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Avant-garde folk
violin & nyckelharpa

Meriheini Luoto

composer performer

"Meriheini Luoto performs the violin drone of “ILO OLI ILO OLI ILO” to a seated audience and it feels like you’re in different era in time, as Luoto plays to a visual backdrop reminiscent of Andy Warhol’s The Exploding Plastic Inevitable."

Ed Nash / The Line of Best Fit, 2023

Flow Festival review

"Most thrillingly, Finland's own Meriheini Luoto brought a spine-tingling intensity to frantic, frazzled, looped violin concoctions."

Rob Garratt / All About Jazz, 2023

Flow Festival review

"This is a violinist who not only has great technique but a clear idea what she wants to do with it. Her album progresses confidently from beautiful to scary and back again."

Clive Bell / The Wire, 2017

"Luoto’s innovative approach to tradition has resulted in a bold, and sometimes even intimidating, album that bows down to no one. The work of a composer with a strong voice of her own."

Teosto Prize jury, 2018

contact:

meriheini.luoto((at))gmail.com

+358 50 411 6306

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