Helsinki Day at Kanneltalo
During Helsinki Day, the Kanneltalo café stage will be filled with a variety of activities. Enjoying a sing-along, learning about the secrets of magic and listening to some groovy jazz.
During Helsinki Day, the Kanneltalo café stage will be filled with a variety of activities. Enjoying a sing-along, learning about the secrets of magic and listening to some groovy jazz.
The host will be actor Ella Pyhältö.
Café Pöytäliina will be open for the entire event. Instead of lunch, however, food and drinks suited to the theme of Helsinki Day will be served.
PROGRAMME
13.30–14 Hyvän tuulen hetkissä teemana Stadi ja kesä
Musician Mari Kätkä leads the most beloved sing-along songs while illustrator Sari Airola illustrates them into narrative images.
15–16 Magician Mika Värtö
Magician Mika Värtö is a recent Finnish Championship medallist in restaurant magic. He has astonished audiences at many private and corporate events.
17–18 Mathias Sanberg – The Captain
Mathias Sanberg has been called "one of Finland's best kept secrets", the highly acclaimed guitarist and composer Mathias Sandberg is one of the hardest working jazz musicians in the country. He has studied at Manhattan School of Music in New York and Berklee College of Music in Boston and worked with artists such as Georg Riedel, Pierre Swärd, Peter Asplund, Nick Mancini, Jukka Eskola, Teppo Mäkynen and Manuel Dunkel.
Sandberg plays a hundred or so concerts a year and has toured both Europe and the United States. Mathias Sandberg's debut solo album The Doctor (2020) has received both huge critical review and airplay on jazz radio stations in Europe, United States, South America, Asia and Australia. Sandberg's highly anticipated new trio album The Captain will be released in March 2023, and showcases his unique blend of hard swingin', groovy and soulful jazz with strong melodic writing, rhythmically playful improvisation and a delightful, almost telepathic interplay between the three.
Mathias Sandberg, guitar
Zacharias Holmkvist, bass
Stefan Brokvist, drums