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                                        MUSIC TO YOUR PARTIES, GALAS AND ANNIVERSARIES
 

We offer You entertaining and high-class Club Orchestra music, which creates a pleasant atmosphere to your party.

Club Orchestra's Viennese Orchestra

Entrance music and background music during the dinner including original
Viennese melodies and melodies from operettas and musicals.

Club Orchestra's Concert Ball

Traditional happy Club Orchestra's dance music from Viennese waltzes
to samba rhythms and music styles from different centuries performed in their original languages.
Orchestra wears tuxedos or clubjackets. We also play intervalmusic.
 

This program only gives you some ideas of the repertoire, and we will gladly discuss in more detail of your occasion.
The Club Orchestra can be in a form of an accordion player, a pianist or from one man-band to even a  14  member orchestra according to your occasion. All members of our Orchestra are members of Finnish Musician's Union. Below is an assembly of 14 performers:

Jari Niemelä                  piano,accordion,bass,keyboard instruments and leader of orchestra
Juha Niemelä                 violin, piano,keyboard instruments,bass, accordion and vocal
Pertti Niemelä               accordion, piano, bass ,percussion instruments, guitar,banjo,vibraphone
Martti Metsäketo         flute, tenorsaxophone, conga,bass and vocal
Juhani Romppanen        alto- and tenorsaxophone
Yrjö Hauskala             flute, soprano- and tenorsaxophone, conga, percussion instruments and vocal
Unto Haapa-aho             clarinet and tenorsaxophone
Esko Haapa-aho             drums and percussion instruments
Jorma Pitkänen              guitar, bass, vocal and emceeing of parties/festivals and quizes, troubadour
Maikki Metsäketo         vocal and speaker
Raimo Korhonen            trumpet ,fluegelhorn, timpalex and background vocal
Jouni Heinonen              acoustic and electric violin and clarinet and altosaxophone.
Hannu Rimpinen             electric and acoustic guitar, bass , keyboard instruments and vocal
Matti Koskiala                drums, percussion intruments

If you want more information click the underlined names.

The Club Orchestra also does a musical and a historical performance/presentation to your anniversary and special musical shows including:

Club Orchestra's Banjo-Boys
Happy music in the spirit of the 20's  - Charleston,  Lambeth Walk
and straw hats - Yes Sir

Club Orchestra's Swing time
Nice Swing-music in the spirit of the 30's played by the finnish music's "Grand Old Man"
Unto Haapa-aho "On The Sunny Side of The Street"...

Club Orchestra's memories from the war-time.
War-time's and the 40's most touching melodies played with accordion, mandolin and violin.

Club Orchestra's ELVIS-Show

See and hear "Elvis" and his immortal music from the fifties.

Club Orchestra's Route 66 Band

Sixties is back and The Beatles- and The Rolling Stones-melodies
plus other melodies from the 60's will captivate the audience with Jorma Pitkänen as soloist.

Club Orchestra's Film Music collection

The most well-known and heard film and musical melodies during the years.

Club Orchestra's Sambaset

Hot latino rhythms presented in their original languages.
Soloists: Maikki and Martti Metsäketo.

Club Orchestra's "Lederhose" Orchestra

A happy evening is highlighted by German drinking songs and schlagers and also by Swedish
(Bellman,Taube) and Finnish songs and Irish melodies.

Club Orchestra's Russian Evening
Atmospheric Russian romances and Cossack songs performed in Russian languages
and compelling gypsy music.

Club Orchestra's Cow-Boys
Traditional country and western music from the campfire.

Club Orchestra's Dixie-Tigers
Dixieland Music with bowlers.

Club Orchestra's Chanson time
French walzes played with accordion  - La Petite Vals

Club Orchestra's sailorboys
Swedish and Finnish sailorwalzes and songs played with accordion.

Niemelä's Folk Music Players
Compelling folk music played with violin and accordion.

Club Orchestra's Sing-along evening and Music Quiz
Come to sing the traditionals sing-along songs and to participate in a musical quiz.

Songs about happiness and life to anniversaries, bridal couples and festivals.
Performed by Jorma Pitkänen and Jari Niemelä as an accompanist.

Club Orhestra´s Christmas carols
The most beautiful Christmas carols from Finland and from the world.

Club Orchestra's music for children.
Energetic kids' music led by Animal characters, where also the kids is playing and singing.
 

Club Orchestra has performed in many different occasions including :

Anniversaries
Congresses
Customer days
Publications
Opening ceremonies
Open houses
Crayfish parties
Staff events
Award ceremonies
Christmas (staff) parties
Cruisings
Kid's party
New year's celebrations
 

               Musical greetings

               Jari Niemelä

  Webpagedesign and translation by Petri Niemelä.