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Come rain or snow, Iiro Rantala delivers with inventive humour

‘The music affectionately and self-deprecatingly presents traditional Finnish sentiments about the seasons’

Freya Parr

Published: September 19, 2019 at 9:27 am

‘The music affectionately and self-deprecatingly presents traditional Finnish sentiments about the seasons’

Iiro Rantala My Finnish Calendar Iiro Rantala (piano) ACT 9882-2

Freya Parr

Digital Editor and Staff Writer, BBC Music Magazine

Freya Parr is BBC Music Magazine's digital editor and staff writer, editing and writing on all styles of music across both the website and print magazine. She has also written for titles including the Guardian, Circus Journal, Frankie and Suitcase Magazine, and runs The Noiseletter, a fortnightly arts and culture publication. Freya's main areas of interest and research lie in 20th-century and contemporary music. She's a regular sea shanty singer, folk obsessive and occasional flautist, pianist, organist and musical theatre director.