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Dear friend of Arkadia,

You are invited to a concert by Finnish-Danish Quartet Visit Finland on Thursday 11.5 at 6pm at Arkadia (Nervanderinkatu 11) 

Johannes Gammelgaard, tenor saxophone
Toomas Keski-Säntti, piano
Juuso Kasperi Rinta, double bass
Okko Saastamoinen, drum set

For music examples, listen here:

https://soundcloud.com/johannesgammelgaard/sets/johannes-visits-helsinki

Welcome!

Warm regards,

Ian
www.arkadiabookshop.fi

– Entrance is free but a donation of €3 (or more!) to fund the event is suggested and would be most welcome. If you have no loose change or coins we gladly accept payment via Visa Electron or Mastercard etc. !

Visit Finland

The most profound things can happen when you visit new places. Visit Finland is a result of exactly this, namely a jazz quartet formed by Danish saxophone player Johannes Gammelgaard when he was in exchange at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in the fall of 2016. Here he found the perfect musicians to play a bunch of his own compositions that had been waiting for a long time to get performed. Written during the 3 years of his bachelor studies in Denmark, they present a mix of jazz, blues and Danish folk music inspired by his personal heroes like Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins and Jesper Zeuthen. They are joyful, happy and swinging pieces of music with strong melodies that are very likely to stay in your head for days to come.