals, kantele
Tellu Turkka – vocals, mora harp, udu
Katariina Airas – vocals, mora harp, flutes
Karoliina Kantelinen – vocals, kantele
17.15 | Mikko H. Haapoja: Unheard Landscapes
Mikko H. Haapoja, releasing his second solo album at the Etno-Espa 2026 festival, makes new and distinctive electroacoustic music lead by the bass bowed lyre (‘jouhikko’). On Haapoja's upcoming album, multilayered textures of bowed lyre...
Cost: Free
Categories: Musiikki, Espan lava, Suomi, Ruotsi, Englanti, son mexicano
More information: http://www.espanlava.fi/en/events/event/C58D69757933DFF3B8631A98FC67EB1C/Liisa_Matveinen_Tellu_Turkka_Mikko_H_Haapoja
Source: Event information supplied by City of Helsinki Linked Events.
