Tampere

What is happening in a Finnish city that keeps producing jazz labels? We looked into how Tampere’s labels have learned not only to coexist, but to grow together.

Signe and Emmi U Quintet bring a dreamy night of jazz and beyond to Tampere’s stellar new music venue.

This year marks the centenary of the Finnish Civil War. My Brother’s Keeper, a new opera by Olli Kortekangas, focuses on the tragic wartime events in Tampere.

Since 2005, Black Motor has been a proudly local Tampere institution, making its own idiosyncratic way apart from the orthodox Helsinki scene.