At the Porvoo Jazz Festival\u2019s Vanha 123 concerts, the audience is always served two gigs with one ticket. The gigs will start at the same time on stages 1 and 2 at 8pm and after a short break at 9.15pm the audience will change the stage and hear the other performer of the evening. The two acts of the Friday night will be Riikka Ker\u00e4nen and Kikoski-M\u00e4ensivu-Peri. <\/p>\n\n
Singer and composer Riikka Ker\u00e4nen is one of the most impressive rising jazz artists in the Finnish music scene. Dark and warm sound, sophisticated phrasing and scat improvisation are strongly present in her new music. Ker\u00e4nen performs atmospheric, modern jazz on her acclaimed debut album A Vision of a Garde<\/em>n released by Flame Jazz Records<\/em> in February 2022. Ker\u00e4nen\u2019s phrasing, control and scat technique have strong roots in the jazz tradition and it is accompanied by the flowing heartbeat of the talented musicians. <\/p>\n\n Riikka Ker\u00e4nen has a master’s degree in jazz music from the Sibelius Academy. She has also studied jazz singing at the Guildhall School of Music in London and the Malm\u00f6 Academy of Music in Sweden. In addition to her own band, she has performed in the singing group Signe, which won the Emma and Teosto Award nominations. <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n “Ker\u00e4se’s vocals are brilliant, it is at times slowly paced but rhythmically suprising at the same time”<\/p>Kari Salminen, Turun Sanomat, 5.3.2022<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n