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Only 3 nights separate us from the Loviisa's only music festival, Roots'n Boots.  As we said we are going to me media parter of this small but amazing festival this year aswell. For the occasion we got the chance to have a short talk with Ben Granfelt from Guitar Slingers. Would you like to introduce yourself to the listeners ? Hi, I’m Ben Granfelt, an happy old school musician. I founded Guitar slingers in the late 80s with Muddy Manninen  and it later evolved into me and Jore Marjarantas verison which went on and recorded fairly succesfull 3 studio albums in the -90s. Is this your first time at Roots'n Boots ? If it's so how are you feeling about ? Yes, it is the first time and all of us in the band are very much looking forward to this gig. I know it will be a party for happy music lovers. What can we expect from your performance ?  I was going to say all the hits but that’s a bit cliched isn’t it :-) we will play most of the songs we used to ...

It's almost Roots'n Boots time ! Again for the third time, this year we will cover again this small but amazing music festival that will take place in Loviisa, Ungerin on the 14th of July  For the occasion we have got to interview two bands that will be playing there, here is the first interview, we had a little talk with the Finnish country artist  Larry Peninsula. Hello, would you like to introduce yourself to the listeners ? Hello everyone! I'm Larry Peninsula, a country artist from Finland. I released my debut album "Country Music Only" in February.  I've been performing live and writing music for ten years. I'm a travelling musician, hopefully I'll get to play abroad more in the future. Is this your first time at Roots'n Boots ? If it's so how are you feeling about ? Yes it's my first time performing at Roots'n Boots. I'm really looking forward to playing at the festival and meeting new people. I hea...

Hello everybody, as last year also this year we are going to be at Roots'n Boots festival in Stromfors Ruukki next week. Thanks to this we had the chance to have a short chat with one of the band that will hit the stage, the band I'm talking about is the great South River Allstars band which will go on the stage as a first band at 13.00. Before starting with the interview I would like to remind you all that there is a lottery going on on our facebook page, and you have the possibility to win two tickets for the festival. Let's start with the interview :    Foto by Hannu Holmberg Hello, Would you like to introduce yourself to the listeners ? Hi, my name is Mika "Blues" Ikonen. I'm a bluesman from Porvoo. I was as about 12 years old when I picked up guitar for the first time - and I never let it down... Nowadays I sing and play guitar in a band named The South River Allstar with Pete Myllynen on drums and Markku Rauma on bass. Most o...

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Hello lovely people out there ! How are you ? We're fine and busy and hoping for a weekend of good weather ! We're here today with an amazing interview with the cuban artist Chicho that we had the chance to make during the days of the Peace Forum ( read more about that HERE ). A person of rare kindness, whose art is spiced with a dash of irony and permeated with a strong desire for peace. We loved it, and him for sure. But here you go. Hello and welcome ! Would you like to introduce yourself for our listeners\readers? Of course, my name is Román Emilio Pérez López,besto known as Chicho.  I am from Cuba, from the city of Santiago the Cuba,the birthplace of the Cuban Revolution. I´m in awe to meet  so many people, all the support they have provided to make this exhibition possible,it's fantastic. Can you tell us something about your formal education and your general background? I graduated fron the School of Fine Arts of Santiago de Cuba. For 20 years I worked as anim...

If we could have shared with the whole world the feeling that permeated our small town during the three days of Loviisa Peace Forum, the world could have lived, at least for three days, the dream or the hope of peace on earth. During the Peace Forum the boudaries of language, nationality, belief, were torn apart, replaced by love, understanding, friendship and a dash of curiosity for each other's background. As local radio we feel so blessed to have had the chance to follow step by step the events, working alongside the organizers, wonderful people whose tireless work brought in our town three days filled with events but mostly with love. The forum started on friday evening with the opening ceremony in Almintalo, saturday was a heartwarming, events-filled day, with the market of possibilities, music and dance in Laivasilta and the moving and impressing candle procession.  But pictures will tell you the story of the Loviisa Peace Forum 2016 better than I could ever do. ...

Sometimes dreams do come true. A few weeks ago our small, indipendent yet stubborn and enthusiast radio station was dreaming to have a written interview with Julian Marley for our web-site. So I contacted Julian Marley publicist, with very little hope in my heart for a positive outcome, considering what a huge name he is in the reggae and music world. At my surprise just the following day I had the kindest answer from the lovely and super professional Diane Podlock. She asked me for more details about how we usually showcase interviews and artists and finally she not only agreed on sending him my questions, but she also sent us a few songs for our playlist. Time went by and Julian was touring Europe in a tireless schedule that left him with very limited time for answering a written interview. That's when we thought that maybe we could just go to see his Stockholm show to write an article. So I wrote again to Diane and she immediately told me that we would have been their guests  to...

Hello RQL friends ! How are you ? It's the first day of summer and we're here with a very special guest, someone whose life and music can be of great inspiration:  Yeshe ! So thank you so much Yeshe for taking the time to have this interview with us ! Hello Yeshe, would you like to introduce yourself for our listeners\readers? I am a singer/songwriter, percussionist, playing 2 African melodic instruments, the Mbira Dzavadzimu from the Shona people of Zimbabwe and the Kamele Ngoni from the Bambara people of Burkina Faso and Mali. I was born in Germany, but left there at age 16 to discover the rest of the world. I still travel a lot but am now based in Byron Bay, Australia. -When did you start playing\singing? I used to sing in the school choir when I was young and also studied classical guitar back then. -When did your interest in African sounds begun? When I was 14 I started studying African drumming with world renowned Ghanaian master drummer Musta...

Hello RQL friends ! Today we have an interview with a very special artist quite dear to me : Elin Kåven or the arctic fairy . I'm especially excited for this interview for so many reasons. Before moving to Finland for good, as a family we made a wonderful trip visiting the 'great north', all the way up to the arctic circle and than more north until we arrived in North Cape in Norway. That was the first time I got to know the Sami people and culture and for me it has been love at first sight. I felt like I've been stolen something as a human being for not been told or taught anything about this ancient and rich culture and wonderful people in Europe. How is that possible. So since then I tried to learn more and more about Sami, and let me tell you it's not an easy task in english language. But long story short, during my 5 years long quest for learning more I bumped into Elin music and finally now, with this web-site of ours, time were ripe to connect with her for...

Hello RQL friends ! How are you ? We're quite busy finding new lovely talented and interesting artists to fill up our playlist and web-pages, great artists to entertain and inspire you. So today our guest is Nate Maingard, he belongs to the collective of the Lyrical Nomads ( we already introduced you with Roaman and Ny Oh ).  So let's get to know him better !  -Hello Nate, would you like to introduce yourself to our listeners\readers ? Sure, I’m a modern troubadour. Inspiring others to live more purposeful and open-hearted lives, through the art of storytelling and song. -You call yourself a moder troubadour, a story teller. Which is the difference (as you feel it) between a storyteller and a 'singer' ? Anyone who has the voice/training for it can sing. They can sing about ice-cream, they can sing about love, they can sing about whatever they want, and that’s totally ok. To be a true storyteller is to have the capacity to take people on a journey through ...

Hello dear RQL friends !! Here we are with a amazing interview just for you, let's have a chat with our dear friend Ozzi from Liverbox : Hello Ozzi, Would you like to indrotuce yourself to the listeners / readers ? HEY There All You Radio Loviisa Rock n´Rollers ...!! They call me Ozzi and i Bang the drums in this band called LIVERBOX . When the band was born ? The Roots of the band goes back all the way to year 2006 when Mr.Järvenpää and Mr. Thomas. formed the first incarnation of the group to play one AC/DC Tribute gig here in Oulu at the AC/DC Marathon happening . But THIS here form of the Band was born during the spring of 2013 Why are you called Liverbox ? Who came up with the name ? The name of the band ...oh me oh my . I Think Mr.Järvenpää , our singer would be the best one to answer this one but i can tell you this : He had some kinda weird vision in his head that he should have this Flashy, Funky n Cool Band called Rico Tubbs and His Liverbo...