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Finland's Ambassador to Bulgaria, Tarja Laitiainen on a special visit to Plovdiv

Finland's Ambassador to Bulgaria, Tarja Laitiainen on a special visit to Plovdiv

5/10/2010 3:32:59 PM
Plovdiv Region Governor, Ivan Totev, is meeting the Finland's Ambassador to Bulgaria, Tarja Laitiainen. They are expected to discuss bilateral relations and future mutual projects.

At 7 PM tonight, Taria Laitiainen and Ivan Totev are scheduled to visit the official Bulgarian presentation of the Finnish-Bulgarian group "Finno-Balkan Voices". The concert will take place at the concert hall of the Plovdiv Academy of Music, Dancing Arts and Fine Arts.

Finno-Balkan Voices is a group of eight young muciains and vocalists - four from Finland and four from Bulgaria, that are performing folklore music fromt he two countries.The group was founded in 2009 as a relationship between the Sibelius Academy - Helsinki, the music university of Finland, and the Plovdiv Academy of Music, Dancing Arts and Fine Arts.
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