Kaustinen Folk Music Festival

Kaustinen Folk Music Festival, celebrated yearly in July in Kaustinen, Finland, is the biggest folk music and dance festival in the Nordic countries. It was first celebrated in 1968. The festival originated in showcasing the famous local fiddle-based music tradition, which has continued uninterrupted 250 or more years, and is still the emotional core of the event. Since 2021, Kaustinen fiddle playing and related practices and expressions is inscribed into UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.