Kantele-ilo Kantele-joy

This fall our class learned lullabies, songs that sound like church bells, a bear feast polska, traditional Finnish Christmas tunes and songs from the Kalevala.

In the Kalevala, Finland’s folk epic poem, there is a time when Väinäimöinen who is the great sage, great singer of songs sits down on a singing stone with his 5-string kantele for the first time and plays. The music is beautiful, mysterious, haunting and full of joy.

Old Väinäimöinen, immortal singer,