Friday, August 29, 2025

Join us: Nordic Folk Music Wed Sept 24, 2025



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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