King bass Matti Salminen, who has already been a crowd pleaser at dance stage gigs, will be at the Ruissalo shipyard on August 14. at 3 pm accompanied by two charming colleagues. The "girls" are not background singers, but Mari Palo, one of our brightest sopranos, and mezzo-soprano Lilli Paasikivi, a fixed star of Finnish opera.
In addition to an impressive international opera career, all of them have a solid background in iskelmä music, which Palo and Paasikivi are now returning to publicly for the first time in decades. There will be fireworks that break genre boundaries from Merikanto to Mono, Topi Kärje to Badding. The performers are crowned by star pianist and incomparable show performer Jukka Nykänen, Petteri Iivonen, who has risen to the international top of violinists, and Eero Ignatius, a multi-talented double bass player.
