Brages spelmanslag & Brage folkdansare: Kvällsspel i augusti – Music for an evening in August

Brage’s folk music ensemble and the Brage folk dance group return now for the fifth time to Vuotori Square. The musicians and dancers perform Finland-Swedish folk music and dances. The folk music ensemble’s M.O. is to perform Finland-Swedish folk music. The artistic director of the folk music ensemble is Henrica Westerholm . Brage’s folk dance group consists of dancers of various ages. A distinctive feature of the dance group is the versatile use of minuets, polskas, hambo, and singing games in their programmes. Folk dance master Eivor Wallinvirta has developed the repertoire from simple sequences of dances, one after the other, into complete programmes. There song, dance and music equally depict events in life, including celebrations and festivals, as they were in the past. The Föreningen Brage association in Helsinki was founded in 1906 to preserve and nurture Finland-Swedish folk culture through song and dance, and later through traditional costumes, as well. Brage is a dynamic association that lives up to its original objectives: to combine the academic and the practical, and to actively encourage the practice of Finland-Swedish folk culture.