Värttinä: The Village Awaits the New Moon
Vartinna (2000) (credit: Vartinna.com)
After meeting as members of a Finnish youth group and then studying at Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy folk music department, these women came together as Värttinä in the 1980s. While they championed and revived "the unique polyphonic music of the Finno-Ugric people of Karelia, a region of eastern Finland extending into Russia" [...]
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