FROM GUEST CURATOR CECILIA RYDINGER

POHJOIS-KARJALA

It might not be a coincidence that this video was created during the pandemic year 2020, and it is an absolute must see and experience! This film ingeniously expresses the feeling of solitude and is presented together with brilliant singing! In somewhat bleak colors some aspects of Finnish nature are presented – both the wide countryside, but also the melancholy of the Finnish people. “The girl Anneli whom I wanted to meet up with is gone. Although I lost the tune of life I still keep the broken fragments of my former happiness. For if I treated you badly, I might have been more difficult than I was.” Together with the author Gösta Sundqvist we are invited to leave “For my home region, I’m leaving for North Karelia. I’ll change from jeans into sweatpants. For my home region, North Karelia I’ll drink beer till the sunrise. I’m leaving for North Karelia.”

– Cecilia Rydinger, Conductor and Artistic Director, Orphei Drängar