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Hurja Halla’s Riitti music awarded as best music video in Japan and in South Korea
Riitti music video (dir. Liisa Haapanen) is awarded as best music video in two music film festivals: Japan International Film Festival and Seoul Internation Short Film Festival. Hurja Halla is super honored! Congratulations to director & musician Liisa Haapanen, actress Heli Lyytikäinen, cinematographer Saara Karttunen and musician Janne Ojajärvi!
Hurja Halla’s song Rommi played on Australian radio show
Hurja Halla’s song Rommi has been played on Australian radio show Global Village Worldwide Music PBS. Melbourne based radio show focuses on acoustic world music. The full show can be found here: https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/global-village
Kansainvälisillä festivaaleilla palkittu joensuulainen Hurja Halla -duo yhdistää kansanmusiikissa harvinaisen sellon puhallinsoittimiin – ”Näen musiikin kuvina, tunnelmina ja tarinoina”, Liisa Haapanen sanoo (Karjalainen, 26.10.2022)
Joensuu based newspaper Karjalainen interviewed the members of Hurja Halla. Janne Ojajärvi and Liisa Haapanen discussed about their composition methods, instrumentation and about the music video Riitti. The full article (in Finnish) can be found here: https://www.karjalainen.fi/kulttuuri/kansainv%C3%A4lisill%C3%A4-festivaaleilla-palkittu-joensuulainen-hurja-halla-duo-yhdist%C3%A4%C3%A4-kansanmusiikissa-harvinaisen-sellon-puhallinsoittimiin-n%C3%A4en-musiikin-kuvina-tunnelmina-ja-tarinoina-liisa-haapanen-sanoo
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