Category: Art

Radio Helsinki, owned by Finland’s biggest daily newspaper
Helsingin Sanomat, also managed to close a deal to broadcast Van
Zandt’s syndicated weekly radio show Little Steven’s Underground Garage. The show can be heard starting from August 10th on Sundays at 2 p.m. and will be repeated on Tuesdays.

Radio Helsinki can be heard locally on the air on 88.6 Mhz and worldwide via www.radiohelsinki.fi. The website also offers recordings of this week's shows and interviews with Van Zandt.

Markus Nordenstreng's interview with Little Steven can be heard from 1 p.m. local time on Sunday (13.7) on Radio Helsinki’s Rakkaudesta show.

Radio Helsinki (in Finnish, with several live streams)

Interview with Van Zandt on Helsingin Henki

Little Steven's Underground Garage

Iglesias earlier already cancelled a concert that was scheduled to take place in Tampere in 2003.

Refunds
Ticket holders for the Björk concert can return their tickets to Lippupalvelu or Tiketti ticket outlets.

People who have purchased tickets for the Julio Iglesias concert can
get their money back at Lippupalvelu or Menolippu or trade their
tickets for tickets for the Juanes concert at Helsinki’s Ice Hall on
September 14th.

Björk last performed in Finland during the Ruisrock festival in 1998,
her (then) third concert in the country. Iglesias fans have had to wait
since 1992 for their idol to perform in Finland again.

At an extensive free event, there will be music by among others afro-beat/soul singer Mad Ice (UGA) and soothe-voiced Brazilian singer-songwriter Thais Morell.
The evening programme will also showcase dances from Britain to Tahiti
and from Indonesia and China to the Balkans and the Middle East.

The taste buds can be pampered with the ethnic food available at the
market outside, which will also offer lots of non-Finnish handicrafts.

The cultural event at Rastis is free of charge and starts at 15.00 (music and dance from 17.30).

More information at www.rastis.fi

During his time as Editor, Kivekäs innovated the magazine drastically,
among other things by developing it with more varied use of the Finnish
language (with lots of wordplays, references and synonyms). He also
started printing the names of the illustrators that worked on the
stories, which had been taboo until then.

During his life time, Kivekäs met both Walt Disney (1901-1966) and legendary Donald Duck illustrator Carl Barks (1901-2000). The latter he brought to Finland for a visit in 1994.

Aku Ankka, first published in 1951, is one of Finland’s most
popular magazines, both among children and adults. It is currently read
by over one million people a week, a huge number considering the
country's population of  just 5.2 million.

Aku Ankka (in Finnish)