Vellamo

June 24, 2014

Our new Trad album is out! And other chilly summer greetings from Finland!

Posing in our garden with Ahku – Pias moms dog who moved in with us!

Gigging, gardening, community work and tour planning is how we spend our summer here in Finland!

Sat June 28th we will play the release gig for our new Trad. album in Kahvila Saha followed by a series of concerts in different summer festivals and events like Kaustinen Folk Music Festival, Täydenkuun tärskyt and Vaasa Picnic.

You can order the new (as well as the old) album from CD Baby or just drop us a line at vellamo.band(a)gmail.com and we’ll send you one! You can also listen to it on Spotify Vellamo – Trad or even better – come to one of our gigs and get your copy there!

So summer is here even though you would not necessarily believe it as the midsummer temperatures have been around +10 celcius (about 50 F)… There is also a lot of gardening to do as we became proud home owners with a lovely garden!

Another project that keeps us occupied is a theatre/music show Muistojen sävel (Tone of the Memories) that we do for and in cooperation with people who live in old folks homes. The program will consist of scenes that portray the old times in Finland and songs that were/are important to people who were born in early 1900s. We will be touring in old folks homes with the program in July.

Greetings from the sunny island of Tankar where we launched our gig summer in Finland! Here is the means we used to get our gear there – our beloved boat Hilla and an old milk carriage plus some serious human muscle!

Then we will take a little escape from the fall and start our first tour of Europe ever scheduled from late August to early October! This far we have gigs lined up in England, Ireland, Germany, Belgium and Sweden – hopefully more to come!

After the European tour we will concentrate on recording new material and hopefully we’ll have enough of that by the end of the year for a new record!

August 28, 2013

We are proud to give you our first music video!!!

Big news!

We are so happy to tell the world about our new music video that is directed, filmed and edited by Pasi Räsänen 2013 – enjoy!

Tässäpä on sellainen päräys että huh huh, Pasi Räsänen on onnistunut erinoimaisesti vangitsemaan palan laulun sielusta tähän videoon!

Ohjaus, kuvaus ja leikkaus/
Directed, filmed and edited by Pasi Räsänen 2013.

Vellamon ensialbumia saatavilla mm. seuraavista nettikaupoista/
Debut album available at:
http://cdon.fi/musiikki/vellamo/vella…
http://www.levykauppax.fi/artist/vell…

Vellamo:
Pia Leinonen-laulu/ vocals
Joni Tiala-kitarat/ guitars

+erikoisvieras/ special guest:

Ken Anderson-basso, rummut/ bass, drums

August 27, 2013

The most awesome August ever!

Hi you all!

We bid the bittersweet farewell to our best of friends Rebecca Hall and Ken Anderson aka Hungrytown after the crazy and fun Going North Tour that took us all the way from Helsinki to Tromso and back! Not only did they headline almost all of our 16 concerts but also they packed the Vellamobile, lived their life to the fullest in the backseat, took obscene amounts of pictures, worked as our tutors in the rough world of folkmusic, did the sound and shot a lot of Vellamo live performance videos!

Thousand thanks for all the great venues that had us, all those great people who showed up at the concerts and bought CD:s – You are the BEST!

Here is Oman kullan silmät, Finnish traditional tune, for you delivered by Vellamo and the band!

July 10, 2013

Going North Tour 2013!

Hyviä uutisia:

Upea Hungrytown Amerikan Yhdysvalloista on tulossa Suomeen elokuuksi ja soitamme yhdessä useita keikkoja Going North – kiertueen tiimoilta: tulkaahan kuulemaan ihmettä ja kummaa!

Lauantai 3.8.2013 – klo 19

Kahvila Saha

Folk iltamat joissa Vellamon lisäksi esiintyy Hungrytown ja Kari Mäkinen

Laikunlava, puutarhakatu 1, 33100 Tampere (kartta)

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June 19, 2012

Walk-in closet recordings!

We recorded some tunes in our walk-in closet the other day (6.6.2012) and now they are out there in soundcloud for all the world to hear. Just go, listen and comment!

“Suljen”

Words and music by Pia Leinonen.
Arrangement by Vellamo.

Live home recording with few overdubs added later.