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Written in Folk Roots issue 144, 1995

AMERIIKAN POIJAT
Finnish Brass in America
Global Village CD 810 (1994)

There’s a tradition of brass septets in Finland, playing for dancing, church services and civic ceremonies, and using material appropriate to each function and continuous with the rest of the folk tradition (the Folk Music Institute even has its own in-house septet). Ten American musicians based in Minnesota led by Paul Niemisto here play polkas, waltzes, schottisches, a jenkka, tangos, concert pieces and more in a very elegant, fluid, non-stodgy style. Why aren’t brass bands mentioned when people talk about English traditional musics?


© 1995 Andrew Cronshaw
 

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