Samuli Karjalainen plays tin whistles, bamboo whistles and flutes, wooden whistles, guitar, vocals, bodhran and fiddle.
The brand new album "Crosscountry 50 km" is out!
You can get your own copy from here:
www.jukeboxshop.net
or
www.suomenkansanmusiikkiliitto.fi
or
Digelius Music
Address: Laivurinrinne 2, 00100 Helsinki FINLAND
e-mail: [email protected]
www.digelius.com
Eoin O'Neill writes about Samuli:
"I first met Samuli Karjalainen a few years ago when he started to visit us from Finland and play with myself and my musical partner Quentin Cooper. We had been playing music sessions around County Clare and Samuli arrived often to play with us in Brogans pub in Ennis.
In 2006/7 he moved to Ennis and became an important fixture in the music scene of County Clare. Besides joining in the sessions Samuli was in constant demand to do gigs with the local musicians. His diversity of music; the fact that besides his obvious whistle playing he was a subtle and great guitar player with a total empathy for the music and the musician he accompanied. He also just happens to be one of my favourite bodhran players!
Besides joining Quentin and myself on stage he struck up a fine sound and toured with Matin O'Brien a concertina player from East Clare and Orla Harrington a fiddler of the highest calibre. He also performed with Andrew McNamara on accordeon and Dympna O'Sullivan two of the most respected musicians in the tradition. When he released his recent album I played it in a radio show I present on Clare FM and there was a major reaction to these beautiful compositions featuring mainly whistle and harmonium. Irish people liked and understood this music and it was not long before Samuli's music was regularily heard on Irish radio, and even if people had difficulty with his name, they knew they loved the music of 'the lad from Finland'."