In February 2026, a concert tour focusing on Kven, Meänkieli and Finnish musical heritage will take place in Northern Norway and Finland. The tour brings together musicians from Norway, Finland and Sweden and presents traditional music within a contemporary Arctic folk and world music context.
The tour is a concrete outcome of an Arctic Pulse Musician Gathering held in Pajala in 2024. During the gathering, Arctic Pulse invited musicians working with minority-language traditions from northern Sweden, Norway and Finland to meet, exchange experiences and explore possibilities for future collaboration. Several ideas emerged from this process, of which this concert tour is one result.
Through a series of concerts at local venues, the tour aims to make minority-language musical traditions visible across borders and to strengthen professional collaboration between artists in the region. The activity contributes to the circulation and development of traditional music rooted in the Arctic area.
The concert tour is part of the Interreg Aurora funded project Arctic Music Circles, focusing on minority and folk music development, and is implemented in collaboration with project partners and local organisers in Norway and Finland.
Read more about the project Arctic Music Circles
