Coronation polska - Quarantine folk music from Finland

coronation polska

Finnish folk music and folk dance professionals joined forces and made a great polska tune to give you hope, energy and happiness to survive of what is left of coronavirus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAlWPmPPujg

In total of 42 Finland's folk scene professional artists participated in this communal project. This polska tune was danced and playd all around Finland: In the middle of snow and ice in Lapland, fields of Ostrobothnia, North-Carelia wilderness and without forgetting the basement studios of Helsinki.

"Our folk music and folk dance community lives from interacting and communicating in live situation with music and dance. In these times it has been taken away from us but we wanted to make this tune to tell that the communal support, love for each other and playing and dancing together haven't exintct. They have just shaped their forms for period of time." - J-P Piirainen, composer and organizer of Coronatioin polska

article posted by:Jussi-Pekka Piirainen, Piirainen, Jussi-Pekka

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