”Plays like a village full of haunted fiddlers”, wrote the leading Finnish newspaper about Emilia Lajunen.
Emilia Lajunen is a well known professional Finnish folk musician, known for her personal, strong, and modern style of playing the violin. Her style of playing claims its origins in archaic heritage and fiddler music.
More about this from https://kaustinen.net/kaustisen-showcase-yhtyeet-2025-valittu/
End of April and beginning of May 2025 Emilia was working in artist residence in Sundsvall, Sweden with two great musicians Bridget Marsden and Emma Ahlberg Ek.
Later there will be more news about this fine and great project. During the residency these three were creating some new music with fiddle, 5-string fiddles, nyckelharpa and some extra instruments. What an inspiring combination!
Emilia plays some different nyckelharpas: kontrabasharpa and chromatic nyckelharpa. In spring 2025, arrived a new instrument, the nyckjil pigja (also so called ähtäväharpa), built by Rauno Nieminen. More about Emilia´s nyckelharpas here. Lue lisää On some moments there will be now opening the sound of the instrument by playing and then maybe some new fresh music, who knows!
