Music Directory: Kantele

The Finnish Kantele - Text from the Finnish epic poem Kalevala involving its mythic origins. Includes illustrations.

Kantele - Description, illustration, history, and methods of playing from World Music Tradition.

The Kantele - Brief history, photos and sound samples of Finland's national instrument, also known as the "kannel".

Kantele Stories - Finnish music teacher Merja Soria tells how the instrument connects even with American students and audiences. Includes photographs.

Kantelemusic.com - Resources for the Kantele. Online lessons, downloads, sheet music, chord charts, articles and reviews and artist biography of site owner.

Sing Out! The Folk Song Magazine - International Baltic Psaltery Conference

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT

March 22, 2008 -- Folk Music Institute, in association with Kanteleliitto, Finnish Ethnomusicological Society, Global Music Centre and Music Department of the Central...

Sing Out! The Folk Song Magazine - Pauliina Lerche: Malanja

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT

January 1, 2007 -- PAULIINA LERCHE Malanja Ruote 106 Lerche sets out her stall fully in the first three tracks here--a prime piece of Finnish folk-pop, a tasty...

Daily Variety - From the crusades to fantasy land.(EYE ON THE ONCARS: MUSIC)(Harry Gregson-Williams )

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:00:00 GMT

November 30, 2005 -- Harry Gregson-Williams Domino, Kingdom of Heaven, Chronicles of Narnia In order to give his epic scores "The Chronicles of Narnia

Independent, The (London) - DARTS: King sent packing as Brantjes holds nerve

Thu, 06 Jan 2005 08:00:00 GMT

January 6, 2005 -- THE THIRD seed Mervyn King, twice runner-up at the BDO World Championship, bowed out of this year's tournament at the Lakeside Country Club last...

Scandinavian Studies - The discovery of Finnish American folk music.

Sat, 22 Sep 2001 07:00:00 GMT

September 22, 2001 -- BETWEEN 1880 and the onset of World War I, more than 300,000 Finns emigrated to the United States variously fleeing evictions from peasant...