Greenrose Faire

Advent calendar, day 11

admin — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:34:23 +0000

Day eleven shows some rarer behind the scenes photos.

Advent calendar, day 9

admin — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:32:39 +0000

In today’s video, Tomi and Nona tell the story of the song “Raindrops”.

Advent calendar, day 8

admin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:29:35 +0000

Day 8 offers a live video shot at the album release party at Yo-talo.

Advent calendar, day 7

admin — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:26:56 +0000

In today’s slot we have the fourth song from the album, Witchdance.

Advent calendar, Day 3

admin — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:58:21 +0000

Day three gives us some live photos taken by Pauli Borodulin.

Advent calendar

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:21:01 +0000

This we fancied setting up our own video advent calendar, where we talk through all the songs on the album, and show live and behind the scenes footage, photos, and whatever comes to mind.

The videos are in Finnish, but we’ve started adding captions at least to the most popular ones. Here’s the very first one where Tomi and Niilo talk about the opening song of the album, Dance til Morning Light. (click the little CC button on the video to turn on the captions)

Click here to see all the videos with English captions.

Reviews

admin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:44:35 +0000

The reviews for our record are starting to come in, and this is what they say:

“Their jaunty playing, Tomi Hyttinen’s songs and Salla Rimmi’s classic folk vocals come together to form something that falls between Steeleye Span’s finer moments and the hugely enjoyable Circulus.”
Rob F., Leicester Bangs 13.10.2011

(loosely translated from Finnish)
“Ultimately, it comes down to keeping up the traditions and transmitting the good spirits of the performer to the listener, and this Greenrose Faire manages well. Hey!”
Kalevi Heino, Imperiumi.net 25.10.2011

The best place to get the record is from our very own Shoppe.

Album out today!

admin — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:29:58 +0000

Greenrose Faire’s first full-length album titled Neverending Journey is out now.

Get the album from:
Greenrose Shoppe (CD)
CD Baby (USA, CD + mp3)
Garden Shed (Japan, CD)
Amazon (mp3)
iTunes (mp3)
and record shops all over Finland

1. Dance ’til Morning Light
2. Beggars and Thieves
3. The Old Knight
4. Witchdance
5. Raindrops
6. Land of Hope and Freedom
7. Neverending Journey
8. Flower on the Grave
9. Everytime
10. Barons of Langtree
11. The Promised Land
12. Legend of the Woods
13. Greenrose’s Faire

As a preview to both the music and cover artwork, here is the first track, Dance ’til Morning Light:

Album release party on Sep 21st

admin — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:31:20 +0000

Neverending Journey hits the shops on 21.9., and the proper way to celebrate is to commandeer a public house and play the tunes from the album there among with great friends. And maybe also partake of some suitable beverages during the night.

The release party takes place at Yo-talo, Tampere on Wednesday 21.9. Live music starts at nine-ish by the nights special guests Jhary’s Trio, three gentlemen in kilts.

Greenrose Faire gets the stage after ten. There may well happen some surprise performances during the show.

Entry costs five local coins, and the doors open at 8 o’clock. Welcome!

Back from the medieval fair

admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:38:12 +0000

The magnificent medieval fair at Häme castle spelled the end of the summer season, and the time machine has started ticking towards the twenty-first century once again. Fortunately, August put on her prettiest face for the weekend and the festivities in Hämeenlinna were not lacking in food, drink or singing.

The band wishes to thank the audiences of all the four shows. We have rarely had as loud and enthusiastic audience as that of Hurttala elementary school, and at least the autograph line was the longest yet.

The gigs on the fair grounds were also quite special, and the audiences in Häme surely are not slow at all and gave their boot-heels a proper kicking about!