Jouhikko-orchestra

Finland

Pekko Käppi and Rauno Nieminen are part of the Finnish “jouhikko-scene” and members of Jouhikko-orchestra. They have performed and had workshops all over Finland. In Viljandi they have also invited Marianne Maans to join in their performances

Rauno Nieminen is the grand old man of Finnish jouhikko playing and he has been building, researching and playing jouhikkos since the mid 1970s.
Pekko Käppi is a student of Ethnomusicology at the University of Tampere and has studied folk music in Ala-Könni-Opisto in Kaustinen.
Rauno and Pekko also appear on the world´s very first Finnish jouhikko recording “Hiien Hivuksista - Jouhikko Music from Finland” which was released in 2003.

• Pekko Käppi – jouhikko (a fiddle-like instrument), vocal
• Rauno Nieminen – jouhikko, Jew’s harp, vocal
• Marianne Maans – fiddle, bowed harp, Esse keyed fiddle, vocal

• Pekko Käppi: + 358 50 590 38 91 pekko.kappi@uta.fi