Ánnámáret. Bálvvosbáiki

Sibeliusmuseum, Turku Fri 7.2.2025 at 7 pm

More information: https://sibeliusmuseum.fi/en/events/fredagar-pa-sibbe-annamaret/

Ánnámáret is an indigenous Sámi yoiker with unique yoik voice and interpretation. With her band and visual artist she has created an audiovisual world. It combines Ánnámáret yoiks with the electronic music by Turkka Inkilä and Ilkka Heinonen's Carelian bowed lyre jouhikko sound, while Marja Viitahuhta's video art is in conversation with the music.

The entity draws on both the rich Sámi yoik tradition and the living culture, nature, and everyday life of Sápmi, transporting the viewer through images and music into intensely experimental worlds. These ingredients take on a resonant form in this time, embodying and concretizing the search for roots and the revival of tradition, addressing both its positive and more challenging aspects.

Ánnámáret working group released their new album Bálvvosbáiki on August 2024. New video art has also been created to the yoiks of the new album. Yoiks in the entity reflect on how the Sámi worldview is found in this time. Are the old female gods Sáráhkka, Juhksáhkka and Uksáhkka still present? Is the power of the Sieidi, the sacred stone strengthened by yoiking it? What does the overgenerational grief feel like? The themes of the Bálvvosbáiki concert are familiar in Sámi culture, both historically and today.