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Welcome to
F.C.S.P.
Fitchburg, MA
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This website is dedicated to all the activities at
The Finnish Center at Saima
Park.
Here, you will be able to find information about the organization, our
activities, external and internal cultural events such as festivals, dances and
art shows to name a few, meetings, and last but not least summer and winter
sports events.
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Click on the Function Hall picture to go to
the "Beautiful Saima" page, where you can visit the park in a
picture cavalcade!
Please visit also our
Winter Wonderland - and see what we are up to during the snowy
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Thank you to
Cabot Creamery
Cabot
Cheese of Vermont
for their generosity in donating
cheese for our Kesajuhla event
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Upcoming Events |
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June 28 & 29,
2008 - Saturday - Sunday
102nd New England
Finnish Summer Festival
(see below)
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August 23, 2008
- Saturday - 8:00am to 10:30am
Pannukakku/Finnish
Pancake Breakfast
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September 21, 2008 - Sunday - Nordic
Marketplace/Tori
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October 18, 2008 - Saturday
Catered Dinner-Dance featuring the
National Finlandia Foundation's Performers of the Year
Brent Buswell and
Bert Stromholm
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June 28 & 29
102nd New England
Finnish Summer Festival
Summer Festival Concert
Saturday, June 28th at 7:30 p.m.
Musical group Sillanpää from Finland
Jemina and
Selina Sillanpää have been studying music since they were still in
kindergarten. Their formal studies took place in Lahti Music School but
through the years they played and studied folk music at home and at
festivals and courses. They have always been interested in dance and
theatre as well as music, and at the moment Selina is studying musical
theatre at Lahti University of Applied Sciences and Jemina is studying
acting at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki. Jemina has also been acting
in TV and in two long movies that premiered in the fall of 2006.
Seppo has been playing folk and country music since he was a teenager.
His first professional group was called Vanha Isäntä and during that
time he also worked as a studio musician and also as a visiting musician
for other bands such as Cumulus and Pihasoittajat. The first Seppo
Sillanpää solo recordings came out some ten years later after a period
of finishing studies of musicology, teaching music and several radio
jobs. The CDs Akustin Polska and Lamentarola led to the formation of a
new string band that played on biggest folk festivals in Finland in the
beginning of the 90s including backing up Peter Rowan at Kaustinen
1991.
The
next two Sillanpää albums featured children's music and Seppo's own
daughters Jemina and Selina as singers.
In
1995 Seppo began playing folk music with the girls as a trio and gave
some of the first concerts in USA during a radio survey trip to Ithaca
New York. The next two U.S. trips were actual concert tours; in the
summer of 1997 'The Sillanpää Family' played around in New York state.
In 1999 they recorded a new bilingual album called Moon Madness and soon
the "Moon Madness Tour" took the whole family to New England and New
York for 15 concerts including a 3 hour WVBR radio show Bound for Glory
in Ithaca and a video recording session at Fall Creek Studios, Ithaca.
The
trio has performed widely in the US. However, this will be their first
appearance at Saima Park.
This concert has been
made possible by the sponsorship of the
Fitchburg Cultural
Council, Finlandia Foundation national and Finland Society
Sunday, June 29th - 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
10:30 Summer Festival Fun Walk at
the Reipas Field
11:30 - 1:00 Chicken Barbecue
1:30 Cultural Program
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Readers Theater performance of a Finnish
play (translated and directed by Roy Helander)
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Revontulet folkdancers, accompanied by
Oivan Ilo
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Scandinavian vocal ensemble
Stämbandet
will do a program of Finnish songs
The festivities will also include
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Moomin stories for children
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saunavihta talk and demonstration
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Raivaaja Book table
Summer Festival Artist is Mark Grammel
Arctic sundaes after the Cultural Program
Telegram & Gazette Article
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Finnish
language course
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Rent
F.C.S.P. Function Hall or Ravintola / Sirkka Liukkonen pavilion for your
birthday, company outing, family reunion, wedding, etc. !!!
Click
[here] for more
information
or call (978) 343-9883, and select
mailbox #1
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For more info how to become a member of F.C.S.P. - click [here].
We now have an
electronic membership application form!
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More past events -
they are on a separate page!
Click on [this link]
to get there.
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