Top Best Must Visit Summer Festivals in Finland
Top Best Must Visit Summer Festivals in Finland: If you are planning a trip to Finland then you must take note that it is also very popular for hosting craziest events such as Wife Carrying, Air Guitar Playing and Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships. By seeing all these events you can say that Finns are a bit crazy when it comes to competitions and events. Though these events don’t make much sense still you will have the greatest fun there.
If joy, colors, craziness, happy faces and celebrations are your thing, then you must better take your trip onto the Finnish Bandwagon. Festivals in Finland are really going to give you the best experience of a lifetime, one you wouldn’t undeniably want to miss!
So with the help of this article, we are going to tell you about the top best summer festivals or events in Finland, let’s get started….
Tuska Open Air Metal Festival
Tuska Open Air Metal Festival is popularly known as Tuska which is considered to be one of the largest and popular Finland metal Festival. The festival always that takes place every year in Helsinki, and the festival dates have constantly different from June to July. The festival draws the biggest crowds each year ever since it started in the year 1998. A number of prominent metal artists like Children Of Bodom, Ghosts, Opeth, Celtic Frost as well as various other artists come here to perform.
Juhannus/ Midsummer festival
Midsummer festival is a traditional Finnish festival that is popular as Juhannus. The festival takes place on a Saturday in the middle of June 20th and 26th with lots of celebration and drinking.
On this day at lakesides and by the sea bonfires are lit and the unmarried women who seek husbands bend over and look into a well naked to see their future husband’s reflection or else gather different flowers that are total of seven in order to place under their pillow so they can dream about their future husbands.
Midnight Sun Film Festival
Ever since the year 1986 the festival has been held in Finland in Sodankyla. This is considered to be one of the most popular summer festivals in Finland which is held in the second week of June. The festival hosts International as well as National films for 5 days without a break and runs around the clock. For the period of this time the sun can always be seen and there is no night at all.
Roger Corman, Terry Gilliam, Francis Ford Coppola, and several other biggest names in the film industry have also attended this festival.
Christmas and New Year
Finland is a home to Santa Claus so what can you expect from the country to celebrate the Christmas where Santa was born. Obviously, Christmas and New Years in Finland is celebrated with great enthusiasm and fun.
There, the Christmas season starts from Christmas eve and then conclude 13 days after Christmas for the duration of which there is plenty of events and activities held such as merrymaking, shopping, Sweets and gingerbreads, holiday drinks, winter activities and so on.
While for the duration of the New Year celebrations people experience the Northern Lights along with fireworks as well as plenty of celebration and other activities.
Flow Festival
This amazing contemporary festival combines the best of the music and arts. The program comprises of everything from gigs to film screenings as well as food and drinks. Flow Festival not only showcases the most noteworthy artists of the moment but also it lets the most promising emerging artists take over the stage and showcase their talent in front of a huge crowd.
Pori Jazz
Pori Jazz is considered to be one of the oldest and also an innovator of Finland music festivals which took place on July 1966. This festival is fully dedicated to Jazz music and it takes place in Kirjurinluoto in Pori city. If you are a jazz music lover then this is the place which is meant to be for you for sure.
Started with small popularity and event, the festival grew its fame with time and now it is considered to be one of the biggest as well as renowned music festival held in Europe.
There are many popular artists such as Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, Chick Corea and many others have come here and performed in this festival.
