SPECIAL IMPROMPTU CONCERT SPONSORD BY FHM WAS A SUCCESS AND MUCH FUN
Will Kilpela & Friends Band performed in Fairport Harbor’s Veterans Memorial Park on Saturday, June 13. The group, “is actually 3/5ths or 60% of our normal strength” joked leader and accordionist Will Kilpela, “but it is still great music.” 
Many of the small crowd tapped their feet, nodded their heads, and sometimes sang along with the music. The crowd especially enjoyed the song, “stolen by those Spaniards,” said Kilpela, “called ‘Espanjalaisen Silmat.’ ” The tune brought real laughs when the audience correctly deduced the song as the original “Spanish Eyes!” 
The Marquette Michigan band was en route to a concert in Connecticut and performed an hour long medley of traditional Finnish folk songs using accordion, drums, guitar, spoons, voices and bones to carry the tunes to their happy ends.
The program was sponsored by the Finnish Heritage Museum's Events Committee.
Pictures © Lasse O. Hiltunen, 2009
