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(Birds chirping)
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(Wind howling)
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The UP still hangs on out there,
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isolated between
the cold northernmost
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Great Lakes. A remote outpost
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geographically and
culturally separate
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from mainstream
America, stitched with
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Writers like Ernest Hemingway, John
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Voelker, Phil Caputo and Jim Harrison
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have celebrated
mystical healing powers
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of the peninsula's wilderness.
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Those who know it say it's God's
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country.
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(Forboding music)
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The UP is a hard place.
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But the indigenous Anishinaabe and
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European immigrants have survived.
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The psychology of
the peninsula people
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is embedded deep in this ethnic mix.
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For two centuries, America has grown
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from indigenous peoples and Europeans
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as the peninsula dramatically
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illustrates the indigenous peoples.
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Ojibway, Pottawatomie and Odawa
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together called the
Anishinaabe, are on
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five reservation communities through
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their drum stories, food ways and
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rituals. The Anishinaabe
maintain their
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traditional cultures.
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(Native American drum songs)
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Anishinaabe cultural traditions are
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still experiencing a revival, but
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without continued immigration, old
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world European traditions are fading.
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Almost all of Europe blends into her
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mining towns in the western counties.
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The first miners were indigenous
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people. But in the 1870s Cornishmen,
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the expert industrial
miners performed
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the groundwork for
huge copper and iron
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mines. By 1920, there
were 32 languages
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spoken on the streets of Calumet that
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is now only an historic copper mining
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town. Irish, French, Canadians,
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Italians and Croatians
set up their own
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immigrant language
Catholic parishes in
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the northern and western counties.
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Finnish Americans are the largest of
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the European ancestry groups.
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French Canadians
settled in the sawmill
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towns of L'anse, Baraga, Chassell,
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and Lake Linden.
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(Fiddle and guitar playing)
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Other ancestry groups
include Belgians,
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Poles and Bohemians, Austrians and
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Armenians, Greeks, Italians, Danes,
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Swedes, Germans, Czechs, Croatians,
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Serbs, Lithuanians and Montenegrins,
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Luxembourgers, Slovenians.
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These cultures are interspersed
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throughout the Upper
Peninsula, making
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a colorful rainbow, and each
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contributes its own distinctive
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coloring.
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This deep and rich cultural
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heritage has attracted prominent
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folklorists from across the nation.
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Alan Lomax toured the UP in the 1930s
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and on what would now be considered
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primitive equipment, filmed ordinary
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folks in their own homes and front
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porches to document ancestral music
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In Champion and Baraga.
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I found French
ballad singers who still
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enjoy Ballenfast
that lasted all night
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It was Alan Lomax who gave us this
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authentic film portrayal of the early
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music.
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Richard Dorson, the great
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pioneering folklorist who studied the
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traditions of the Upper Peninsula in
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the late 1940s, said, "The abundance
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and diversity I found still stagger
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me." Professor Jim
Leary, a folklorist,
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has documented the upper Midwest
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diverse musical traditions since the
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1970s, leading to
many publications and
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media productions.
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And Michael Loukinen, a cultural
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sociologist filmmaker
with deep ties to
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the UP, has made over a dozen
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documentaries about the upper
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peninsula's traditional
cultures, some
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of which feature ethnic music.
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(Harmonica music)
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🎵For he's a rough and ready guy
A lumberjack is he.🎵
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🎵Good old rough and ready guy
That's the we he's got to be.🎵
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(Group of stringed instruments,
singing in foreign language)
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(Fiddle music)
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(Native American drum songs)
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(Guitar music, female
singing in Foreign language)
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(Kantele Music)
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Well, in the late 19th century in
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Finland, the button
accordion was being
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circulated into the
country along with
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with new dance tunes from Continental
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Europe, couples dances, new couple
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dances, the polka, the waltz, The
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schottische or jenkka, or sometimes
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Rhinelander as
Finns, Finns would call
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it. And so all of those things were
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happening at a time when Finns came
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over to to the copper country.
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Wasn't just Finns by themselves.
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There were Chippewa
Indians, there were
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Cornish and Irish, there were French
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Canadians, there were Croatians and
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Slovenians, and there were Italians.
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And those people all had their their
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music as well.
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They might have house parties,
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especially what
happened also in lumber
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camps when people would be getting
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together on a Saturday
night, you know,
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you'd have people of different ethnic
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mixtures bringing together what they
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knew in common, some kind of step
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dancing or some kind of a waltz or
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polka, one thing or another.
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And, you know,
then after a while, you
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get people who intermarry some.
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And there are all these exchanges of
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tradition. And then there's music
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that's coming in from the outside.
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So by the 20s, there
was powerful radio
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kind of getting out and
coming into the area
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Oh yeah Bashful Joe hey?
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He used to sing on the radio in the
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morning.
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We'll have a musical roundup.
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We'll have a barrel of fun.
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For you know you
can't go wrong with a
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good old Western song.
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And we'll put the blues on the run.
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That was Bashful Joe's theme song.
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Yeah.
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People here began
to listen to kind of
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the sweet jazz of
the era being exposed
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to that and playing it or mixing it
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with some of their local traditions.
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So there was a for example, in the
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1930s, there was a barn dance.
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I think they were
called something like
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Curley Bradley in
his Hard Cider Boys.
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Curley Bradley was a Slovak.
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And there are a
couple of Italians and
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a couple of Finns in the band dressed
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up as cowboys.
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You have all of
that stuff that that's
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happening, this is
an area that in some
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ways is is isolated
and is a kind of a
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unique mixture of whoever it was that
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that came here and different kind of
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micro locations.
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But it also is
connected to the larger
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world and there
are areas of that that
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seep in.
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This is the one tool
that my father ever
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gave me that I think I have almost
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mastered.
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Just before the Finns really came in
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large numbers, the
largest foreign born
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population in the Keweenaw area were
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Irish. A lot of Germans.
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And then there was the big flood of
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Finn after 1880.
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The Finns depending
on what their their
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their own personal interests were, if
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it was religion or temperance or
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progressive politics
or whatever, they
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would form an organization and they
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would build a hall.
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That was true all
over immigrant halls.
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Put up a workers hall or a temperance
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hall, or maybe the
Italians had a hall
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where they could play music and get
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together, or they could have house
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parties and and at those areas or
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events, it might be predominantly one
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ethnic group or another.
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But musicians are always attracted to
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other musicians, and so they learn
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songs and tunes from them.
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Sometimes they pick
up new instrumental
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techniques or new instruments.
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And so all of this
music, you know, all
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of their folk music came together as
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people started to get to know each
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other. The Italians, of course, there
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were no recordings.
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So all music to be enjoyed had to be
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produced live.
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And the one of the most popular
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kinds of music was brass band music.
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Every ethnic lodge
had a brass band of
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one size or another.
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Of course, there were a lot more men
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that were coming at first than women.
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And so there was a lot of competition
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to gain the attention of the young
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Finnish women by all of these young
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men. A young Finnish
fellow in Calumet
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could not hope to
get the attention of
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a young Finnish woman if he did not
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have the uniform
of his organization's
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brass band to strut around in.
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One of the things
that I noticed when I
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started searching
out the older Finnish
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American musicians was that they all
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love playing Slovenian polkas.
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And I also noticed that some of the
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Slovenian accordion players and even
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some of the Croatian
tamburitza players
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would sometimes
attempt to sing a song
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in Finnish. It became
a great mishmash,
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no matter what your last name was or
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where it originated.
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If you were going
to play at a wedding
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reception, you had to be able to play
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the Slovenian polka.
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Maricka Pegla.
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🎵Oj Marička Pegla,
Pegla, Pegla, Pegla🎵
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🎵Oj Marička Pegla,
Pegla, Pegla, Pegla🎵
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🎵Oj Marička Pegla,
Pegla, Pegla, Pegla🎵
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🎵Oj Marička Pegla,
Pegla, Pegla, Pegla🎵
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In the bigger cities where there are
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these ethnic enclaves that perhaps
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there's there's more of a boundary
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between the various
ethnic communities
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and people don't play each other's
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music all that much.
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But here everybody was playing
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everybody's music.
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And and I think it
developed a kind of
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Upper Michigan
style of of traditional
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music.
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In Hancock, Michigan,
there was a really
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remarkable Finnish,
American guy named
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Rudy Kemppa and he promoted Finnish
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dances. He collected Finnish 78 RPM
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records with with Finnish,
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Finnish-American musicians.
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And he had a long standing radio
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program that went
on into the nineteen
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seventies.
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(Old Accordion music)
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Viola Turpeinen was was born
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in 1909, in Champion
her folks were Finnish
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immigrants.
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At a young age, she
started to play the
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kaks-rivinen, the two row button
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accordion.
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The piano accordion,
by the time she was
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in her early teens,
was sweeping across
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the country. It offered a lot more
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possibilities for a
player because you
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could play in any key.
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So she began to play that.
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And when she was
a teenager, there was
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a guy named John or
Jukka Rosendahl who
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came touring through.
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He had one of these on one of these
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kind of variety shows that that would
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go on in Finnish halls.
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And he was a kind
of an impresario, but
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also a good musician on violin and
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banjo. While in the
Iron River area, he
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heard Viola Turpeinen playing and was
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just dazzled by her and in the early
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1920s, got permission
from her parents
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for her to go on on tour with him.
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And she was extremely well received.
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(Old accordion music)
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In 1979, when I
started to do the work,
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she'd been dead for 20 years, but
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people were full of memories for her.
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Some said she took a sauna right here
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or she always used
to come to our house
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and she liked rice pudding.
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Others said, I found
several people who
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claimed that either they had an
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accordion that was hers or that she
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played an accordion that they had.
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So she was like a like a saint of
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sorts. She remains very much in the
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memories, in the hearts of Finnish
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Americans.
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(Accordion music and singing)
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Art was definitely a
man of the people,
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you know, someone who worked in the
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woods, ran a little tavern, piano
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accordion player, if people wanted to
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hear some music,
he'd come around from
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behind the bar and
play it, play a few
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tunes.
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For working people.
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Sunday afternoons is the time for
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sociability, because when you were at
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his place, it wasn't like being in a
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concert venue.
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It was like being in a in someone's
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home. You know, there was all of this
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kind of direct
interaction and teasing
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back and forth
and a lot of stuff that
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you might call natural.
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He was very integrated into his his
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community.
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Polkas, schottiches,
rattikas I always
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feature them and enjoy playing them.
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And that still gives me pleasure to
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play them. And so that's the way it's
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been all through my life.
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so I have three students
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they have been with me
for a number of years now.
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going on the 4th year and hopefully,
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they'll stay with it and
carry on the Finnish
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polkas, schottisches and
radhikas that I enjoy playing
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and it seems like it's coming
back pretty strong again
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and I've survived 50
years of this kind of music
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and I'm sure that it'll
stay around for some time
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From now on.
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(Accordion ensamble)
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Sunday morning they
gather around the TV
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And watch that Finland Calling
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Suomi Kutsuu
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This is Finland Calling
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America's only Finnish
language program
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Featuring the sights
and sounds of Finland
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Including the Finnish devotional
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Here's the host of Finland
Calling Carl Pellonpaa.
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No one did more to promote Finnish
American music than Carl Pellonpaa
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Who broadcasted on
his weekly TV program
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Suomi Kutsuu or Finland Calling
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Carl organized dances in
Finnish towns throughout the UP
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Where he video recorded
music and dancing
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And played it on his TV program
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He set a world record for the
longest running TV variety show
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Hosted by the same person.
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53 years every Sunday
from 1962 to 2015
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Alright polka time,
let's do it. 1, 2, 3
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🎵Someone stop the Kishka,
someone stole the kishka🎵
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🎵Someone stop the Kishka,
from the butcher shop. Hey.🎵
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🎵Who stole the kishka? Who stole
the kishka?Better call the cops.🎵
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Oren Tikknen is an
amazing contemporary
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yooper. His his
mother is from Missouri,
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his dad is a Finn from the Upper
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Peninsula. His dad
worked in the mines.
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You know, he went off to school.
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Rock and roll was happening, the folk
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revival was happening,
and all sorts of
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musical things were happening.
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And he was interested in all of those
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and absorbed them.
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And he decided to
come home, come back
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to the UP.
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And instead of being like a lot of
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folkies from the upper
Midwest who look
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to the South or the West for
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inspiration, he
decided to look around.
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And what Oren has done then is, is to
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band together with other folks in the
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region who are
interested in sustaining
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elements of the old time music, but
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also doing it and in new ways,
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sometimes doing newer songs.
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And and he's done a
good deal more than
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that. But he he, more than any other
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person, has been
the the driving force
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in sustaining and being a kind of an
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anchor for in a resource for Finnish
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American music in the UP.
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(Guitar solo)
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There's a network
too between the Upper
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Peninsula and
Minneapolis and the Iron
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Range of Minnesota in particular.
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We should mention the Kisarit Finnish
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dancers. Oh, yes.
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Al had become the accordionists for
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that group in the
Twin Cities, but then
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when Dennis came along
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And then I was out playing for the
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Kisarit we started
doing still continue
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doing parties and playing music
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together. And then the band began to
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form and eventually Ralph Tuttila
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joined us. And we
had a bass string bass
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player named Margaret.
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Oren would take it
as one when he could.
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I can remember
the first time I got up
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and played with those guys was
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when they were still called
the Keskilannen Pelimoni
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The Midwestern Players
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Dennis, Al, Oren
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I think Margaret Norland
was the bass player
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With them already.
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Who had been with Kisarit too
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All these people go back and fourth
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Or they are in both groups
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And Oren says hey Tutilla
you got your mandolin?
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Get up here.
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Wow he's asking me to
play on stage with these guys.
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(Traditional Finnish
music in foreign language)
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(Accordion music)
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Al was a descendant of Finns on the
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Iron Range, a great piano accordion
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player, and he and Oren made a series
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of wonderful recordings of classic
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Finnish American tunes.
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I ran into an old
friend from Michigan
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State University, a
guy from the Virgin
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Islands met him on the street.
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He said Oren Tikkanen.
And then I said,
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Evan, Harrigan. We started visiting
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back and forth. And
and then one night
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in 1970, he said,
come on over Saturday
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night and bring your guitar.
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I've got a special treat for you.
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Wouldn't tell me what it was.
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And the treat was
his boss, a guy named
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Al Reko who played the accordion and
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sang in Finnish.
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And we started
playing together and and
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as you know, we're still doing that.
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And it just sounded right.
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My dad was a bartender.
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He bought a bar or an accordion from
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one of the customers and brought it
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home and says, well, you could read
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music now, teach yourself the
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accordion. So I did.
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And that's where it started for me.
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Dennis Halmi moved to the Twin Cities
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about that time and started having
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these wonderful
house parties where Al
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and Dennis would
bring their accordions
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and they would say, we need Oren on
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guitar. And oh, we have some times
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there 3401 Park Avenue south.
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Yeah,
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I'm very fortunate
that a couple of old
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pals of mine from
the Twin Cities, I've
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been to Finland with them a number of
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times playing music.
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I've been all over North America
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playing music with them, Al Reko the
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accordion and Dennis Halmi.
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And not only that, but these younger
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people that I have
been forcing to play
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traditional music.
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00:29:12,951 --> 00:29:16,020
Belinda Mattfolk from Dollar Bay, who
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plays plays the flute beautifully and
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and does really well on the drums.
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And Matthew Durocher.
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I'll tell you, if I were if I was one
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of those church
guys, I would say I am
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blessed. And if I
don't say it, you can
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say it for me.
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(Accordion music)
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I cannot overestimate
the importance of
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Al Rekko in my life.
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He he's just had an
enormous influence
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on me. He's one of
the sweetest people
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I've ever met in my life.
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He's virtually unflappable and has
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dealt with all kinds of hard hardship
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in his life. This is
one of the one of
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the songs that I learned from him.
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I learned an awful lot from him.
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And then what I do
is I turn around and
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I make these other guys learn it.
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1, 2, 3.
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🎵Talvella Talikkalan Markkinoila🎵
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🎵Talvella Talikkalan Markkinoila🎵
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(Old world music in foreign language)
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(Trombone solo)
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(Old world music in foreign language)
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The Aura Community
Hall that dates from
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the 1920s there were all those Finns,
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many of whom were
were mining families
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from the copper
country, who who bought
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cheap farmland up there in northern
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Baraga County. And by the 1920s, they
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wanted a community hall.
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And there was
somebody that had an old
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hall in another part
of the county that
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said they could have it if they would
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dismantle it. And so a crew of
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community people went and they took
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that hall apart and
they moved it up to
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where it is now and set it up.
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And it's still operating as it's a
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00:32:18,303 --> 00:32:21,806
nongovernmental
community based Finn hall.
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00:32:22,473 --> 00:32:25,911
The jamboree, it started apparently
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As a Finnish more
of a Finnish folk music
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Event.
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But it's all inclusive
so nowadays it's
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A lot of bluegrass and old timey
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Which holds it together
and keeps it going because
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There would not be enough
Finnish music anymore to
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To have a big 2 day festival.
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00:32:49,033 --> 00:32:52,136
Ok let's do it, how
fast do you like to do it?
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(Old world Finnish
music in foreign language)
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(Various music genres mixed together)
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The Finns tend to
be a very ceremonial
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people, they take
things with a lot of
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00:34:30,535 --> 00:34:34,172
seriousness and dignity, unlike we
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Americans, Finns and Creoles.
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That's what I refer to all of us as.
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00:34:39,177 --> 00:34:42,013
Yooper creoles.
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Three of us are half Finnish and half
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00:34:45,450 --> 00:34:48,086
something else.
Norden is half Scottish
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and half Norwegian.
And so we we are a
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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)
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