Puhti “Karjalan neito“

Puhti is a unique two womens folk music and dance group that gets its inspiration from the Karelian culture. The music graduate Anna-Mari Kivimaki plays accordion and the choreographer Reetta-Kaisa Pirhonen dances and both of them sing. Puhti is a mixture of crazy hurly-burly, at times sensitizing, happy and bathetic cooperation of a dancer and a musician. The group founded in the year 2001 from the initiative of the accordionist Maria Kalaniemi, brings new perspectiv