The wonder of Finland. Closer than you think.

"A week-long celebration of Finland's four-century fiddle tradition in a Central Ostrobothnian village of 4,300, where UNESCO-listed Kaustinen pelimanni fiddling fills every corner from dawn jam sessions to the grand stage."

Kaustinen Folk Music Festival

"Finland's largest early music event, celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2026, spread across the small riverside town of Sastamala with choral and period-instrument concerts in historic venues."

Sastamala Gregoriana

"For two weeks each July, this small boreal forest town of 8,000 becomes one of Europe's foremost chamber music destinations, with concerts held against the backdrop of a lake that nearly laps the walls of the concert halls in the nightless northern light."

Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival

"Set on the remote island of Rosala in the outer Kimitoön archipelago, this annual Viking market brings costumed traders, craftspeople and warriors to one of the oldest documented Norse settlement sites on the Finnish coast."

Vikingadagar Rosala

"The largest Orthodox praasniekka festival in Finland, held each year on the feast day of Prophet Elias in the easternmost municipality of the country, with a candlelit vigil, liturgy, cross procession to the lakeside for a water blessing, and a public folk celebration."

Iljan Praasniekka

"Held in Fornföreningen Fibula's own reconstructed Viking village on the Kvarnbo inlet, this annual market brings together re-enactors, traders, weapon games, a sailing longship and Viking-age food every last July weekend since 1999."

Saltvik Viking Market

"An annual festival celebrating Finnish working-class culture and music held in the unique industrial milieu of the UPM Tervasaari island in the small paper-mill town of Valkeakoski."

Workers' Music Festival

"A one-day outdoor jazz festival held in the church park of Laitila, a small agricultural market town in Southwest Finland, bringing quality jazz to a distinctly rural summer setting."

Jazzkukko Festivaali

"A village running race held at the Löytänä kylätalon, part of the Central Finland village jogging series, offering distances from 5 km to 9.6 km with a lakeside sauna and cafe for participants."

Jaakon hölkkä

"Every 27 July the small seaside town of Naantali throws a celebrity 'Sleepy Head of the Year' into the Baltic Sea at 7 am, followed by a market, parade and cake competition rooted in centuries-old Finnish calendar custom."

Unikeonpäivä - Sleepy Head Day Festival

"A traditional island market day held on the square in Degerby, the small ferry-stop village on the outer Åland archipelago island of Föglö, keeping a local trading custom alive each year on 27 July."

Föglödagen

"Finland's largest summer exhibition of contemporary art, held for the 30th time in 2026, brings over 30 artists to the small mill town of Mänttä surrounded by Finnish forest and the Serlachius art collections."

Mänttä Art Festival

"An African performing arts festival held since 2002 at the Tuulensuu Palace grounds in the small town of Mänttä, presenting music and dance from across Africa in an intimate rural Finnish setting."

Fest Afrika

"Finland's only festival dedicated to Sámi music, held since 2004 in the small village of Inari at the heart of Sápmi, presenting traditional joik and yoik alongside contemporary indigenous artists from across the Arctic."

Ijahis Idja

"A free outdoor summer concert event set in the historic Stallörenin park of the small medieval coastal town of Tammisaari (Ekenäs), closing out summer for the Swedish-speaking Raseborg community."

Raseborg Summerfest

"Set in the Halipuu Forest near Kittilä, this annual midnight-sun competition celebrates the well-being benefits of Finland's vast boreal forests by judging competitors on how well they hug a tree."

Tree Hugging World Championships

"An outdoor late-summer music festival held in Kirkkopuisto beside the medieval Naantali Abbey, drawing local and Finnish artists to this small medieval harbour town at the end of the summer season."

Naantali Sunfest

"The annual town-day festival for Hanko, Finland's southernmost town and a celebrated summer resort, with street events, music and community celebrations at the tip of its distinctive peninsula."

Hangonpäivät

"A late-summer arts festival in the remote Kainuu wilderness town of Suomussalmi, bringing contemporary arts programming to a community best known as the site of a decisive Winter War battle and the wild taiga borderlands."

Gotta say! arts festival

"A four-day classical and light music festival set in the small lakeside town of Virrat, drawing audiences to intimate concerts in an authentic rural Finnish setting."

KesäVirratSoi

"Celebrating its 35th anniversary beside Lake Saimaa, this intimate two-day North Karelian festival brings pelimanni fiddling, kantele performances and the beloved Great Folk Musicians' Parade to a lakeside village of a few thousand souls."

Kihaus Folk Festival