Tickets 27,50 / 22,50 €

The ten-strong Les Fleurs Noires is an orchestra of Argentinian and French musicians that defines its genre as 'tangos aumentados' – tango in new dimensions. The group gave its first performance in Finland in autumn 2025, wowing an international audience of music professionals at the WOMEX Worldwide Music Expo event in Tampere.

Les Fleurs Noires ('black flowers), which consists of female musicians only, creates new, fresh interpretations of the male-predominated tango tradition from Argentina. Tango music with its diverse roots takes on new timbers and forms of expression in the hands of Andrea Marsili, an Argentinian composer and pianist. Influences from other tone worlds are also included: experimental music, post-minimalism and jazz.

The audience can expect a unique, sensitive but intensive concert experience, in which two visiting soloists complement the orchestra: the strong interpretations of vocalist Mandy Lerouge and the rich rhythms of percussionist Vanesa García will add their unique spices to the bandoneon harmonica, piano and string instruments.

Duration 1 h 30 min, incl. intermission

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Tickets 15 €

To celebrate the Jazz Finland 100 anniversary year, the Finnish Jazz Federation together with percussionist and band leader Teppo Mäkynen has got together a supergroup for the tour to perform new arrangements of the pearls of Finnish jazz music. This group composed of different generations of musicians uses the sounds and rhythms of electronic music, rhythm 'n' blues and rap in its expression, linking the history of Finnish jazz to modern times. Central to the concert will be the joy of making and experiencing music, bolstered by the band's energetic expression.

Teppo Mäkynen, percussions
Maja Mannila, vocals, keyboard
Timo Lassy, saxophone
Mikko Antila, vibraphone
Kaisa Mäensivu, bass

_{In 2026, it will be 100 years since jazz symbolically arrived in Finland with the ship Andania. The year thus marks a historic centenary celebration for Finnish jazz: Jazz in Finland 100. The anniversary highlights Finnish jazz and its artists both in Finland and abroad, celebrating jazz as part of Finland’s cultural heritage. The Jazz in Finland 100 campaign is coordinated by the Finnish Jazz Federation.}

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Tickets 32,50/25 €

Sello Hall welcomes the top names of Swedish jazz! Viktoria Tolstoy, a beloved Swedish singer, will perform with pianist Jacob Karlzon in a warm-hearted concert that resounds with trust built through long cooperation and nuanced swing.

Who We Are deals with time, change and continuity: how the world changes and how music can travel with you, comforting and renewing you. Tolstoy's warm, delicate and expressive vocals combine with Karlzon's rich piano sounds. The musical experience is intimate, always new and surprising.

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The Nutcracker, the most enchanting jazz fairy tale of Christmas, which sold out several venues in the past years, is coming again! The storyteller is Anna Airola, the music is provided by the UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra.

The UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra plays Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s jazz arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece, The Nutcracker. Beloved actress Anna Airola brings the story to life and reads the fairy tale written by E.T.A. Hoffmann about the Christmas night adventure of the Nutcracker and the Mouse King. Note! The fairy tale will be read in Finnish.

Glittering winter forests, an enchanted marzipan castle, toys that miraculously come alive… The Nutcracker Tale is full of magic and exciting twists! The plot of The Nutcracker, one of Tchaikovsky’s most famous and acclaimed ballets, is based on E.T.A. Hoffman’s Christmas story. The ballet was premiered in December 1892 at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, and in 1960 Ellington and Strayhorn arranged and recorded their own interpretation of the beloved piece. The jazz adaptation has in recent years become a UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra’s Christmas tradition, which is now spiced up with a fairy tale.

Let yourself be carried away by the fairy tale – and jazz!

Doors open 30 minutes before the showtime. Duration c. 70 min, no intermission. The concert is suitable for the whole family, but especially with the smallest concertgoers, we recommend preparing for loud volumes with earmuffs or plugs.

Anna Airola (b. 1994) is a popular and award-winning actress hailing from Kokkola. Airola, who graduated from the Theatre Academy in 2022, has been chosen as the Best TV Actress of the Year and awarded with the Kultainen Venla prize for her role as Oona in Yle’s Aikuiset series. Airola, who grew up in a musical family, sings in the Ykspihlajan kino-orkesteri and has played tenor horn as well.

UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra: great achievements and mastery in jazz since 1975!Throughout the decades, UMO has been at the forefront of Finnish jazz. This multi-award-winning ensemble – recipient of the Yrjö and Emma awards and a Grammy nominee – has shared the stage with international jazz legends as well as the brightest stars of the Finnish music scene. With a distinguished discography of over 60 albums, Helsinki’s own “jazz city orchestra” performs across Finland, reaching 35,000 listeners through more than 100 concerts annually. At the heart of UMO is a commitment to new music. The orchestra’s versatile repertoire fearlessly pushes boundaries, from jazz and soulful grooves to classical fusion. www.umohelsinki.fi

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Tickets 37,50 €

Jazz Sabbath is a jazz trio that plays new jazz arrangements of Black Sabbath songs. Although the band presents itself as a jazz trio founded in 1968 and the original authors of the tracks later made famous by Black Sabbath. Helmed by Grammy-winning pianist Adam Wakeman (Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne since 2004), Jazz Sabbath explores the boundaries between jazz and the songs that defined heavy metal, revisiting existing jazz riffs and discovering new ones.

Whether or not you believe their wild backstory, with three albums high in the Billboard Jazz Charts, sold-out shows worldwide, and rave reviews in both jazz and rock media, Jazz Sabbath is quickly making its way (back) to the top of the jazz scene.

Adam Wakeman - piano
Jacque t'Fone - bass
Juan Take - drums

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