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A remote outpost 9 00:01:04,531 --> 00:01:07,301 geographically and culturally separate 10 00:01:07,367 --> 00:01:09,502 from mainstream America, stitched with 11 00:01:10,103 --> 00:01:12,906 Writers like Ernest Hemingway, John 12 00:01:12,972 --> 00:01:16,643 Voelker, Phil Caputo and Jim Harrison 13 00:01:17,143 --> 00:01:19,746 have celebrated mystical healing powers 14 00:01:19,946 --> 00:01:21,781 of the peninsula's wilderness. 15 00:01:22,615 --> 00:01:25,319 Those who know it say it's God's 16 00:01:25,385 --> 00:01:25,985 country. 17 00:01:26,419 --> 00:01:30,290 (Forboding music) 18 00:01:39,432 --> 00:01:42,102 The UP is a hard place. 19 00:01:42,168 --> 00:01:44,938 But the indigenous Anishinaabe and 20 00:01:45,004 --> 00:01:47,841 European immigrants have survived. 21 00:01:48,575 --> 00:01:51,011 The psychology of the peninsula people 22 00:01:51,077 --> 00:01:54,447 is embedded deep in this ethnic mix. 23 00:01:54,981 --> 00:01:57,818 For two centuries, America has grown 24 00:01:57,884 --> 00:02:00,753 from indigenous peoples and Europeans 25 00:02:01,054 --> 00:02:02,823 as the peninsula dramatically 26 00:02:02,889 --> 00:02:06,460 illustrates the indigenous peoples. 27 00:02:06,526 --> 00:02:09,295 Ojibway, Pottawatomie and Odawa 28 00:02:09,762 --> 00:02:12,666 together called the Anishinaabe, are on 29 00:02:12,732 --> 00:02:16,270 five reservation communities through 30 00:02:16,336 --> 00:02:19,073 their drum stories, food ways and 31 00:02:19,139 --> 00:02:22,209 rituals. The Anishinaabe maintain their 32 00:02:22,275 --> 00:02:23,810 traditional cultures. 33 00:02:24,277 --> 00:02:28,214 (Native American drum songs) 34 00:02:49,002 --> 00:02:51,939 Anishinaabe cultural traditions are 35 00:02:52,005 --> 00:02:55,075 still experiencing a revival, but 36 00:02:55,141 --> 00:02:57,977 without continued immigration, old 37 00:02:58,044 --> 00:03:01,014 world European traditions are fading. 38 00:03:02,248 --> 00:03:05,018 Almost all of Europe blends into her 39 00:03:05,084 --> 00:03:09,056 mining towns in the western counties. 40 00:03:09,122 --> 00:03:11,058 The first miners were indigenous 41 00:03:11,124 --> 00:03:14,994 people. But in the 1870s Cornishmen, 42 00:03:15,228 --> 00:03:17,965 the expert industrial miners performed 43 00:03:18,031 --> 00:03:20,834 the groundwork for huge copper and iron 44 00:03:20,900 --> 00:03:25,939 mines. By 1920, there were 32 languages 45 00:03:26,005 --> 00:03:28,709 spoken on the streets of Calumet that 46 00:03:28,775 --> 00:03:31,478 is now only an historic copper mining 47 00:03:31,544 --> 00:03:35,282 town. Irish, French, Canadians, 48 00:03:35,348 --> 00:03:38,452 Italians and Croatians set up their own 49 00:03:38,518 --> 00:03:42,122 immigrant language Catholic parishes in 50 00:03:42,188 --> 00:03:44,157 the northern and western counties. 51 00:03:44,390 --> 00:03:46,927 Finnish Americans are the largest of 52 00:03:46,993 --> 00:03:49,095 the European ancestry groups. 53 00:03:50,096 --> 00:03:52,599 French Canadians settled in the sawmill 54 00:03:52,665 --> 00:03:55,569 towns of L'anse, Baraga, Chassell, 55 00:03:55,635 --> 00:03:56,836 and Lake Linden. 56 00:03:57,537 --> 00:04:05,445 (Fiddle and guitar playing) 57 00:04:06,913 --> 00:04:10,717 Other ancestry groups include Belgians, 58 00:04:10,783 --> 00:04:13,954 Poles and Bohemians, Austrians and 59 00:04:14,020 --> 00:04:18,157 Armenians, Greeks, Italians, Danes, 60 00:04:18,424 --> 00:04:22,629 Swedes, Germans, Czechs, Croatians, 61 00:04:22,695 --> 00:04:26,032 Serbs, Lithuanians and Montenegrins, 62 00:04:26,299 --> 00:04:28,635 Luxembourgers, Slovenians. 63 00:04:29,002 --> 00:04:30,904 These cultures are interspersed 64 00:04:30,970 --> 00:04:33,340 throughout the Upper Peninsula, making 65 00:04:33,406 --> 00:04:35,809 a colorful rainbow, and each 66 00:04:35,875 --> 00:04:38,011 contributes its own distinctive 67 00:04:38,077 --> 00:04:39,679 coloring. 68 00:04:41,681 --> 00:04:43,650 This deep and rich cultural 69 00:04:43,716 --> 00:04:46,053 heritage has attracted prominent 70 00:04:46,119 --> 00:04:48,688 folklorists from across the nation. 71 00:04:49,422 --> 00:04:53,059 Alan Lomax toured the UP in the 1930s 72 00:04:53,459 --> 00:04:55,562 and on what would now be considered 73 00:04:55,628 --> 00:04:58,565 primitive equipment, filmed ordinary 74 00:04:58,631 --> 00:05:01,201 folks in their own homes and front 75 00:05:01,267 --> 00:05:04,704 porches to document ancestral music 76 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:10,043 In Champion and Baraga. 77 00:05:10,109 --> 00:05:12,212 I found French ballad singers who still 78 00:05:12,278 --> 00:05:14,947 enjoy Ballenfast that lasted all night 79 00:06:04,697 --> 00:06:07,601 It was Alan Lomax who gave us this 80 00:06:07,667 --> 00:06:10,270 authentic film portrayal of the early 81 00:06:10,336 --> 00:06:11,571 music. 82 00:06:12,772 --> 00:06:14,675 Richard Dorson, the great 83 00:06:14,741 --> 00:06:17,277 pioneering folklorist who studied the 84 00:06:17,343 --> 00:06:19,513 traditions of the Upper Peninsula in 85 00:06:19,579 --> 00:06:23,116 the late 1940s, said, "The abundance 86 00:06:23,182 --> 00:06:26,320 and diversity I found still stagger 87 00:06:26,386 --> 00:06:29,856 me." Professor Jim Leary, a folklorist, 88 00:06:30,256 --> 00:06:32,259 has documented the upper Midwest 89 00:06:32,325 --> 00:06:34,928 diverse musical traditions since the 90 00:06:34,994 --> 00:06:39,032 1970s, leading to many publications and 91 00:06:39,098 --> 00:06:40,666 media productions. 92 00:06:41,501 --> 00:06:44,004 And Michael Loukinen, a cultural 93 00:06:44,070 --> 00:06:46,873 sociologist filmmaker with deep ties to 94 00:06:46,939 --> 00:06:49,509 the UP, has made over a dozen 95 00:06:49,575 --> 00:06:51,311 documentaries about the upper 96 00:06:51,377 --> 00:06:54,047 peninsula's traditional cultures, some 97 00:06:54,113 --> 00:06:56,115 of which feature ethnic music. 98 00:06:57,049 --> 00:07:00,553 (Harmonica music) 99 00:07:09,629 --> 00:07:13,700 🎵For he's a rough and ready guy A lumberjack is he.🎵 100 00:07:13,766 --> 00:07:19,105 🎵Good old rough and ready guy That's the we he's got to be.🎵 101 00:07:22,375 --> 00:07:29,987 (Group of stringed instruments, singing in foreign language) 102 00:07:35,822 --> 00:07:41,527 (Fiddle music) 103 00:07:55,041 --> 00:08:01,419 (Native American drum songs) 104 00:08:07,220 --> 00:08:15,034 (Guitar music, female singing in Foreign language) 105 00:08:22,502 --> 00:08:27,940 (Kantele Music) 106 00:08:34,647 --> 00:08:36,883 Well, in the late 19th century in 107 00:08:36,949 --> 00:08:41,154 Finland, the button accordion was being 108 00:08:41,220 --> 00:08:44,056 circulated into the country along with 109 00:08:44,457 --> 00:08:48,361 with new dance tunes from Continental 110 00:08:48,995 --> 00:08:51,598 Europe, couples dances, new couple 111 00:08:51,664 --> 00:08:53,833 dances, the polka, the waltz, The 112 00:08:54,267 --> 00:08:56,636 schottische or jenkka, or sometimes 113 00:08:56,702 --> 00:08:59,539 Rhinelander as Finns, Finns would call 114 00:08:59,605 --> 00:09:02,876 it. And so all of those things were 115 00:09:02,942 --> 00:09:05,779 happening at a time when Finns came 116 00:09:05,845 --> 00:09:08,714 over to to the copper country. 117 00:09:08,814 --> 00:09:10,550 Wasn't just Finns by themselves. 118 00:09:10,616 --> 00:09:13,319 There were Chippewa Indians, there were 119 00:09:13,886 --> 00:09:16,890 Cornish and Irish, there were French 120 00:09:16,956 --> 00:09:20,059 Canadians, there were Croatians and 121 00:09:20,293 --> 00:09:23,930 Slovenians, and there were Italians. 122 00:09:24,931 --> 00:09:27,267 And those people all had their their 123 00:09:27,333 --> 00:09:28,768 music as well. 124 00:09:29,068 --> 00:09:30,836 They might have house parties, 125 00:09:31,137 --> 00:09:34,107 especially what happened also in lumber 126 00:09:34,173 --> 00:09:36,176 camps when people would be getting 127 00:09:36,242 --> 00:09:39,513 together on a Saturday night, you know, 128 00:09:39,579 --> 00:09:43,049 you'd have people of different ethnic 129 00:09:43,115 --> 00:09:45,819 mixtures bringing together what they 130 00:09:45,885 --> 00:09:48,488 knew in common, some kind of step 131 00:09:48,554 --> 00:09:50,856 dancing or some kind of a waltz or 132 00:09:50,957 --> 00:09:53,293 polka, one thing or another. 133 00:09:53,359 --> 00:09:55,462 And, you know, then after a while, you 134 00:09:55,528 --> 00:09:57,831 get people who intermarry some. 135 00:09:57,897 --> 00:10:01,401 And there are all these exchanges of 136 00:10:01,467 --> 00:10:02,769 tradition. And then there's music 137 00:10:02,835 --> 00:10:04,871 that's coming in from the outside. 138 00:10:04,937 --> 00:10:10,042 So by the 20s, there was powerful radio 139 00:10:10,176 --> 00:10:12,745 kind of getting out and coming into the area 140 00:10:13,212 --> 00:10:16,515 Oh yeah Bashful Joe hey? 141 00:10:16,849 --> 00:10:18,251 He used to sing on the radio in the 142 00:10:18,317 --> 00:10:18,917 morning. 143 00:10:19,018 --> 00:10:20,954 We'll have a musical roundup. 144 00:10:21,020 --> 00:10:23,523 We'll have a barrel of fun. 145 00:10:23,589 --> 00:10:25,725 For you know you can't go wrong with a 146 00:10:25,791 --> 00:10:27,661 good old Western song. 147 00:10:27,727 --> 00:10:29,563 And we'll put the blues on the run. 148 00:10:29,629 --> 00:10:31,264 That was Bashful Joe's theme song. 149 00:10:31,330 --> 00:10:31,930 Yeah. 150 00:10:32,565 --> 00:10:35,468 People here began to listen to kind of 151 00:10:35,801 --> 00:10:39,706 the sweet jazz of the era being exposed 152 00:10:39,772 --> 00:10:42,676 to that and playing it or mixing it 153 00:10:42,742 --> 00:10:44,711 with some of their local traditions. 154 00:10:44,777 --> 00:10:47,346 So there was a for example, in the 155 00:10:47,580 --> 00:10:49,982 1930s, there was a barn dance. 156 00:10:50,282 --> 00:10:51,884 I think they were called something like 157 00:10:52,084 --> 00:10:54,587 Curley Bradley in his Hard Cider Boys. 158 00:10:54,820 --> 00:10:56,822 Curley Bradley was a Slovak. 159 00:10:57,056 --> 00:10:58,692 And there are a couple of Italians and 160 00:10:58,758 --> 00:11:00,493 a couple of Finns in the band dressed 161 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:01,861 up as cowboys. 162 00:11:03,129 --> 00:11:05,031 You have all of that stuff that that's 163 00:11:05,097 --> 00:11:08,268 happening, this is an area that in some 164 00:11:08,334 --> 00:11:11,437 ways is is isolated and is a kind of a 165 00:11:12,004 --> 00:11:15,141 unique mixture of whoever it was that 166 00:11:15,207 --> 00:11:16,776 that came here and different kind of 167 00:11:16,842 --> 00:11:17,911 micro locations. 168 00:11:17,977 --> 00:11:20,680 But it also is connected to the larger 169 00:11:20,746 --> 00:11:22,782 world and there are areas of that that 170 00:11:22,848 --> 00:11:23,516 seep in. 171 00:11:24,350 --> 00:11:26,620 This is the one tool that my father ever 172 00:11:26,686 --> 00:11:28,955 gave me that I think I have almost 173 00:11:29,021 --> 00:11:29,622 mastered. 174 00:11:34,827 --> 00:11:38,531 Just before the Finns really came in 175 00:11:38,597 --> 00:11:41,133 large numbers, the largest foreign born 176 00:11:41,367 --> 00:11:45,105 population in the Keweenaw area were 177 00:11:45,171 --> 00:11:48,774 Irish. A lot of Germans. 178 00:11:49,575 --> 00:11:51,478 And then there was the big flood of 179 00:11:51,544 --> 00:11:53,546 Finn after 1880. 180 00:11:54,547 --> 00:11:58,017 The Finns depending on what their their 181 00:11:58,484 --> 00:12:01,187 their own personal interests were, if 182 00:12:01,253 --> 00:12:03,622 it was religion or temperance or 183 00:12:04,290 --> 00:12:06,726 progressive politics or whatever, they 184 00:12:06,792 --> 00:12:08,628 would form an organization and they 185 00:12:08,694 --> 00:12:09,829 would build a hall. 186 00:12:09,929 --> 00:12:12,631 That was true all over immigrant halls. 187 00:12:14,967 --> 00:12:17,237 Put up a workers hall or a temperance 188 00:12:17,303 --> 00:12:19,271 hall, or maybe the Italians had a hall 189 00:12:19,839 --> 00:12:21,908 where they could play music and get 190 00:12:21,974 --> 00:12:23,576 together, or they could have house 191 00:12:23,642 --> 00:12:27,413 parties and and at those areas or 192 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:30,483 events, it might be predominantly one 193 00:12:30,549 --> 00:12:31,851 ethnic group or another. 194 00:12:31,917 --> 00:12:34,821 But musicians are always attracted to 195 00:12:34,887 --> 00:12:37,923 other musicians, and so they learn 196 00:12:38,324 --> 00:12:40,493 songs and tunes from them. 197 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:43,430 Sometimes they pick up new instrumental 198 00:12:43,496 --> 00:12:45,831 techniques or new instruments. 199 00:12:46,165 --> 00:12:49,469 And so all of this music, you know, all 200 00:12:49,535 --> 00:12:51,738 of their folk music came together as 201 00:12:51,804 --> 00:12:53,006 people started to get to know each 202 00:12:53,072 --> 00:12:55,008 other. The Italians, of course, there 203 00:12:55,074 --> 00:12:56,208 were no recordings. 204 00:12:56,709 --> 00:12:59,245 So all music to be enjoyed had to be 205 00:12:59,311 --> 00:13:00,479 produced live. 206 00:13:01,547 --> 00:13:07,386 And the one of the most popular 207 00:13:08,287 --> 00:13:11,290 kinds of music was brass band music. 208 00:13:12,591 --> 00:13:16,229 Every ethnic lodge had a brass band of 209 00:13:16,295 --> 00:13:17,563 one size or another. 210 00:13:18,798 --> 00:13:20,467 Of course, there were a lot more men 211 00:13:20,533 --> 00:13:22,301 that were coming at first than women. 212 00:13:23,736 --> 00:13:25,338 And so there was a lot of competition 213 00:13:25,404 --> 00:13:27,073 to gain the attention of the young 214 00:13:27,139 --> 00:13:28,908 Finnish women by all of these young 215 00:13:29,308 --> 00:13:33,145 men. A young Finnish fellow in Calumet 216 00:13:33,312 --> 00:13:36,816 could not hope to get the attention of 217 00:13:36,882 --> 00:13:39,752 a young Finnish woman if he did not 218 00:13:39,818 --> 00:13:43,123 have the uniform of his organization's 219 00:13:43,189 --> 00:13:45,858 brass band to strut around in. 220 00:13:46,692 --> 00:13:48,595 One of the things that I noticed when I 221 00:13:48,661 --> 00:13:51,297 started searching out the older Finnish 222 00:13:51,363 --> 00:13:54,768 American musicians was that they all 223 00:13:54,834 --> 00:13:58,671 love playing Slovenian polkas. 224 00:14:00,673 --> 00:14:04,244 And I also noticed that some of the 225 00:14:04,310 --> 00:14:06,880 Slovenian accordion players and even 226 00:14:06,946 --> 00:14:09,081 some of the Croatian tamburitza players 227 00:14:09,882 --> 00:14:14,987 would sometimes attempt to sing a song 228 00:14:15,254 --> 00:14:19,658 in Finnish. It became a great mishmash, 229 00:14:20,659 --> 00:14:23,662 no matter what your last name was or 230 00:14:23,729 --> 00:14:24,897 where it originated. 231 00:14:25,497 --> 00:14:26,666 If you were going to play at a wedding 232 00:14:26,732 --> 00:14:28,767 reception, you had to be able to play 233 00:14:29,134 --> 00:14:30,236 the Slovenian polka. 234 00:14:30,302 --> 00:14:31,470 Maricka Pegla. 235 00:14:31,904 --> 00:14:35,774 🎵Oj Marička Pegla, Pegla, Pegla, Pegla🎵 236 00:14:36,141 --> 00:14:40,012 🎵Oj Marička Pegla, Pegla, Pegla, Pegla🎵 237 00:14:40,412 --> 00:14:44,217 🎵Oj Marička Pegla, Pegla, Pegla, Pegla🎵 238 00:14:44,283 --> 00:14:48,153 🎵Oj Marička Pegla, Pegla, Pegla, Pegla🎵 239 00:14:50,189 --> 00:14:52,525 In the bigger cities where there are 240 00:14:52,591 --> 00:14:57,363 these ethnic enclaves that perhaps 241 00:14:57,563 --> 00:15:00,332 there's there's more of a boundary 242 00:15:01,433 --> 00:15:04,870 between the various ethnic communities 243 00:15:05,304 --> 00:15:07,106 and people don't play each other's 244 00:15:07,172 --> 00:15:09,141 music all that much. 245 00:15:09,408 --> 00:15:12,011 But here everybody was playing 246 00:15:12,077 --> 00:15:13,212 everybody's music. 247 00:15:14,847 --> 00:15:19,385 And and I think it developed a kind of 248 00:15:19,985 --> 00:15:23,355 Upper Michigan style of of traditional 249 00:15:23,422 --> 00:15:24,089 music. 250 00:15:25,891 --> 00:15:28,161 In Hancock, Michigan, there was a really 251 00:15:28,227 --> 00:15:30,964 remarkable Finnish, American guy named 252 00:15:31,030 --> 00:15:36,903 Rudy Kemppa and he promoted Finnish 253 00:15:36,969 --> 00:15:40,039 dances. He collected Finnish 78 RPM 254 00:15:40,105 --> 00:15:41,540 records with with Finnish, 255 00:15:41,707 --> 00:15:43,275 Finnish-American musicians. 256 00:15:43,609 --> 00:15:46,079 And he had a long standing radio 257 00:15:46,145 --> 00:15:48,447 program that went on into the nineteen 258 00:15:48,747 --> 00:15:49,815 seventies. 259 00:15:50,182 --> 00:15:56,388 (Old Accordion music) 260 00:16:12,438 --> 00:16:13,940 Viola Turpeinen was was born 261 00:16:14,006 --> 00:16:17,377 in 1909, in Champion her folks were Finnish 262 00:16:17,443 --> 00:16:19,078 immigrants. 263 00:16:19,144 --> 00:16:21,914 At a young age, she started to play the 264 00:16:22,614 --> 00:16:25,485 kaks-rivinen, the two row button 265 00:16:25,551 --> 00:16:26,686 accordion. 266 00:16:26,752 --> 00:16:29,321 The piano accordion, by the time she was 267 00:16:29,388 --> 00:16:33,092 in her early teens, was sweeping across 268 00:16:33,158 --> 00:16:34,928 the country. It offered a lot more 269 00:16:34,994 --> 00:16:36,829 possibilities for a player because you 270 00:16:36,895 --> 00:16:38,297 could play in any key. 271 00:16:38,664 --> 00:16:40,366 So she began to play that. 272 00:16:40,432 --> 00:16:43,202 And when she was a teenager, there was 273 00:16:43,268 --> 00:16:46,505 a guy named John or Jukka Rosendahl who 274 00:16:46,905 --> 00:16:48,608 came touring through. 275 00:16:48,674 --> 00:16:51,110 He had one of these on one of these 276 00:16:51,176 --> 00:16:53,713 kind of variety shows that that would 277 00:16:53,779 --> 00:16:56,416 go on in Finnish halls. 278 00:16:56,482 --> 00:16:58,418 And he was a kind of an impresario, but 279 00:16:58,484 --> 00:17:01,888 also a good musician on violin and 280 00:17:01,954 --> 00:17:04,990 banjo. While in the Iron River area, he 281 00:17:05,324 --> 00:17:07,994 heard Viola Turpeinen playing and was 282 00:17:08,060 --> 00:17:13,566 just dazzled by her and in the early 283 00:17:13,632 --> 00:17:17,002 1920s, got permission from her parents 284 00:17:17,436 --> 00:17:20,740 for her to go on on tour with him. 285 00:17:20,806 --> 00:17:24,910 And she was extremely well received. 286 00:17:25,544 --> 00:17:31,917 (Old accordion music) 287 00:17:58,110 --> 00:18:00,446 In 1979, when I started to do the work, 288 00:18:00,512 --> 00:18:02,048 she'd been dead for 20 years, but 289 00:18:02,114 --> 00:18:05,084 people were full of memories for her. 290 00:18:05,651 --> 00:18:08,354 Some said she took a sauna right here 291 00:18:08,420 --> 00:18:10,456 or she always used to come to our house 292 00:18:10,522 --> 00:18:12,524 and she liked rice pudding. 293 00:18:13,358 --> 00:18:16,662 Others said, I found several people who 294 00:18:16,728 --> 00:18:19,132 claimed that either they had an 295 00:18:19,198 --> 00:18:21,000 accordion that was hers or that she 296 00:18:21,066 --> 00:18:23,469 played an accordion that they had. 297 00:18:23,669 --> 00:18:25,738 So she was like a like a saint of 298 00:18:25,804 --> 00:18:29,208 sorts. She remains very much in the 299 00:18:29,274 --> 00:18:31,711 memories, in the hearts of Finnish 300 00:18:31,777 --> 00:18:32,511 Americans. 301 00:18:32,911 --> 00:18:38,450 (Accordion music and singing) 302 00:18:54,500 --> 00:18:58,638 Art was definitely a man of the people, 303 00:18:58,704 --> 00:19:00,807 you know, someone who worked in the 304 00:19:00,873 --> 00:19:04,010 woods, ran a little tavern, piano 305 00:19:04,076 --> 00:19:06,879 accordion player, if people wanted to 306 00:19:07,613 --> 00:19:09,681 hear some music, he'd come around from 307 00:19:09,815 --> 00:19:12,685 behind the bar and play it, play a few 308 00:19:12,751 --> 00:19:15,054 tunes. 309 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:16,622 For working people. 310 00:19:17,022 --> 00:19:19,125 Sunday afternoons is the time for 311 00:19:19,191 --> 00:19:22,095 sociability, because when you were at 312 00:19:22,161 --> 00:19:26,666 his place, it wasn't like being in a 313 00:19:26,732 --> 00:19:27,834 concert venue. 314 00:19:27,900 --> 00:19:30,936 It was like being in a in someone's 315 00:19:31,136 --> 00:19:33,472 home. You know, there was all of this 316 00:19:34,006 --> 00:19:37,109 kind of direct interaction and teasing 317 00:19:37,175 --> 00:19:39,679 back and forth and a lot of stuff that 318 00:19:39,745 --> 00:19:41,880 you might call natural. 319 00:19:42,314 --> 00:19:45,151 He was very integrated into his his 320 00:19:45,217 --> 00:19:45,951 community. 321 00:19:46,351 --> 00:19:49,288 Polkas, schottiches, rattikas I always 322 00:19:49,354 --> 00:19:51,290 feature them and enjoy playing them. 323 00:19:51,356 --> 00:19:55,728 And that still gives me pleasure to 324 00:19:55,794 --> 00:19:58,598 play them. And so that's the way it's 325 00:19:58,664 --> 00:19:59,998 been all through my life. 326 00:20:00,532 --> 00:20:03,468 so I have three students 327 00:20:03,802 --> 00:20:07,140 they have been with me for a number of years now. 328 00:20:07,206 --> 00:20:10,543 going on the 4th year and hopefully, 329 00:20:10,609 --> 00:20:14,981 they'll stay with it and carry on the Finnish 330 00:20:15,047 --> 00:20:19,051 polkas, schottisches and radhikas that I enjoy playing 331 00:20:19,117 --> 00:20:23,990 and it seems like it's coming back pretty strong again 332 00:20:24,056 --> 00:20:27,994 and I've survived 50 years of this kind of music 333 00:20:28,060 --> 00:20:32,598 and I'm sure that it'll stay around for some time 334 00:20:32,664 --> 00:20:34,333 From now on. 335 00:20:34,833 --> 00:20:37,936 (Accordion ensamble) 336 00:20:57,155 --> 00:21:00,159 Sunday morning they gather around the TV 337 00:21:00,225 --> 00:21:02,562 And watch that Finland Calling 338 00:21:02,628 --> 00:21:04,530 Suomi Kutsuu 339 00:21:04,596 --> 00:21:05,898 This is Finland Calling 340 00:21:05,964 --> 00:21:08,100 America's only Finnish language program 341 00:21:08,467 --> 00:21:11,436 Featuring the sights and sounds of Finland 342 00:21:11,770 --> 00:21:13,772 Including the Finnish devotional 343 00:21:14,439 --> 00:21:17,743 Here's the host of Finland Calling Carl Pellonpaa. 344 00:21:18,710 --> 00:21:24,550 No one did more to promote Finnish American music than Carl Pellonpaa 345 00:21:24,616 --> 00:21:27,853 Who broadcasted on his weekly TV program 346 00:21:28,153 --> 00:21:31,390 Suomi Kutsuu or Finland Calling 347 00:21:31,890 --> 00:21:35,995 Carl organized dances in Finnish towns throughout the UP 348 00:21:36,061 --> 00:21:39,465 Where he video recorded music and dancing 349 00:21:39,531 --> 00:21:42,834 And played it on his TV program 350 00:21:43,302 --> 00:21:48,006 He set a world record for the longest running TV variety show 351 00:21:48,373 --> 00:21:49,708 Hosted by the same person. 352 00:21:51,276 --> 00:21:57,482 53 years every Sunday from 1962 to 2015 353 00:22:00,185 --> 00:22:04,756 Alright polka time, let's do it. 1, 2, 3 354 00:22:04,956 --> 00:22:08,594 🎵Someone stop the Kishka, someone stole the kishka🎵 355 00:22:08,660 --> 00:22:12,798 🎵Someone stop the Kishka, from the butcher shop. Hey.🎵 356 00:22:12,864 --> 00:22:20,605 🎵Who stole the kishka? Who stole the kishka?Better call the cops.🎵 357 00:22:21,006 --> 00:22:25,010 Oren Tikknen is an amazing contemporary 358 00:22:25,310 --> 00:22:27,880 yooper. His his mother is from Missouri, 359 00:22:27,946 --> 00:22:30,449 his dad is a Finn from the Upper 360 00:22:30,515 --> 00:22:33,218 Peninsula. His dad worked in the mines. 361 00:22:33,552 --> 00:22:35,253 You know, he went off to school. 362 00:22:36,288 --> 00:22:38,024 Rock and roll was happening, the folk 363 00:22:38,090 --> 00:22:40,526 revival was happening, and all sorts of 364 00:22:40,592 --> 00:22:42,194 musical things were happening. 365 00:22:43,095 --> 00:22:45,498 And he was interested in all of those 366 00:22:45,564 --> 00:22:46,832 and absorbed them. 367 00:22:46,898 --> 00:22:50,602 And he decided to come home, come back 368 00:22:50,969 --> 00:22:52,037 to the UP. 369 00:22:52,270 --> 00:22:57,176 And instead of being like a lot of 370 00:22:57,242 --> 00:22:59,512 folkies from the upper Midwest who look 371 00:22:59,578 --> 00:23:02,148 to the South or the West for 372 00:23:02,214 --> 00:23:05,517 inspiration, he decided to look around. 373 00:23:05,751 --> 00:23:09,788 And what Oren has done then is, is to 374 00:23:10,956 --> 00:23:14,460 band together with other folks in the 375 00:23:14,526 --> 00:23:18,263 region who are interested in sustaining 376 00:23:18,497 --> 00:23:20,499 elements of the old time music, but 377 00:23:20,565 --> 00:23:23,235 also doing it and in new ways, 378 00:23:23,301 --> 00:23:25,905 sometimes doing newer songs. 379 00:23:25,971 --> 00:23:29,875 And and he's done a good deal more than 380 00:23:29,941 --> 00:23:32,011 that. But he he, more than any other 381 00:23:32,077 --> 00:23:35,114 person, has been the the driving force 382 00:23:35,180 --> 00:23:38,217 in sustaining and being a kind of an 383 00:23:38,283 --> 00:23:40,786 anchor for in a resource for Finnish 384 00:23:40,852 --> 00:23:42,654 American music in the UP. 385 00:23:43,054 --> 00:23:48,193 (Guitar solo) 386 00:23:59,938 --> 00:24:02,875 There's a network too between the Upper 387 00:24:02,941 --> 00:24:06,912 Peninsula and Minneapolis and the Iron 388 00:24:06,978 --> 00:24:09,815 Range of Minnesota in particular. 389 00:24:11,149 --> 00:24:12,818 We should mention the Kisarit Finnish 390 00:24:12,884 --> 00:24:14,085 dancers. Oh, yes. 391 00:24:14,386 --> 00:24:17,890 Al had become the accordionists for 392 00:24:17,956 --> 00:24:20,760 that group in the Twin Cities, but then 393 00:24:20,826 --> 00:24:22,994 when Dennis came along 394 00:24:23,195 --> 00:24:25,130 And then I was out playing for the 395 00:24:25,263 --> 00:24:27,466 Kisarit we started doing still continue 396 00:24:27,532 --> 00:24:28,768 doing parties and playing music 397 00:24:28,834 --> 00:24:30,503 together. And then the band began to 398 00:24:30,569 --> 00:24:33,139 form and eventually Ralph Tuttila 399 00:24:33,205 --> 00:24:34,874 joined us. And we had a bass string bass 400 00:24:34,940 --> 00:24:37,276 player named Margaret. 401 00:24:37,342 --> 00:24:39,111 Oren would take it as one when he could. 402 00:24:39,177 --> 00:24:40,946 I can remember the first time I got up 403 00:24:41,012 --> 00:24:42,380 and played with those guys was 404 00:24:43,982 --> 00:24:46,419 when they were still called the Keskilannen Pelimoni 405 00:24:46,485 --> 00:24:48,487 The Midwestern Players 406 00:24:48,887 --> 00:24:51,724 Dennis, Al, Oren 407 00:24:51,790 --> 00:24:54,960 I think Margaret Norland was the bass player 408 00:24:55,026 --> 00:24:56,061 With them already. 409 00:24:56,127 --> 00:24:57,830 Who had been with Kisarit too 410 00:24:57,896 --> 00:24:59,465 All these people go back and fourth 411 00:24:59,531 --> 00:25:00,765 Or they are in both groups 412 00:25:02,534 --> 00:25:04,837 And Oren says hey Tutilla you got your mandolin? 413 00:25:04,903 --> 00:25:05,971 Get up here. 414 00:25:06,037 --> 00:25:09,274 Wow he's asking me to play on stage with these guys. 415 00:25:09,774 --> 00:25:13,511 (Traditional Finnish music in foreign language) 416 00:27:10,862 --> 00:27:14,366 (Accordion music) 417 00:27:14,866 --> 00:27:17,303 Al was a descendant of Finns on the 418 00:27:17,369 --> 00:27:19,672 Iron Range, a great piano accordion 419 00:27:19,738 --> 00:27:22,908 player, and he and Oren made a series 420 00:27:22,974 --> 00:27:28,113 of wonderful recordings of classic 421 00:27:28,413 --> 00:27:31,549 Finnish American tunes. 422 00:27:31,883 --> 00:27:34,320 I ran into an old friend from Michigan 423 00:27:34,386 --> 00:27:36,188 State University, a guy from the Virgin 424 00:27:36,254 --> 00:27:38,890 Islands met him on the street. 425 00:27:40,225 --> 00:27:41,627 He said Oren Tikkanen. And then I said, 426 00:27:41,693 --> 00:27:44,930 Evan, Harrigan. We started visiting 427 00:27:44,996 --> 00:27:47,366 back and forth. And and then one night 428 00:27:47,432 --> 00:27:50,369 in 1970, he said, come on over Saturday 429 00:27:50,435 --> 00:27:51,470 night and bring your guitar. 430 00:27:51,536 --> 00:27:53,004 I've got a special treat for you. 431 00:27:54,205 --> 00:27:55,441 Wouldn't tell me what it was. 432 00:27:55,507 --> 00:27:59,345 And the treat was his boss, a guy named 433 00:27:59,411 --> 00:28:02,648 Al Reko who played the accordion and 434 00:28:02,714 --> 00:28:03,882 sang in Finnish. 435 00:28:04,549 --> 00:28:08,954 And we started playing together and and 436 00:28:09,020 --> 00:28:11,256 as you know, we're still doing that. 437 00:28:12,691 --> 00:28:14,759 And it just sounded right. 438 00:28:14,993 --> 00:28:16,528 My dad was a bartender. 439 00:28:16,594 --> 00:28:18,964 He bought a bar or an accordion from 440 00:28:19,030 --> 00:28:20,899 one of the customers and brought it 441 00:28:20,965 --> 00:28:22,601 home and says, well, you could read 442 00:28:22,667 --> 00:28:24,570 music now, teach yourself the 443 00:28:24,636 --> 00:28:26,571 accordion. So I did. 444 00:28:27,405 --> 00:28:29,040 And that's where it started for me. 445 00:28:29,674 --> 00:28:32,277 Dennis Halmi moved to the Twin Cities 446 00:28:32,343 --> 00:28:35,180 about that time and started having 447 00:28:35,246 --> 00:28:38,017 these wonderful house parties where Al 448 00:28:38,083 --> 00:28:39,918 and Dennis would bring their accordions 449 00:28:39,984 --> 00:28:41,620 and they would say, we need Oren on 450 00:28:41,686 --> 00:28:44,623 guitar. And oh, we have some times 451 00:28:44,689 --> 00:28:47,192 there 3401 Park Avenue south. 452 00:28:47,258 --> 00:28:47,858 Yeah, 453 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:53,165 I'm very fortunate that a couple of old 454 00:28:53,231 --> 00:28:55,501 pals of mine from the Twin Cities, I've 455 00:28:55,567 --> 00:28:57,169 been to Finland with them a number of 456 00:28:57,235 --> 00:28:58,303 times playing music. 457 00:28:58,369 --> 00:28:59,872 I've been all over North America 458 00:28:59,938 --> 00:29:02,307 playing music with them, Al Reko the 459 00:29:02,373 --> 00:29:04,075 accordion and Dennis Halmi. 460 00:29:05,543 --> 00:29:07,579 And not only that, but these younger 461 00:29:07,645 --> 00:29:11,750 people that I have been forcing to play 462 00:29:11,816 --> 00:29:12,885 traditional music. 463 00:29:12,951 --> 00:29:16,020 Belinda Mattfolk from Dollar Bay, who 464 00:29:17,388 --> 00:29:20,091 plays plays the flute beautifully and 465 00:29:20,458 --> 00:29:23,094 and does really well on the drums. 466 00:29:23,628 --> 00:29:27,265 And Matthew Durocher. 467 00:29:30,502 --> 00:29:32,538 I'll tell you, if I were if I was one 468 00:29:32,604 --> 00:29:34,673 of those church guys, I would say I am 469 00:29:34,739 --> 00:29:37,443 blessed. And if I don't say it, you can 470 00:29:37,509 --> 00:29:38,276 say it for me. 471 00:29:38,643 --> 00:29:42,981 (Accordion music) 472 00:29:57,395 --> 00:30:01,132 I cannot overestimate the importance of 473 00:30:01,633 --> 00:30:03,102 Al Rekko in my life. 474 00:30:03,168 --> 00:30:05,971 He he's just had an enormous influence 475 00:30:06,037 --> 00:30:08,774 on me. He's one of the sweetest people 476 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:10,042 I've ever met in my life. 477 00:30:10,108 --> 00:30:13,679 He's virtually unflappable and has 478 00:30:13,745 --> 00:30:16,148 dealt with all kinds of hard hardship 479 00:30:16,214 --> 00:30:19,351 in his life. This is one of the one of 480 00:30:19,417 --> 00:30:21,086 the songs that I learned from him. 481 00:30:21,152 --> 00:30:23,021 I learned an awful lot from him. 482 00:30:23,588 --> 00:30:25,491 And then what I do is I turn around and 483 00:30:25,557 --> 00:30:28,493 I make these other guys learn it. 484 00:30:29,694 --> 00:30:30,562 1, 2, 3. 485 00:30:30,628 --> 00:30:34,132 🎵Talvella Talikkalan Markkinoila🎵 486 00:30:36,868 --> 00:30:40,371 🎵Talvella Talikkalan Markkinoila🎵 487 00:30:40,672 --> 00:30:44,509 (Old world music in foreign language) 488 00:30:55,253 --> 00:30:59,624 (Trombone solo) 489 00:31:08,399 --> 00:31:13,304 (Old world music in foreign language) 490 00:31:36,728 --> 00:31:39,364 The Aura Community Hall that dates from 491 00:31:39,430 --> 00:31:42,734 the 1920s there were all those Finns, 492 00:31:42,934 --> 00:31:46,505 many of whom were were mining families 493 00:31:46,571 --> 00:31:50,409 from the copper country, who who bought 494 00:31:50,475 --> 00:31:52,778 cheap farmland up there in northern 495 00:31:52,844 --> 00:31:56,548 Baraga County. And by the 1920s, they 496 00:31:56,614 --> 00:31:57,916 wanted a community hall. 497 00:31:57,982 --> 00:32:00,886 And there was somebody that had an old 498 00:32:00,952 --> 00:32:03,622 hall in another part of the county that 499 00:32:03,688 --> 00:32:04,923 said they could have it if they would 500 00:32:04,989 --> 00:32:07,426 dismantle it. And so a crew of 501 00:32:07,492 --> 00:32:09,528 community people went and they took 502 00:32:09,594 --> 00:32:13,331 that hall apart and they moved it up to 503 00:32:13,464 --> 00:32:15,434 where it is now and set it up. 504 00:32:15,500 --> 00:32:17,869 And it's still operating as it's a 505 00:32:18,303 --> 00:32:21,806 nongovernmental community based Finn hall. 506 00:32:22,473 --> 00:32:25,911 The jamboree, it started apparently 507 00:32:25,977 --> 00:32:30,014 As a Finnish more of a Finnish folk music 508 00:32:31,049 --> 00:32:33,351 Event. 509 00:32:34,285 --> 00:32:36,488 But it's all inclusive so nowadays it's 510 00:32:36,554 --> 00:32:38,991 A lot of bluegrass and old timey 511 00:32:39,057 --> 00:32:41,260 Which holds it together and keeps it going because 512 00:32:41,326 --> 00:32:44,362 There would not be enough Finnish music anymore to 513 00:32:45,897 --> 00:32:48,099 To have a big 2 day festival. 514 00:32:49,033 --> 00:32:52,136 Ok let's do it, how fast do you like to do it? 515 00:32:53,104 --> 00:32:57,208 (Old world Finnish music in foreign language) 516 00:33:27,071 --> 00:33:33,010 (Various music genres mixed together) 517 00:34:25,696 --> 00:34:27,732 The Finns tend to be a very ceremonial 518 00:34:27,999 --> 00:34:30,469 people, they take things with a lot of 519 00:34:30,535 --> 00:34:34,172 seriousness and dignity, unlike we 520 00:34:34,238 --> 00:34:37,141 Americans, Finns and Creoles. 521 00:34:37,775 --> 00:34:39,111 That's what I refer to all of us as. 522 00:34:39,177 --> 00:34:42,013 Yooper creoles. 523 00:34:43,815 --> 00:34:45,384 Three of us are half Finnish and half 524 00:34:45,450 --> 00:34:48,086 something else. Norden is half Scottish 525 00:34:48,152 --> 00:34:52,791 and half Norwegian. And so we we are a 526 00:34:52,857 --> 00:34:57,662 Creole band, northern version. 527 00:35:00,031 --> 00:35:02,367 Get off the couch and see 528 00:35:02,433 --> 00:35:08,340 if you have what it takes. If you want 529 00:35:08,406 --> 00:35:13,744 some winter fun. You got to have snow flakes 530 00:35:15,379 --> 00:35:18,350 Don't be a sour yooper 531 00:35:18,416 --> 00:35:21,620 Get out your snow scoop and see 532 00:35:21,686 --> 00:35:26,390 what Henki Lunta means for you and me 533 00:35:28,826 --> 00:35:32,464 These 15 years, it's been wonderful to 534 00:35:32,530 --> 00:35:36,267 have a couple of musical comrades like 535 00:35:37,201 --> 00:35:41,173 Bob Norden and John Munson to play all 536 00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:42,206 kinds of music with 537 00:35:42,940 --> 00:35:44,676 I thought I knew a lot about these 538 00:35:44,742 --> 00:35:48,480 songs, but you learn a lot from Oren 539 00:35:48,546 --> 00:35:50,415 happy to perform with him. 540 00:35:50,481 --> 00:35:54,218 Oren is our musicologist, and it's put 541 00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:57,655 me in touch with my heredity. 542 00:35:58,289 --> 00:36:01,726 When my mother went to school the first 543 00:36:01,792 --> 00:36:03,995 day of school, she spoke not a word of 544 00:36:04,061 --> 00:36:07,466 English. My my dad had no linguistic 545 00:36:07,532 --> 00:36:10,302 aptitude. Neither do I apparently. 546 00:36:10,368 --> 00:36:14,973 But it's nice, you know, knowing that at 547 00:36:15,039 --> 00:36:17,375 least someone is carrying it on. 548 00:36:18,075 --> 00:36:19,310 Us three old guys. 549 00:36:19,744 --> 00:36:22,113 We we've we've really stuck together 550 00:36:22,179 --> 00:36:23,281 for 15 years now. 551 00:36:23,347 --> 00:36:28,153 And and we are all really getting up 552 00:36:28,219 --> 00:36:33,124 there in age. But my hope is that that 553 00:36:33,257 --> 00:36:35,727 we can keep this going for a long time. 554 00:36:35,793 --> 00:36:38,263 The more and the more I push them, the 555 00:36:38,329 --> 00:36:43,267 more I get that older copper country, 556 00:36:43,734 --> 00:36:46,638 Finnish and other ethnic music coming 557 00:36:46,704 --> 00:36:48,273 in there. And, you know, we play not 558 00:36:48,339 --> 00:36:51,810 only not only do we play, Osa Poiga 559 00:36:51,876 --> 00:36:56,281 Oni Poiga and Lukarin Heikki Polka and 560 00:36:56,347 --> 00:36:58,116 those Finnish things. But I've got them 561 00:36:58,182 --> 00:37:01,386 playing "Oh, Marie" the old Italian 562 00:37:01,452 --> 00:37:04,488 immigrant waltz and got them playing " 563 00:37:05,823 --> 00:37:10,128 Maricka Pegla" and it and I think it's 564 00:37:10,194 --> 00:37:10,794 great. 565 00:37:11,062 --> 00:37:18,905 (Old world music) 566 00:37:21,105 --> 00:37:23,275 I have explored old recordings from 567 00:37:23,341 --> 00:37:25,844 Finland, from from the 20s in the 30s, 568 00:37:25,910 --> 00:37:29,014 I find out that they had these these 569 00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,183 big bands they called Humppa Orkesteri, 570 00:37:32,550 --> 00:37:35,320 and they they were largely, you know, 571 00:37:35,386 --> 00:37:38,890 brass and woodwinds and and oftentimes 572 00:37:38,956 --> 00:37:42,093 a banjo. And they were playing, you 573 00:37:42,159 --> 00:37:46,198 know, kind of a mix of of jazz from 574 00:37:46,264 --> 00:37:50,669 from that era and along with things. 575 00:37:50,735 --> 00:37:52,671 And, you know, like that story that I 576 00:37:52,737 --> 00:37:57,175 tell when we play "Oy Emma" and that 577 00:37:57,241 --> 00:37:59,377 could very well be a true story. 578 00:37:59,577 --> 00:38:01,613 You know, I want you to pretend that, 579 00:38:01,679 --> 00:38:03,881 you know, it's nineteen twenty eight 580 00:38:04,115 --> 00:38:07,485 and a ship has docked at Kotka in 581 00:38:07,551 --> 00:38:10,888 Finland and there is a band on the ship 582 00:38:11,188 --> 00:38:12,990 and some of the musicians had gone 583 00:38:13,958 --> 00:38:15,893 ashore for the evening. 584 00:38:16,260 --> 00:38:17,963 And a couple of these horn players, 585 00:38:18,029 --> 00:38:20,465 guys from New Orleans, didn't make it 586 00:38:20,531 --> 00:38:22,233 back before the ship departed. 587 00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:24,035 And there they are, they're stranded in 588 00:38:24,101 --> 00:38:25,670 Finland. What are they going to do? 589 00:38:26,470 --> 00:38:28,472 They have to look around for some gigs 590 00:38:28,673 --> 00:38:30,275 and they have to play what the people 591 00:38:30,341 --> 00:38:33,511 want and they wind up playing "Oy 592 00:38:33,577 --> 00:38:37,948 Emma". With this New Orleans timbre and 593 00:38:38,382 --> 00:38:40,652 bluesy wailing, I said, this is this is 594 00:38:40,718 --> 00:38:41,986 the Finnish blues. 595 00:38:42,420 --> 00:38:44,155 And then we played that first time we 596 00:38:44,221 --> 00:38:46,458 did that was in Ontonagon and people 597 00:38:46,524 --> 00:38:48,727 were nodding. Afterwards, they came up 598 00:38:48,793 --> 00:38:50,695 and said, yeah, it does sound kind of 599 00:38:50,761 --> 00:38:53,431 like Finnish blues. 600 00:38:54,532 --> 00:39:00,438 (Old world sad music) 601 00:39:14,919 --> 00:39:20,659 Emma Emma oh Emma Emma we shared an 602 00:39:20,725 --> 00:39:24,829 embrace in the pale moonlight. 603 00:39:25,096 --> 00:39:32,905 (Old world sad music) 604 00:39:34,939 --> 00:39:37,575 And unfortunately, in my generation of 605 00:39:37,641 --> 00:39:39,577 Finnish Americans in the Copper 606 00:39:39,643 --> 00:39:41,112 Country, there aren't very many 607 00:39:41,178 --> 00:39:46,017 accordion players. And fortunately for 608 00:39:46,083 --> 00:39:49,154 me, Dave loves Finnish music almost as 609 00:39:49,220 --> 00:39:51,789 much as he loves French Canadian music. 610 00:39:52,256 --> 00:39:54,125 And he even allows me to sing a French 611 00:39:54,191 --> 00:39:56,895 song. And in his group, The 612 00:39:56,961 --> 00:40:00,131 Thimbleberry Band, once in a while, 613 00:40:00,364 --> 00:40:04,368 (Old French song) 614 00:40:19,917 --> 00:40:22,654 Dave Bezotte, I, I, I say to him that we 615 00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:24,955 are brothers of of different mothers 616 00:40:25,656 --> 00:40:28,159 because even though his family all come 617 00:40:28,225 --> 00:40:30,195 from French Canada and I don't have any 618 00:40:30,261 --> 00:40:31,929 French background at all. 619 00:40:32,263 --> 00:40:34,632 We have so much in common in terms of 620 00:40:34,698 --> 00:40:36,167 our interests. You know, French 621 00:40:36,233 --> 00:40:38,236 Canadian music has always interested 622 00:40:38,302 --> 00:40:41,005 me. The music of Jean Carignan and 623 00:40:41,238 --> 00:40:44,743 Philippe Bruneau has always really 624 00:40:44,809 --> 00:40:47,145 gotten to me. And he, on the other 625 00:40:47,211 --> 00:40:49,114 hand, grew up in Chassell, amongst all 626 00:40:49,180 --> 00:40:52,217 those Finns and Finnish music is second 627 00:40:52,283 --> 00:40:54,486 nature to him. And he was the he was 628 00:40:54,552 --> 00:40:56,454 the chairman of the music committee for 629 00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,157 the 2013 Finn Fest USA when it was 630 00:40:59,223 --> 00:41:01,992 here. Dave Bezotte. 631 00:41:02,426 --> 00:41:08,966 (Old French song) 632 00:41:31,222 --> 00:41:32,524 You know, and then we have Matthew 633 00:41:32,590 --> 00:41:35,560 Durocher was right in between us, you 634 00:41:35,626 --> 00:41:38,196 know, from from the the the next 635 00:41:38,262 --> 00:41:41,166 generation. Matt is half Finnish and 636 00:41:41,232 --> 00:41:42,600 half French Canadian. 637 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,370 You know, when when Matt's mother was 638 00:41:45,436 --> 00:41:48,973 in hospice and was was passing away, 639 00:41:49,940 --> 00:41:52,843 you know, we told Matt's father that 640 00:41:53,210 --> 00:41:55,246 Dave and I consider ourselves to be 641 00:41:55,312 --> 00:41:57,781 honorary uncles of Matt. 642 00:41:58,349 --> 00:42:02,287 Yeah. Because we we represent both both 643 00:42:02,353 --> 00:42:04,656 ethnic sides and also because we have 644 00:42:04,722 --> 00:42:07,825 this this musical closeness with him. 645 00:42:09,493 --> 00:42:11,862 Let's have Matt take the chorus. 646 00:42:13,197 --> 00:42:18,302 (Upright base solo) 647 00:42:26,443 --> 00:42:28,012 Over the 14 and a 648 00:42:28,078 --> 00:42:29,881 half years that I've known him, he has 649 00:42:29,947 --> 00:42:32,350 returned to school, finished a 650 00:42:32,416 --> 00:42:34,919 bachelor's degree in English, gone and 651 00:42:34,985 --> 00:42:37,689 lived in Japan for two and a half, 652 00:42:37,755 --> 00:42:39,924 three years with his wife, finished a 653 00:42:39,990 --> 00:42:42,259 degree, a master's degree in 654 00:42:43,127 --> 00:42:46,997 archaeology at Michigan Tech, and 655 00:42:47,331 --> 00:42:50,935 meanwhile deepened his interest in 656 00:42:51,001 --> 00:42:53,504 woodworking, instrument building. 657 00:42:53,570 --> 00:42:55,473 He got really interested in the ancient 658 00:42:55,539 --> 00:42:58,943 Finnish bowed lyre called the jouhikko 659 00:42:59,577 --> 00:43:02,547 and has built a couple of those, and he 660 00:43:02,613 --> 00:43:04,616 plays in the Thimbleberry Band and the 661 00:43:04,682 --> 00:43:07,552 Back Room Boys Jazz Band, and he still 662 00:43:07,618 --> 00:43:10,355 plays electric bass guitar with Cheap 663 00:43:10,421 --> 00:43:12,557 Therapy and a number of other 664 00:43:12,623 --> 00:43:16,160 situations. Very talented. 665 00:43:16,226 --> 00:43:20,064 He's he's a writer and and a poet and 666 00:43:20,731 --> 00:43:25,069 and another another generation of Upper 667 00:43:25,135 --> 00:43:28,372 Michigan, Finnish, American, Creole, 668 00:43:29,373 --> 00:43:30,574 Renaissance people. 669 00:43:31,342 --> 00:43:32,610 It was one of those things where I did 670 00:43:32,676 --> 00:43:35,580 not expect that I would really engage 671 00:43:35,646 --> 00:43:37,147 and enjoy something like this. 672 00:43:38,182 --> 00:43:40,985 But this is it's it's right in my 673 00:43:41,051 --> 00:43:42,686 heart. It's a part of my body. 674 00:43:43,153 --> 00:43:46,858 🎵Heat up your sauna with wood that is🎵 675 00:43:46,924 --> 00:43:50,928 🎵dry. the old folks say popple is good,🎵 676 00:43:51,462 --> 00:43:53,464 (Banjo music) 677 00:43:53,998 --> 00:43:57,335 🎵but you can use maple or hemlock or🎵 678 00:43:57,401 --> 00:44:00,771 🎵pine. It all makes good sauna🎵 679 00:44:01,238 --> 00:44:03,240 (Banjo music) 680 00:44:04,641 --> 00:44:07,177 🎵wood. When The rocks have some heat.🎵 681 00:44:08,746 --> 00:44:11,882 🎵Well, put yourself on the top seat.🎵 682 00:44:12,282 --> 00:44:14,284 (Banjo music) 683 00:44:14,785 --> 00:44:17,388 🎵Wrap your troubles in steam.🎵 684 00:44:19,356 --> 00:44:22,259 🎵And steam your troubles away.🎵 685 00:44:25,963 --> 00:44:30,901 🎵Steam your troubles away.🎵 686 00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:38,542 I think what I am is I'm a connector. 687 00:44:39,109 --> 00:44:43,480 I am a connector. 688 00:44:45,015 --> 00:44:47,885 There are a lot of connections that run 689 00:44:47,951 --> 00:44:50,822 through me and I think both in my 690 00:44:50,888 --> 00:44:53,957 career as a clinical social worker and 691 00:44:54,725 --> 00:44:58,529 and in my musical experience, I've 692 00:44:58,595 --> 00:45:02,734 probably been most valuable making 693 00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:03,767 connections. 694 00:45:04,334 --> 00:45:09,540 (Old world music) 695 00:45:10,307 --> 00:45:13,111 I think that 696 00:45:13,177 --> 00:45:15,747 there's a kind of communication that 697 00:45:15,813 --> 00:45:19,217 goes on between the musicians and the 698 00:45:19,283 --> 00:45:22,954 dancers that you don't find in any 699 00:45:23,020 --> 00:45:25,556 other setting. It's kind of a spiritual 700 00:45:25,622 --> 00:45:27,892 thing because there is there's a kind 701 00:45:27,958 --> 00:45:30,928 of communion that goes on. 702 00:45:31,962 --> 00:45:35,632 I think that in other cultures, the 703 00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:40,037 dancing is seen as a spiritual practice 704 00:45:40,571 --> 00:45:45,643 because it integrates the mind and the 705 00:45:45,709 --> 00:45:48,112 body. And I know that it may sound 706 00:45:48,178 --> 00:45:50,281 strange, but I think that playing old 707 00:45:50,347 --> 00:45:54,718 time dance music in a dance hall for 708 00:45:54,852 --> 00:45:58,356 enthusiastic dancers creates a kind of 709 00:45:58,422 --> 00:45:59,623 spiritual community. 710 00:46:01,024 --> 00:46:02,660 We have not rehearsed this, so don't 711 00:46:02,726 --> 00:46:04,896 hold us to it. One two. 712 00:46:04,962 --> 00:46:06,430 Ready? Go. 713 00:46:09,099 --> 00:46:12,302 We need dancers we need lots of dancers 714 00:46:12,836 --> 00:46:18,876 (Polkka music in foreign language) 715 00:46:46,170 --> 00:46:48,473 Well, I've known Oren since I was a 716 00:46:48,539 --> 00:46:52,276 young woman, young teenager, I guess, 717 00:46:52,876 --> 00:46:57,915 and Oren was friends with my mother and 718 00:46:58,115 --> 00:47:00,218 he would play music and we would we 719 00:47:00,284 --> 00:47:03,087 would go down to Minneapolis and there 720 00:47:03,153 --> 00:47:05,656 would be these beautiful house parties 721 00:47:05,722 --> 00:47:07,458 thrown by some friends of ours, and 722 00:47:07,524 --> 00:47:09,727 there would be traditional music played 723 00:47:09,793 --> 00:47:12,029 late into the night. And so for me, as 724 00:47:12,095 --> 00:47:14,165 a as a young person, this was just very 725 00:47:14,231 --> 00:47:15,833 exciting and it was fun. 726 00:47:16,266 --> 00:47:19,704 And I went to college and I became a 727 00:47:19,770 --> 00:47:21,506 music major, which was sort of always 728 00:47:21,572 --> 00:47:23,307 something that I had intended to do. 729 00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:27,044 And I got really burned out on 730 00:47:27,110 --> 00:47:29,113 academics and classical music. 731 00:47:29,179 --> 00:47:31,048 And so I thought, you know, I just 732 00:47:31,114 --> 00:47:34,685 really need something to play for fun. 733 00:47:34,985 --> 00:47:38,523 And she wanted to know about the English 734 00:47:38,589 --> 00:47:42,794 concertina. And I said, well, I happen 735 00:47:42,860 --> 00:47:43,995 to have one in my closet. 736 00:47:44,061 --> 00:47:45,095 Shall I go and get it? 737 00:47:45,596 --> 00:47:47,899 And I did. She took it back to New 738 00:47:47,965 --> 00:47:50,834 Haven with her. And within four months, 739 00:47:51,935 --> 00:47:54,672 she had transferred a lot of her piano 740 00:47:54,738 --> 00:47:56,540 skills to the concertina. 741 00:47:57,474 --> 00:47:59,343 Immediately, Oren started asking me to 742 00:47:59,409 --> 00:48:01,012 play with him on stage and this was 743 00:48:01,078 --> 00:48:02,680 just absolutely terrifying. 744 00:48:02,746 --> 00:48:06,050 But after I got over the initial terror 745 00:48:06,116 --> 00:48:08,019 of playing an instrument that I didn't 746 00:48:08,085 --> 00:48:10,521 know very well out in public was a lot 747 00:48:10,587 --> 00:48:12,623 of fun to play with Oren and it's very 748 00:48:13,257 --> 00:48:16,560 invigorating to have that level of of 749 00:48:17,361 --> 00:48:19,396 adrenaline on stage. 750 00:48:19,630 --> 00:48:22,433 I would say I just think Oren taught me 751 00:48:22,499 --> 00:48:24,434 to be a more well-rounded musician, 752 00:48:26,737 --> 00:48:29,207 Ranta Koivun Alla, under the shore 753 00:48:29,273 --> 00:48:31,241 birch. I learned it from Al Rekko. 754 00:48:31,975 --> 00:48:33,778 I like to play it out here at Anna's 755 00:48:33,844 --> 00:48:36,246 place in Jacobsville because she has 756 00:48:36,747 --> 00:48:38,482 these beautiful Birch's hanging over 757 00:48:38,548 --> 00:48:40,984 the water next to her sauna. 758 00:48:41,585 --> 00:48:44,722 And it is great to take steam and jump 759 00:48:44,788 --> 00:48:47,324 in the water and splash around under 760 00:48:47,524 --> 00:48:48,492 the shore birch. 761 00:48:49,326 --> 00:48:53,397 (Acoustic music) 762 00:50:03,233 --> 00:50:06,404 Ok, so let's pretend that it's beautiful 763 00:50:06,470 --> 00:50:09,006 outside. The summer, a nice, warm 764 00:50:09,072 --> 00:50:10,508 place, there's no bugs. 765 00:50:10,574 --> 00:50:12,743 The sun is shining. It's about 75 766 00:50:12,809 --> 00:50:16,079 degrees. You're at the park with a 767 00:50:16,546 --> 00:50:19,249 carousel, you know, with the festoons 768 00:50:19,316 --> 00:50:20,818 carousel, maybe in the Twin Cities. 769 00:50:20,884 --> 00:50:23,354 So let's watch the Kivijat, the Pikku 770 00:50:23,420 --> 00:50:26,023 Kivijat and the Loistivat do vatu sepi. 771 00:50:26,456 --> 00:50:32,996 (Old world dance music) 772 00:50:33,830 --> 00:50:34,699 We're on our 16th 773 00:50:34,765 --> 00:50:36,367 year now with the Kivijat dancers, we 774 00:50:36,433 --> 00:50:37,802 actually have three groups. 775 00:50:37,868 --> 00:50:39,736 We have the Loistivat who are the older 776 00:50:39,836 --> 00:50:41,806 preteen and teen kids, and then the 777 00:50:41,872 --> 00:50:43,841 Kivijat who are the upper elementary 778 00:50:43,907 --> 00:50:45,543 age kids. And then we have the Pikku 779 00:50:45,609 --> 00:50:47,211 Kivijat the little Finnish dancers who 780 00:50:47,277 --> 00:50:49,613 meet just a few times during the year. 781 00:50:50,180 --> 00:50:52,483 And it's all about that girl named Marie 782 00:50:52,549 --> 00:50:56,686 who is working and then crying 783 00:50:57,220 --> 00:50:59,156 And then dancing. 784 00:51:01,658 --> 00:51:03,660 Ready? 785 00:51:04,761 --> 00:51:06,763 Oj Marička Pegla 786 00:51:07,230 --> 00:51:09,000 1, 2, ready go 787 00:51:09,066 --> 00:51:13,236 🎵Oj Marička Pegla, Pegla, Pegla, Pegla🎵 788 00:51:13,503 --> 00:51:17,674 🎵Oj Marička Pegla, Pegla, Pegla, Pegla🎵 789 00:51:18,041 --> 00:51:22,212 🎵Oj Marička Pegla, Pegla, Pegla, Pegla🎵 790 00:51:22,512 --> 00:51:26,083 🎵Oj Marička Pegla, Pegla, Pegla, Pegla🎵 791 00:51:26,583 --> 00:51:30,520 (Old wold music) 792 00:52:10,293 --> 00:52:14,498 I think the music is the part of Finnish 793 00:52:14,564 --> 00:52:16,167 tradition that I've always connected 794 00:52:16,233 --> 00:52:18,936 to, and I've come to learn, of course, 795 00:52:19,002 --> 00:52:22,073 that the the music that I grew up 796 00:52:22,139 --> 00:52:25,609 loving as a child is probably the music 797 00:52:25,675 --> 00:52:27,578 of my grandparents generation and 798 00:52:27,644 --> 00:52:32,449 earlier. And it's been really 799 00:52:33,150 --> 00:52:35,753 wonderful to be able to participate in 800 00:52:35,819 --> 00:52:38,422 making some of that music with Oren and 801 00:52:38,488 --> 00:52:40,458 and the other musicians that he plays 802 00:52:40,524 --> 00:52:42,460 with. I think that it is the music that 803 00:52:42,526 --> 00:52:44,829 I connect to the most in terms of 804 00:52:44,895 --> 00:52:46,096 Finnish heritage. 805 00:52:46,763 --> 00:52:49,733 That sense of heritage would would not 806 00:52:51,301 --> 00:52:53,971 really be there with any kind of 807 00:52:54,037 --> 00:52:56,273 strength and power were it not for 808 00:52:56,606 --> 00:53:01,312 particular people like Oren Tikkanen or 809 00:53:01,378 --> 00:53:02,913 Melvin Kangas who made a 810 00:53:02,979 --> 00:53:06,750 Who made a choice, didn't have to have to go in 811 00:53:06,816 --> 00:53:09,553 this direction. But they decided to 812 00:53:10,186 --> 00:53:13,791 draw on their their Finnish heritage to 813 00:53:13,857 --> 00:53:16,627 make something and and not to do it in 814 00:53:16,693 --> 00:53:21,432 a moldy, antiquarian way. 815 00:53:21,498 --> 00:53:23,833 But they do it in a way that draws on 816 00:53:24,100 --> 00:53:26,636 and respects the past and invokes it, 817 00:53:26,937 --> 00:53:29,640 but also engages with with the present 818 00:53:29,706 --> 00:53:33,978 and is infused with their own sense of 819 00:53:34,044 --> 00:53:37,047 of who they are within their larger 820 00:53:37,447 --> 00:53:40,117 community. And Henry Glass a 821 00:53:40,183 --> 00:53:43,120 folklorists describes tradition as that 822 00:53:43,186 --> 00:53:46,990 that part of the past that we can 823 00:53:47,324 --> 00:53:49,293 engage in the present with a mind to 824 00:53:49,359 --> 00:53:51,896 the future? And another great 825 00:53:51,962 --> 00:53:53,497 folklorist, the Swedish folklorist 826 00:53:53,563 --> 00:53:55,199 Barbara Kline, who did a lot of work 827 00:53:55,265 --> 00:53:59,069 with Swedish Americans, produced a book 828 00:53:59,135 --> 00:54:01,505 on folk art, the subtitle Swedish Folk 829 00:54:01,571 --> 00:54:03,340 Art, the subtitle of which was All 830 00:54:03,406 --> 00:54:04,774 Tradition is change. 831 00:54:06,509 --> 00:54:10,280 So it's it's a moving target. 832 00:54:12,916 --> 00:54:16,253 You have written a tune about Snake River 833 00:54:16,319 --> 00:54:19,789 and also about a lady who lives along the Snake River. 834 00:54:20,557 --> 00:54:23,526 Yeah I composed a couple of schottisches 835 00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:28,431 Keep the Snake River name going 836 00:54:29,032 --> 00:54:31,701 I named the first one for Snake River 837 00:54:31,835 --> 00:54:36,707 And the second one for my dear wife, Elsi. Elsi Schottische 838 00:54:36,773 --> 00:54:38,775 Alright maybe we better play those two. 839 00:54:38,942 --> 00:54:40,944 While Helmer relaxes there. 840 00:54:44,614 --> 00:54:47,951 (Guitar and fiddle music) 841 00:56:38,361 --> 00:56:40,363 (Owl hooting) 58202

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