Marianne Maans is a professional and versatile folk
musician from
Finland who performs both solo and with various ensembles
as a singer
and fiddler. Her specialty is Finnish-Swedish folk music,
but her
musical interests range from contemporary music styles to
Argentinian
tango to improvisation. Marianne holds a Master of Music
degree from the
Folk Music Department of the Sibelius Academy.
Pekka Pentikäinen: Finnish accordionist, composer and
accordion teacher,
has a Master´s degree in Music from the Sibelius Music
Academy. He
performs with various music groups representing the
diverse styles of
music in Finland, Europe, the USA, Canada and Australia.
Currently Pekka
works with the 2-row accordion band Accrowbatics and the
folk music big
band Espoon Pelimannit.
In previous years, Marianne and Pekka played together with
others in the
Finnish folk band Pirnales. Below are several links to
videos of
Marianne and Pekka playing, together and in separate
performances.
You can visit Marianne's Facebook profile here - you might have to copy and paste:
https://www.facebook.com/marianne.maans
Pekka's link is here:
https://www.facebook.com/pekka.pentikainen
Here is a beautiful song performed by Marianne, who sings
and plays the
fiddle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzfL518eEFU
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