WEBVTT 00:00:11.170 --> 00:00:21.662 - Good evening. How are you doing? Great. Greetings from Finland. 00:03:51.874 --> 00:04:03.235 - Thank you very much. Yeah, feels crazy to think that it was way over 20 years ago since we stood on 00:04:03.235 --> 00:04:14.596 - this very same stage the first time. It's been a while and great to be back here in Bloomington. We 00:04:14.596 --> 00:04:18.686 - were walking around in the town and 00:04:18.850 --> 00:04:30.017 - Today we had some spare time in the afternoon. And yes, we really like it here. Great to see you all. 00:04:30.017 --> 00:04:41.293 - We really like it here, for real. We started with the tune Tero has written. It's called Lemminkäinen 00:04:41.293 --> 00:04:46.110 - Tempelissä in the Temple of Lemminkäinen. 00:04:46.658 --> 00:04:55.116 - Lemminkäinen is one of the main characters in our national epic called Kalevala. A very stubborn character. 00:04:55.116 --> 00:05:03.108 - Everything tends to go wrong with him for some reason. And there was this eccentric guy in Finland who 00:05:03.108 --> 00:05:11.022 - was kind of a cult leader who had a lot of followers some time ago. And he claimed that he's actually 00:05:11.022 --> 00:05:15.678 - related to Lemminkäinen. And he was so serious about this. 00:05:15.778 --> 00:05:23.230 - that he actually told that there's a spot in southern Finland in a small town called Sipo and the temple 00:05:23.230 --> 00:05:30.399 - of Lemminkainen is there deep underground so we need to dig it up so him together with his followers 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:37.567 - started to dig up the temple but for some reason they didn't find it I don't know why yet yeah but a 00:05:37.567 --> 00:05:45.374 - few years ago a group of international investors bought this very same piece of land and let's see if they're 00:05:45.890 --> 00:05:53.316 - going to dig some more dirt. Maybe they'll find it someday, you never know. We have the music ready 00:05:53.316 --> 00:06:00.891 - in case they find the temple. All right, we're gonna play some dance music. This is the type of music 00:06:00.891 --> 00:06:08.317 - that people in our home region in the valley of River Perho in Western Finland, this is the type of 00:06:08.317 --> 00:06:14.110 - music people like to dance to in the weddings. There's Polska and Flikuleeri. 00:13:00.130 --> 00:13:09.134 - Thank you very much. That was music from Kaustinen also, but it's composed by the most famous folk fiddler 00:13:09.134 --> 00:13:17.885 - in Finland ever so far, called Konsta Jylhä, and the tune is called Tähtisilmä valssi. But now we'll 00:13:17.885 --> 00:13:26.300 - play something we actually learned here. This is a Swedish tune, but I think that was our last time 00:13:26.300 --> 00:13:27.646 - here, which was 00:13:29.666 --> 00:13:36.268 - time before that I kind of remember exactly but it was over 10 years ago easily yes anyway and after 00:13:36.268 --> 00:13:42.935 - our concert we went to a jam session and and the people there played this melody which we didn't know 00:13:42.935 --> 00:13:49.537 - at that point and we learned to tune and we decided to make our own version next day we were driving 00:13:49.537 --> 00:13:57.054 - somewhere else from here and we're singing there the melody in the car and decided to do our own version out of it 00:13:57.442 --> 00:14:06.798 - And a few years later, we found out that it's actually composed by Roger Talroot from Wesson. And yeah, 00:14:06.798 --> 00:14:10.846 - here it is. It's called Come Hem, Come Home. 00:25:22.562 --> 00:25:30.743 - And that was 250 years old party music from Finland, two traditional Polskars. And we call this set 00:25:30.743 --> 00:25:39.088 - Spoof. Next we'll play something that I composed. This is called Loimu. And Loimu is a light that you 00:25:39.088 --> 00:25:45.470 - get from a fire when it's not burning anymore. From a fireplace, for example. 00:31:39.074 --> 00:31:47.026 - we play something I composed for a cooking video. My friend was doing a cooking video, and he was doing 00:31:47.026 --> 00:31:54.748 - a traditional Kaustinen dish from our region, Juusto Paisti, which is a cheese and meat stew. And he 00:31:54.748 --> 00:32:03.005 - wanted me to compose background music for the video that would remind him of Kaustinen Folk Music Festival, 00:32:03.005 --> 00:32:07.134 - so I did my job, and here's the Juusto Paisti Polska. 00:32:07.746 --> 00:32:15.454 - and we'll combine it with Esko's tune, A Bit of Shottis. Yeah, it's called A Bit of Shottis. 00:32:15.454 --> 00:32:23.742 - In many cases, it's much easier to write a tune than come up with a good name for it. There you go. 00:37:51.362 --> 00:37:57.342 - Jäähubäis poloneisi, a farewell poloneise that I composed after my dad passed away way too early. 00:42:50.498 --> 00:42:58.033 - Thank you very much. We've got time for one more tune. Before that, we want to thank Wayne, Tony, Eli, 00:42:58.033 --> 00:43:05.422 - all the people here in the house taking good care of us and doing the sound, the lights, everything. 00:43:05.422 --> 00:43:12.811 - Of course, all the volunteers of the festival who have been also taking really good care of us while 00:43:12.811 --> 00:43:18.078 - we've been here so far. Big thank you. And we believe it will continue. 00:43:18.498 --> 00:43:24.608 - We're gonna play a tune from Konsta Jylhä, who's the most famous Finnish folk musician ever. 00:43:24.608 --> 00:43:31.238 - And in fact, he was so famous that in the 70s, he went to places by helicopter so that he was able to 00:43:31.238 --> 00:43:37.932 - catch all the gigs he was ordered to play. Me and Tero, we're not quite there yet, but we believe that 00:43:37.932 --> 00:43:44.562 - the direction is correct. And in case someone is interested, we brought some CDs and also sheet music 00:43:44.562 --> 00:43:47.422 - books, so feel free to check out the merch. 00:43:48.578 --> 00:43:54.334 - shop. Thank you very much and see you around. Have a good festival everybody.