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 One of Kokkola Winter Accordion XXIII closing weekend’s most captivating events is without a doubt Friday evening’s Love and Poetry Club, whose Master of Ceremonies is, of course, Keke Lammassaari. “Love and Poetry Club is where theatre, poetry and accordion meet and...

Kokkola Winter Accordion takes place this year amid a global emergency. Unfortunately, this means that the popular Guardia Nueva grand performance can’t take place on the last Saturday of the festival – a first in festival history. But luckily everyone can still enjoy...

 Due to illnes, a live performance of Vildá planned for Wednesday evening has been canceled. But fear not: Vildá has not left the building. The one-hour-long concert will kick-off with a speical 15-minute-long recorded performance of the group that earned it the...

Kokkola Winter Accordion XXIII is always open to the new, and year has really put us to the test – with positive results. Having met the complicated challenge of presenting a festival in the middle of a pandemic, we can honestly say that something new and wonderful...

An atmospheric evening at Jukkolanmäki Kokkola Winter Accordion is the premier winter festival of Kokkola, offering a wide range of popular music events throughout the city. This year’s festival takes place under pandemic restrictions, with hopes for better times...

--This year’s festival week kicks off with familiar events Current circumstances will affect this year’s Kokkola Winter Accordion, but the show will go on – and with performances that are well-known to festival followers, the ones that will really make you feel like...