Kip Peltoniemi Live at the Cultural Center
November 23 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
$10
Kip Peltoniemi Concert
Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024
Music Begins @ 7:30PM
The New York Mills Regional Cultural Center’s 2024 Fall Concert Series continues with Kip Peltoniemi on Saturday, November 23, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. This concert is co-presented by the New York Mills Friends of the Library and will take place at the Cultural Center.
Adult tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the door ($2 member discount); student tickets are $5. You can buy your tickets online (click below) or get them at the door. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. and music starts at 7:30. Light refreshments and cash bar available.
Kip Peltoniemi defies stereotypes as an accordion player. “I hardly play any accordion music,” he confesses. “I play music from many genres—ethnic Finnish tunes, blues, country, rock, my own compositions, and more. I just see the accordion as a means of expression—its sound can be big or subtle.”
Kip has performed in several states, recorded in Finland, and his songs have received airplay in many European countries. His album “Minnesota Tango” was named “Folk Album of the Year” in 2002 by Helsingin Sabomat, Finland’s largest newspaper. Kip has been the subject of two documentaries on YLE, Finland’s public television network, and he has also been a guest faculty member at Finland’s top music school, Sibelius Academy in 1995 and 1999.
“I hope to keep playing as long as I keep getting ideas,” he says. “And I think about music pretty much all the time.”