Karelian Folk Music Ensemble "Tui Tui Tuomen Kukka"

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Coming from the land of the Kalevala, an ancient land of forests, lakes, small villages and epic songs, the Karelian Folk Music Ensemble is a trio from Petrozavodsk, in the Russian Republic of Karelia. Karelia is a region that encompasses both sides of the Finnish/Russian border and the ensemble's music is an exciting and interesting mix of Finnish, Russian and Karelian cultures. Their music ranges from the ancient epic songs accompanied by Finnish harps to a capella Russian village songs, from old shepherd melodies on wooden flutes and trumpet to Finnish dances on accordions, and from scythe accompaniment to church bells. Instruments played by the trio include 5,10, and 32-string kanteles (finnish-karelian harp ), jouhikko (karelian bowed lyre), wooden wind instruments ( diatonic flutes, overtone flutes, goat's horn, birch barked trumpet, and Estonian bag-pipes), Russian and German button accordions, mandolin, bass, scythe and horse bells, plus three strong voices accompanied by instruments or sung acapella.

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Music

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• karelian
• folk
• music
• ensemble
• tui
• tuomen
• kukka
• karelia
• finnish
• suomi
• finland
• kantele
• lament
• song
• world

[paivatar1]

Kiitos!

[TurkGucu3457]

5 *****

[albabhoy81]

folk music really shows we are all the same people no matter where we are from! Brilliant!

Scotland no1!!!! :) lol

[SolntsaSvet]

the bearded guy in the middle looks scary and cool at the same time. nice tune btw...

[buidseach]

wasnt Kahn from star trek a Karelian ?

[Tulinenlumi]

Hyvin kaunis =)

[LucienDragon]

My grandmother is from Karelia, and she told me about her memories. She and her family were driven away from their house by the russian troops. A couple of years ago she went back there and it was a sad sight for her. Her old house was still there but some russians had taken it, and lived in it. Some other buildings had been burned down to the ground. She told me it made her really sad. I can imagine the feeling, but somehow its good that it happened.. If it didn't i wouldn't exist...

[timomastosalo]

@Svansakuten Did you want to answer to Simon4tw?

[Svansakuten]

@timomastosalo

Clever boy, keep up with the good work!

[Svansakuten]

@timomastosalo

There were no countries in the stone age and earlier. We didn't have borders at all. The Viking time is what you need to know about, Simon. The Baltic was our way to East.

[Svansakuten]

@MembThePenguinII

We are having the same genetic background as all in Scandinavia.

[timomastosalo]

@simon4tw The whole Baltic-Finnic culture was born by a mixture of Germanic people with the Finnic people by the waterways of the Baltic coast, possibly in the Neva and even Ladoga region. The lanuage which we Finns nowadays speak shows great soumd changes in about 2000 BCA/BC or a bit earlier. So sailing the Baltic sea + the rivers close to it brought these quick contacts with an alien culture which were indeed usually rare. But Finns by the Baltic sea got Baltic & Germanic influence a lot