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Welcome to Nomads Festival at Stoa for an evening where musical traditions, contemporary sounds and different cultural landscapes meet.📅 10 October 2026
📍 Stoa, Helsinki
🎟 Free admission
Admission is free, but capacity is limited, so we recommend arriving early.
Schedule
18:00 – DJ Bunuel
18:30 – Aizhan Sultan
19:30 – DJ Bunuel
20:15 – Hildá Länsman & Tuomas Norvio
21:15 – DJ Bunuel
Aizhan Sultan
Aizhan Sultan is a singer, songwriter and doctoral researcher based in Finland originally from Kazakhstan. Her compositions derive inspiration from Kazakh traditional and contemporary music. Her art reflects on her journey around the world and her inner political and social experiences.
Aizhan’s work focuses on the topic of decolonisation of Central Asia and radical inclusion. As a woman living with achondroplasia, she has an intimate relationship with power as a source of oppression, but also solidarity and art as a power of emancipation. The traditional kazakh singing, throat singing and the sound of shanqobyz (jaw harp) is implemented with live electronics of Saku Liimatainen and drums of Vilho Louhivuori. The live electronics will bring a modern sound of Finnish music to the nomadic culture of Kazakhs.
Her main goal is to represent and make accessible Central Asian, in particular Kazakh, music and art to the international audience. The author is giving the audience the opportunity to discover more the art and history of the Kazakhs. Aizhan Sultan gets inspiration for her music from the history and tradition of Nomadic culture combining them in the modern form.
Hildá Lánssman & Tuomas Norvio
The duo Hildá Länsman & Tuomas Norvio invite you to join their ongoing exploration between the ancient Sámi vocal tradition of luohti (joik) and modern electronic soundscapes.
Hildá Länsman is a singer, joiker, and musician from Ohcejohka, the northernmost Finnish part of the Sápmi region. She grew up in a family of reindeer herders and joikers, and her work is dedicated to highlighting and developing the Sámi culture.
Tuomas Norvio, a Finnish sound designer, composer and producer, weaves his intricate electronic soundscapes, brimming with urban urgency and metropolitan melancholy, into the spirit of Sámi identity - creating an artistic meeting ground between Helsinki and the high north.
Together they create music that lives both in the past and future, between the tundra and the dance floor.
Hildá Länsman & Tuomas Norvios debut album “Dajan” was released in 2025, described by the duo themselves as an ongoing conversation between tradition and technology, human and machine, earth and electricity. In 2026 they won the Vuoden Etno award at the Emma Galla for the album.
Their live performances are energetic and unexpected, always bringing elements of improvisation that creates an ongoing nerve on stage. The duo has been an official selection at Womex, Bylarm, ENSN and Tallinn Music week 2025/2026.
We invite you to a live performance that’s both unexpectedly touching and irresistibly danceable.
DJ Bunuel
DJ Bunuel is a legend of Finnish rhythmic music, captivating clubs and airwaves since the 1970s. His eclectic sets combine jazz, urban rhythms, and world music, creating unforgettable atmospheres.
Come experience an evening of music, encounters and sounds without borders.
Free admission – welcome!
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Event venue
Turunlinnantie 1, 00900, 00900 Helsinki, Finland, Turunlinnantie 1, FI-00900 Helsinki, Suomi, Helsinki, Finland
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