Papinniemi summer program information. Some of the events may have an entrance fee.
25.5. Restaurant services open
25.5.-29.5. Lätkä MM – competition studio
26.5. Rautavarasto entertainment orchestra and Grilli evening from 19:00
3.6. Opening of the summer season: Esa Eloranta and Dj Silver from 19:00 (Tickets 10e)
15.6. South Karelia Sauna day from 6 pm (sauna raft, beach sauna, sauna wagon, tent sauna) entrance fee 10e includes all saunas. 18-22.
17.6. Sipoomäki (free access)
23.6. Papinniemi's Midsummer: Bablo, Dj Silver, Midsummer's bonfire from 19:00 (tickets 10e from 21:00)
24.6. Leevi and The Leavings tribute, from 21:00 tickets 10e
8.7. Simeoni Julkunen (known from Voice of Finland), from 9 pm (free entry)
SAT 5.8. The darkening nights of August, Pappar's disco night. Music with the theme K-40 Parties (DJ Kippari plays hits from the 80s and 90s. From 8 p.m. Free entry.
SAT 12.8. Hank Nero from 9 p.m. Hank Nero's gig repertoire stretches from Clapton to Olavi Virta. The concert set played on acoustic and dobro consists of guitar-driven roots music, which the artist has named "Härmäamericana". Nero's songs are good-natured blues and blues rock, also country and rock. FREE ACCESS
FRI 18.8. from 9 p.m. Marko Haavisto & Jouni Saario DUO. Support fee €8 (optional)
FRI 25.8. Closing ceremony of the summer season : OH,? Otto Mikkola, Hatara. from 9 p.m.
(Support fee €10, voluntary)
OH's music is a combination of epic indie pop songs and post-punk influences. Oskari is known for e.g. from Scandinavian Musicgroup and he has collaborated with e.g. With Ellinoora, Kalevauva and Timo Kämäräinen.
Otto Mikkola is a singer and songwriter from Rovaniemi, who is known e.g. from his bands Autiomaa, Puhelenseksi and Romance. Mikkola, known as an active music maker, has embarked on a solo career and is publishing music for the first time under his own name. Jyväskylä's Harava Records released Mikkola's debut album in the spring and winter of 2023.
Growing up in Rovaniemi, Mikkola's songs are colored by the extremes of northern melancholy - darkness and the midnight sun. Emotional texts are mixed with dark-sounding tunes that draw from Americana, folk and folk.
Hatara retroactively describes the sound world he creates as rhythmic music running at low speeds. The trio conjures creeping and lingering sound passages in their mainly instrumental compositions. There will be an undeniably captivating, slow-paced and bitterly beautiful concert in Papinniemi.
