Juurakko

Juurakko serves a delightful combination of Finnish and 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 Finnish delta.

Laura Kaartinen – vocals, harmonium, percussion
Eija Kankaanranta – kantele
Kaisa Saarikorpi – vocals, cigar box instruments, guitars, percussion
Minsku Tammela – vocals, bowed lyre, comb, mouth harp, percussion
Anna Wiksten – vocals, plankku (2-string bass), percussion