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Ääni Ja Vimma (music Competition)
Ääni ja Vimma (meaning in Finnish "The Sound and the Fury") is a popular annual band competition in Finland. It was founded in 1996.Events City of Helsinki - Youth Department, Retrieved March 20, 2012 Current rules require that band members be between age 15 and 25 and that the bands have not released an album or have a record deal. Since 2000, a youth competition called Junior Ääni ja Vimma has also been held for those under the age of 15. The winners of the competition do not automatically obtain a record deal, but the high-profile of the competition in Finland has led to winners getting record contracts, including bands such as 2009's winners ''Wedding Crashers'', and 1997's '' Come Inside''.(25 April 2008) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Come Inside
Come Inside is a Finnish glam rock, brit pop and indie rock band founded in 1996 at the Alppila Senior High in Helsinki, Finland. Though Sippola writes the band's lyrics in fluent English, the band remains mostly unknown outside of Finland, where they had several top-20 records. The band comprised Mikko Sippola (vocals), Junnu Alajuuma (guitar), Sampsa Kaukua (guitar), Jotti Taival (bass) and Oskari "Ose" Vilmunen (drums), who first met each other in the aforementioned high school and subsequently decided to form a band. According to their own words, their first-hand contact to music was playing e.g. " Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Hendrix and Stevie Wonder" together.Come Inside Later, during the recording sessions for their second album ''Fearless'', guitarist Kaukua left the band and was replaced by Matti Salovaara (g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YLE Uutiset
Yle Uutiset is the Finnish news production unit of Yle. Yle Uutiset also produces news in Sami, Russian and English. News in the other national language, Swedish, is produced by the unit Svenska Yle. On TV, news is broadcast daily on Yle TV1 at 11:00, 15:00, 17:00, 18:00, 20:30 and 21:45 EET. The main broadcast, at 20:30 on Yle TV1, is known as ''Yle Uutiset klo 20:30.'' It receives usually ratings from 700,000 to 900,000. If something remarkable has happened ratings are almost always over million. Yle Uutiset modernized its look in February 2013 and facelifted in 2019. The new look includes new studios as well as new intros. News anchors Main anchors * Matti Rönkä * Jussi-Pekka Rantanen * Piia Pasanen Other anchors * Tommy Fränti * Marjukka Havumäki * Marjo Rein Marjo Rein (born 1967) is a Finnish news presenter and television personality. She is best known as the host of the show Yle Uutiset, by the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yleisradio Oy ( Finnish, lite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Länsiväylä (newspaper)
''Länsiväylä'' is a Finnish language free newspaper published twice a week in the cities of Espoo, Kauniainen and Kirkkonummi in southern Finland, on Wednesdays and weekends. The total readership of ''Länsiväylä'' numbers 136 thousand. The print newspaper has 121 thousand readers, the combined print and digital newspaper has nine thousand and the digital newspaper has 15 thousand. ''Länsiväylä'' is published by Etelä-Suomen Media which is part of the Keskisuomalainen concern. The newspaper is printed at SLY-Lehtipainot. Sister magazines in the capital area include ''Helsingin Uutiset'', '' Nurmijärven Uutiset'' and '' Vantaan Sanomat''. History The newspaper was founded by the Asuntosäätiö foundation in 1954. Its name at the time was ''Tapiola Tänään'' and its function was to serve as an information medium to the inhabitants of the newly founded district of Tapiola in Espoo. In January 1969 the newspaper was renamed ''Länsiväylä''. In 2013 ''Länsiväylä'' wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Competitions In Finland
Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect of all human societies, a cultural universal. While scholars agree that music is defined by a few specific elements, there is no consensus on their precise definitions. The creation of music is commonly divided into musical composition, musical improvisation, and musical performance, though the topic itself extends into academic disciplines, criticism, philosophy, and psychology. Music may be performed or improvised using a vast range of instruments, including the human voice. In some musical contexts, a performance or composition may be to some extent improvised. For instance, in Hindustani classical music, the performer plays spontaneously while following a partially defined structure and using characteristic motifs. In modal jazz the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
