Can You Festival?

Indie efforts

Trendy urbanites into melancholy guitar tones and yearning vocals – some might call them hipsters – feel at home at the Flow Festival in central Helsinki’s Suvilahti in early August.

Sideways is a two-day festival at Teurastamo, Helsinki, with wide variety of good music, food, drinks and side programme including, for example, arts, talks and arcade games.

Bättrefolk festival is a funky culture festival specialised in music and literature, located in beautiful Hailuoto – an island and a municipality in Northern Ostrobothnia region. Bättrefold i Fjällen is the winter edition of the festival held in the Pyhä Ski Resort in Lapland.

Fat Beats

Hip hop heads get together at Blockfest in Tampere at the end of August. The festival features world-class rhymers as well as Finnish talent. Blockfest has hosted everyone from Wiz Khalifa, Post Malone and A$AP Rocky to rap icons like Nas and Snoop Dogg.

Heavy Metal Mania

Finland is a country of hard rock and heavy metal lovers, which is evident in genre-dedicated events all over the country. The best-known is Tuska (translates directly to “pain”), a three-day metal festival in central Helsinki. Sauna Open Air, a name that truly suits a Finnish metal festival, takes place in Tampere, Lakeland.

DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY

If heavy metal isn’t your cup of tea, maybe electronic music is. Helsinki is the home of WKND Festival, the biggest EDM festival in Finland with more than 40 000 electronic music lovers attending annually. WKDN Festival is held every year in July or August – and has always sold out before the event has started!

celebrate with the sámi

Ijahis idja, meaning ‘Nightless Night’, is a festival celebrating the music of indigenous peoples. The event, held every August in Inari, is the only music festival held in Finland that concentrates on Sámi music. Listen and experience the music of Sámi and other indigenous peoples in concerts, music seminars, workshops and clubs.

Photo above by: Ville Fofonoff, Ijahis idja