This thread brought back very warm memories of a band tour of Finland in February 1979, based on Jyvaskula's Winter Festival. Apart from the startling singing voices and fine fiddling, my favourite discovery was the kantele, the small lap harp used to accompany song. Just the other week I bought a magical celebration of such music which was recorded / created by Andew Cronshaw. Now, where are those tapes that Markku the fiddler sent me in 1980? One of them has the tune The Karelian Polka, which is the same tune used by the Carter Family for Dixie Darling!