When a Northern Finnish child picked up a kantele mostly to annoy her sister, no one imagined she would become one of the instrument’s boldest contemporary voices.

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. South Paris native Sarah Cummings has written and published “Finnish Kantele ...

The combination of jazz and Scandinavian folk music, which the ECM label pioneered, is sometimes accused of being chilly and remote, but this is different. Sinikka Langeland plays a kind of tabletop ...