The singer Eppu Uutinen represents the rock spirit that pervades today's Nordic youth. Based in Helsinki, Finland, this huge Finn with a deep and charismatic voice always takes the stage with the aim of offering the real essence of rock; pure energy and full understanding of how a show should ...

Denmark has already won two gold medals at the London Olympics 2012. On Saturday the Danishrowing  couple Mada Rasmussen and Rasmus Quist  won gold in Men's lightweight double sculls at the Lake Eton bringing to Denmark its first gold medal in these games. The Danes left behind the British and New ...

In Finland there is a wide range of Finnish language courses for anyone wishing to study or live in Finland, or for those who seek the Finnish language skills to facilitate their everyday life in Finland. If you are interested in intensive and short term courses of Finnish, a good choice are the courses organized ...

The 32nd edition of the European architecture students Assembly  is held this year in the current World Design Capital 2012, Helsinki under the title Wastelands. The event, promoted by the network organization of architecture students, EASA (European Architecture Students Assembly), began on Monday July 16 and will last a total of two weeks ...

The Swedish singer Loreen was proclaimed winner of the Eurovision song contest on Saturday 26 May in Baku, Azerbaijan with her song "Euphoria". Lorine Zineb Noka, which is how the singer is called actually, took the win with a total of 372 points leaving behind the graceful Russian Buranovskiye Babushk- grandmothers, who got second place, and the representative of Serbia Zeljo Joksimovic who took the third place. Of Moroccan origin, the Swedish singer's career began in 2004 in the television competition Idols in Sweden, after which she continued ...

The young Danish singer Soluna Samay is the representative of Denmark for the Eurovision song contest 2012. The singer will participate with the song "Should've Known Better" in the contest to be held on May 26 in Baku, Azerbayián. Soluna Samay is a very young and promising singer with only 22 years born in Guatemala. Daughter of a German father and a Swiss mother, her family moved to the Danish island of Bornholm in 2000, where the singer has lived ...

SPOT Festival, one of the biggest music festivals in Scandinavia and the Nordic countries took place last weekend 4. and 5. May in Aarhus, Denmark. The SPOT Festival has the support of major part of the Scandinavian music scene related with pop and rock. The festival has four main ideological pillars which it tries to accomplish every year;  the focus in the new Danish and Nordic music, the aim to narrow the gap ...

The Swedish writer and journalist Jonas Jonasson is having remarkable international success with his first novel "The Centenarian Who Climbed Out Through the Window and Disappeared". Last week the novel went to number one on the in the Catalan language fiction list while  holding the third place on the Spanish language fiction list. The book ...

Swedish Alpine skier Anja Pärson has announced she will retire from skiing after finishing the Schladming World Cup championship this week. Olympic gold winner, seven times world champion and two time champion of the World Cup in alpine skiing, the 30- year-old skier has decided to end her career due to injuries ...

Nordic Walking is a type of physical fitness training which is based on regular walking.  The key difference is that Nordic Walking utilizes specially designed Nordic Poles to enhance the walking experience.  With the use of these poles, Nordic Walking allows users to exercise or train more parts of their ...