Sunday, 10 May 2026, 6pm, Synagogenkonzert, Folk Band Thalamus
The musicians are Riku Elomaa – 2-and 5-row accordion, Elina Lappalainen – double bass, Pauliina Pajala – 5-string fiddle, Henrik Norri – bouzouki
Nordic folk, Music with global twist
The Folk Band Thalamus has enriched the Finnish folk music scene for almost two decades. Their diverse combination of tunes – both traditional and composed – originates from and gets influenced by the music of different parts of Europe, Americas and the Northern Africa. In addition to the melodies themselves, Thalamus has always put a great effort on the arrangements as well: “To make it interesting and often surprising for the audience too, to make it Thalamus Music!”
The current line-up (Pauliina, Elina, Henrik and Riku) has been together since 2013 when Elina joined the band. That is also when yet another more active phase for the band started. Since then Thalamus has been playing in many festivals in Finland and also made tours in Belgium in the summers of 2015, 2016 and 2018. On summer 2018 Thalamus published their first full length album called Merenia followed by a tour in Germany in the spring of 2019.
During the past few years Thalamus have studied old folk tunes from the Päijät-Häme region part of the band comes, made a few new ones and married some of them with poems from Auli Kokkonen. All this resulted in a collection of regional tunes and songs performed in 2022 and 2023. Next chapter of the project will follow in 2024…
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