Jazz Finland Live

Sibelius museum (Piispankatu 17)
Tickets 15–22 € at Tiketti.

Selma Savolainen, known for her unprejudiced music making and impressive use of voice, will present her band Horror Vacui on the Wednesday evening of the Turku Jazz Festival. Selma Savolainen has been praised as a singer who has raised Finnish vocal jazz to a new level. In addition to modern jazz, her English-language songs include influences from an alternative singer-songwriter style. The artist has been awarded with Pori Jazz’s Rising Talent recognition and uses her voice as an equal instrument among others. In Savolainen’s compositions, each player and instrument has its own place and star moment.

Selma Savolainen – song
Toomas Keski-Säntti – piano
Eero Tikkanen – double bass
Okko Saastamoinen – drums
Tomi Nikku – trumpet
Max Zenger – clarinets

Rica Bar (Kristiinankatu 5)
Free entry

Soulful saxophonist-composer Adele Sauros opens the doors of jazz music to the students of the Turku Conservatory during the festival week. On Wednesday evening, you can enjoy the fruits of Adele’s and the students’ work at a free concert at Rica Bar.

Jazz continues late into the evening with relaxed jams, where the festival’s performers, music students and the audience meet in whirlwinds of improvisation.

Age limit 18.

Open event