Juurakko serves a delightful combination of Finnish and Afro-American roots music with vivid storytelling and rakish skiffle spirit. Highly skilled a cappella blues singing in Finnish is combined with exotic instruments like the kantele, the harmonium, the bowed lyre, the cigar box guitar, a coffee mug and a suitcase. The music of Juurakko invites you to a waltz with an old sailor, takes you to an island of unwanted people and brings earthy echoes from the Deep South.
Juurakko was selected as the Artist of the Year at the Finnish Ethnogala 2020.
Laura Kaartinen
vocals,
harmonium,
percussion
harmonium,
percussion
Minsku Tammela
vocals,
bowed lyre,
comb,
Jew’s harp,
percussion
bowed lyre,
comb,
Jew’s harp,
percussion
Anna Wiksten
vocals,
plankku,
percussion
plankku,
percussion
Eija Kankaanranta
kantele
Kaisa Saarikorpi
vocals,
cigar box instruments,
guitars,
percussion
cigar box instruments,
guitars,
percussion
Laura Kaartinen
vocals, harmonium, percussion
Minsku Tammela
vocals, bowed lyre, comb, Jew’s harp, percussion
Anna Wiksten
vocals, plankku, percussion
Eija Kankaanranta
kanteleet
Kaisa Saarikorpi
vocals, cigar box instruments, guitars, percussion
”Juurakko combines blues and folk music irresistibly.”
”You can’t make a music album much better than this.”
”It simply sounds like a burst of joy.”
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