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		<title>Back to work, finally!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a long pause in the work of this project, as you&#8217;ve all noticed. Thus, I&#8217;m happy to announce that the project is still alive and kicking. At this point we have to admit that the time we reserved for going through all the reels, listening to them, compiling nice set of CD&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alakonni.wordpress.com&amp;blog=463773&amp;post=72&amp;subd=alakonni&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Participating in a symposium in Finland 27.-29.3.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you happen to be in our neck of the woods next week, be sure to attend THE 12TH NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MUSIC RESEARCH at the University of Tampere, Finland, 27-29 March, 2008. We have prepared a poster introducing our project and you can actually listen through the first CD of our series there. You [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alakonni.wordpress.com&amp;blog=463773&amp;post=71&amp;subd=alakonni&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;d like to use this opportunity to wish you all happy year 2008! This year will bring the fruits of our work in public, as the first CD is almost ready to be published. We hope that we will be able to continue our work also in the future, as we have plans for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alakonni.wordpress.com&amp;blog=463773&amp;post=70&amp;subd=alakonni&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slowly but definately</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are getting there. Last few months Pekko has been writing the commentaries and liner notes for the first CD to be published. Other work takes some time off our hands (check out for example Pekko&#8217;s debut solo album at www.pekkokappi.com) but we are anyhow advancing in our project. The first two CDs will without [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alakonni.wordpress.com&amp;blog=463773&amp;post=69&amp;subd=alakonni&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1500th folk music enthusiast in the blog!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you all! Our statistics clearly show that there are still people interested on our project. Although the phase of the project is now writing the commentaries and hunting the publishing rights (not the most exiting job in the world), we still try to open up in here: if anything interesting happens, you&#8217;ll be the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alakonni.wordpress.com&amp;blog=463773&amp;post=68&amp;subd=alakonni&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SOUNDS now available!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are glad to announce that you can finally find some audio samples from the coming releases on our main site, Sounds page (http://www.aitorecords.com/alakonni/sounds.html). We hope you like it. Remember to click the &#8220;i&#8221; icon for some details of the song.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alakonni.wordpress.com&amp;blog=463773&amp;post=67&amp;subd=alakonni&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, our report from America!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ARSC 2007, Milwaukee, Wisconsin We left from Finland for the annual ARSC Conference in Milwaukee while the rest of the Finland was celebrating the First of May. Our plan was to spend couple of days in Chicago before the conference and take an advantage of this quite rare occasion &#8211; meet fellow ethnomusicologists and visit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alakonni.wordpress.com&amp;blog=463773&amp;post=49&amp;subd=alakonni&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Greetings from ICTM World Conference!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[July was a busy month for Pekko. Finnish festival summer is exceptional for a local musician, as most of the gigs during the whole year are squeezed in few months of active touring, teaching and having fun all over Finland (and Finland is relatively big a country). Therefore, Lari started travelling a bit earlier towards [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alakonni.wordpress.com&amp;blog=463773&amp;post=44&amp;subd=alakonni&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Project diary, week 33</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back from the summer break The Masters of Finnish Folk Music -project is back from the holidays. When June and July were exceptionally rainy in Finland, August seams to break the all-time records in hot weather. All on all after eight months of digging the archives the summer break really hit the spot and we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alakonni.wordpress.com&amp;blog=463773&amp;post=43&amp;subd=alakonni&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations Eija!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 09:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A historical moment took place at the Folklife archives earlier this week. The amanuensis Eija Kukkurainen  - who has been working at the archive since 1973 and also listening and indexing the AK-collection from the reel #1 onwards &#8211; was happy to announce that she had finally listened and indexed the very last reel (#5347) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alakonni.wordpress.com&amp;blog=463773&amp;post=42&amp;subd=alakonni&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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