MA: Sauna Celebration
National Sauna Week festivities include: Finnish Pannukakku Breakfast (8-10 a.m.), Wife Carrying Contest (10:30 a.m.); visit the former sauna, now preserved as a museum (11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.); X-C ski, snowshoe […]
National Sauna Week festivities include: Finnish Pannukakku Breakfast (8-10 a.m.), Wife Carrying Contest (10:30 a.m.); visit the former sauna, now preserved as a museum (11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.); X-C ski, snowshoe […]
Enjoy a traditional, wood fired sauna during this week-long recognition of the Finnish bathing method. The sauna has a private dressing room, hot room large enough for three, buckets of […]
Outdoors, Log the Sauna, a woodfire barrel sauna will host up to six people for each one-hour session ($20 per person). Indoors, the Red River Finns will serve coffee and […]
Enjoy a Finnish winter picnic and sledding event at the second annual Laskianen, a joint celebration with FACA, Suomikoulu and FFTC/Finnsource. BYO picnic lunch and sleds; click below for more […]
Join in the wintry fun and tasty Pea Soup Challenge.
Wear purple and green and enjoy a menu of pea soup, salad, sandwiches, special desserts, Finnish coffee. Donation $12.
The Minnesota Wild retires Mikko Koivu's jersey at the game against the Nashville Predators. Event includes a ticket to the game, a post game on-ice photo and celebration of our […]
Enjoy a special dinner and music by FinnFolk. Please join us for a great night of food, fun, and spirits!
Wear your purple and green! Appetizers, meatball dinner, dessert, coffee/tea. BYOB. Music by Central Mass Accordion Club. Hat contest, games, raffle. $20. Please bring proof of Covid vaccination; masks optional. Reservations required by Sunday, March 13: finnishcenter@yahoo.com or 978 407-9690
In this FinnFest USA program, join folklorist and ethnomusicologist Nathan Gibson as he shares his research and musical samples of the ways many Finns have connected with American culture through American roots music over the last 60 years.