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Oiva Anderson was born to the small Finnish-speaking immigrant community of
New Ipswitch, New Hampshire, just north of the border with Massachusetts.
Some years later, his daughters Christine and Sharon formed a small musical
group called Oivan Tytöt (Oiva's Daughters) that played traditional Finnish
folk music. After a while, many of their friends got involved, and some
of them were male, so the name didn't fit so well. Oiva approved the
renaming to "Oivan Ilo" (Oiva's Joy), to express his happiness that his
family and friends were playing this music.
So Oivan Ilo is a somewhat motley gang of friends who play this music together. We play for a couple of dances each month, and at assorted other events. |
| cd01 | Our first CD |
| tunes | Some of the tunes that we play. |