In Finland, music is deeply ingrained in society. It's a natural part of daily culture, and the vocal tradition is especially strong. We welcome to the NPR studios one of the great male choirs from ...

How did a country of a million sad songs finally emerge as the Eurovision winner thanks to Lordi? What happened in Finnish popular music at the turn of the last century and is there something that ...

The deeply forested, lake-strewn country of Finland was celebrating a national festival. Every Finnish hamlet was gaily festooned and beflagged. Schoolchildren had the day off. Deputations from the ...

L- Less than a century ago, composer Jean Sibelius was writing music that reflected Finland as it gained its independence from Russia. Since then, the country has grown to be a progressive, ...

Seraphine Meschberger loved concerts in Finland so much she'd fly there from Switzerland to attend. She eventually decided to move to Finland and is now working there full-time. She said she loves the ...

Punk rock has always sought to speak for the underdog — to challenge our notions of what normal means. Finnish punk band Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät is putting a bold new spin on that idea. All four ...

Finland’s approach to modern folk music is vastly different than the singer-songwriter-centric subgenre most Americans are familiar with. Over there, it’s not so much a harbinger of heartbreak or ...

A new study examined whether an extended music education had an impact on pupils' experienced satisfaction with the school. Nearly a thousand pupils at ten Finnish schools with extended music classes ...