Kunnan Pojat
Kunnan Pojat is the official Rovaniemi city band, established in 2017 by the Rovaniemi office of culture. The group consists mostly of Hannu Raudaskoski (producer/bass/guitars/vocals), Jari Karjalainen (vocals/guitar/keyboards/drums), Jaakko Niemi (drums/bass/guitars/vocals) and Tatu Kantomaa (accordion/keyboards), but since the project was established to employ long-term unemployed musicians periodically, Kunnan Pojat has featured around 15 employed musicians in their ranks, as well as a good number of guests in various special projects. Their main focus is to bring music to audiences that cannot seek it for one reason or another, such as people in elderly homes and small children in kindergartens, but they also do various kinds of side-projects, such as musical lectures in association with the Rovaniemi music library. Their main area of influence is the city and municipality of Rovaniemi. There was also another Kunnan Pojat in southern Finland, who were active in 2018-2021. As of February 2024, Kunnan Pojat of Rovaniemi have released four albums and a book, documenting the history of the group up to 2022.
