Minneapolis-St. Paul singer Ruth MacKenzie, dubbed the "Janis Joplin of folk" in Finland and Sweden, has created a dramatic and deeply moving concert event, Kalevala: Dream of the Salmon Maiden. Using the vocal sounds and oral poetry of the Scandinavian and Finno-Ugirc traditions of ancient women's songs (cry singing, spell singing and animal calls), Ruth MacKenzie has created an original concert event--a story of the untamable within each of us.

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