Värttinä
Värttinä (, meaning "spindle") is a Finnish folk music band that started as a project by Sari and Mari Kaasinen in 1983 in the village of Rääkkylä, in Karelia, the southeastern region of Finland. Many transformations have taken place in the band. Värttinä shot into fame with the release of their 1991 album Oi Dai. , the band consists of three lead female vocalists supported by three acoustic musicians. The vocalists sing in the Karelian dialect of the Finnish language.
Key facts
- Musical artist.name
- Värttinä
- Musical artist.image
- Värttinä 1.jpg
- Musical artist.caption
- Värttinä in 2007
- Musical artist.background
- group_or_band
- Musical artist.origin
- Rääkkylä, Finland
- Musical artist.genre
- Folk, worldbeat, world fusion
- Musical artist.years_active
- 1983–present
- Musical artist.label
- Nonesuch/Elektra RecordsReal World Records
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Article
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Old Värttinä
- New Värttinä
- Rebirth
- 2010s
- Members
- Current members
- Former members
- Discography
- Also appear on
- References
- External links
Värttinä (, meaning "spindle") is a Finnish folk music band that started as a project by Sari and Mari Kaasinen in 1983 in the village of Rääkkylä, in Karelia, the southeastern region of Finland. Many transformations have taken place in the band. Värttinä shot into fame with the release of their 1991 album Oi Dai. , the band consists of three lead female vocalists supported by three acoustic musicians. The vocalists sing in the Karelian dialect of the Finnish language.
In August 2005, Värttinä recorded their tenth studio album, Miero, at Finnvox Studios, Helsinki. It was released on 25 January 2006 in Finland, and 30 January 2006 worldwide. In 2006, Värttinä also released the Värttinä Archive Live DVD, which included material from their 20th-anniversary concert and other new and archive material. Värttinä collaborated with A. R. Rahman, a notable Indian composer, in composing the music for the theatrical adaptation of the Lord of the Rings, which played in Toronto in 2006 and in London in 2007.