Yes - this is exactly what you feel, when you arrive in this charming city. A city placed around lakes with never ending shades of green showing all respect for nature, that one can possibly imagine.

Your first point of contact for the festival is the Festival Office where you will find very helpful people, that give you all information necessary for feeling comfortable during your stay of the Festival. The ladies responsible for the festivals are Minna Kulmala (Festival Director pictured on the right) and Minna Plihtari (Public Relation)

Once you receive your program you will not know where to go first, as you are sourrounded by accordion music and well known faces from around the world.

Every year many accordionists are invited to take part in this mega-accordion happening - where this year thousands of people are expected, with numbers being based on figures from pre-paid tickets to all the offered events.

If the weather permits, one just has to walk around this beautiful small city you will maybe get a bit surprised walking passed yound and older people still keeping to their Finnish tradition and showing it with pride: such as these two ladies walking through the park with their tradtional dresses.

Accordion Music is coming to your ear and so one stops. Just for a second to continue your way through the city - but no, one stops for longer, as the next piece is even nicer than the one you have just heard... and the next one too. So - you will take a seat and continue your way through the city a little bit later on....

This is the City Hall Festivity Building where birthday events, marriages, meetings and other Festivities are held. A very old house with a flair of old times inside:

Wednesday's Program was: