Name: Double feature: Manel Ferreira (PRT) & Tuomas Paukku
Start: 2025-11-08T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-11-08T23:00:00+02:00
Location: Handelsesplanaden 12, 65100 Vaasa, Finland

SAT 8/11 double feature: Manel Ferreira (PRT) & Tuomas Paukku
Manel Ferreira presents a solo 7-string classical guitar + vocals concert, where he showcases his compositions and arrangements with influences from Latin America and Iberian (Flamenco & Fado) music.
Guitarist Tuomas Paukku's solo project combines compositions, improvisations, different playing techniques, effects and looping, stylistically moving through the most reflective and calm sectors of jazz and contemporary music.
Doors: 19:00
Show: 20:00
Entry: 12/8€ (members free!)

Manel Ferreira, guit & voc
Portuguese guitarist Manel Ferreira mixes musical styles as diverse as the places he has traveled- with his backpack and 7 string guitar by his side, he’s seen the jungles of Guatemala and the steep peaks of the Himalayas. He stores his memories in musical format- in instrumental pieces, which mix various World Music influences, like Brazilian, Flamenco, Fado and Tango, with subtle nuances of Classical Music and Jazz or in songs that immediately send us to the place where they were created.
At home, he’s walking a path just as exciting - he was one of the winners of the prestigious ‘European Guitar Award 2021’ and has played in places ranging from South Africa to Russia to all over Europe, both solo, and with some of Portugal’s finest artists, including Ana Moura and Mariza, with whom he currently plays.
In 2022, he released his new album 'Vento Ibérico’, where he showcases some of his newest compositions, with a more ‘Iberian’ feel, and also a couple of eclectic arrangements of songs by two Portuguese artists that have influenced him. It's also the first time he presents himself as a singer, with the song 'Solidao'.
More recently, he released an EP with the collaboration and production of guitar legend Yamandu Costa. In these 5 pieces, Manel passes to the other side of the Atlantic, putting out his guitar pieces most inspired by Brazilian and Latin American music.

Tuomas Paukku, guit, effects & loops
”Peaces” is a solo guitar project by Finnish guitarist-composer Tuomas Paukku, which explores the possibilities of the jazz guitar as a solo instrument. It combines compositions, improvisations, different playing techniques, effects and looping, stylistically moving through the most reflective and calm sectors of jazz and contemporary music.
The Peaces album was released in April 2025 on Eclipse Music. The album and Paukku’s solo performances feature the guitarist's own compositional works, interpretations of selected jazz standards and small gems of classical music.
Tuomas Paukku is one of the most active guitarists in the Finnish jazz scene. His own bands include the contemporary jazz quartet Tuomas Paukku Scription and the multi-generational Jazz Jkl Collective. Paukku also works as a live producer for the Jazz Jkl, an association that enriches live jazz activities in Jyväskylä and Central Finland.
Paukku's previous and third full-length album, "Whirls", was released in late autumn 2023. The album features Tuomas Paukku Scription, a quartet led by the guitarist, which represents a distinctive and strong vision in contemporary Finnish jazz. The beautiful mountainous atmospheres and cyclical moods of Scription's music have thrilled listeners across genre boundaries.