Nathan Muus, who'll perform several times during FinnFest, is a Sami yoiker -- "yoik" being the indigenous song of Sami peoples, meant to capture and transmit the essence of its subject. Muus is also ...

Europe's only indigenous people are demanding their rights in Brussels, which are threatened by the ecological transition and the lack of EU policies. The Sami people live in Lapland, in the far north ...

BECKET — “You could come singing. When you come to someone's place, you could come yoiking … and in yoiking you can improvise the words in relation to the situation and your relationship to the people ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Ánde Somby is a Sami yoiker who hails from Norway.(Supplied) Yoiks are the songs of the Sámi people, ...

Ciamar a’ tha a’ Yoik a’ dìon fèidh-shneachda ann an Dùthaich nan Sàmi. Seumas MacLetchie journeys to meet a Sami yoik artist in Finnish Lapland. Show more Dh'fhoghlam Seumas Macletchie mun ...

Robert Siegel talks with Finnish vocalist Wimme Sari about his music, a form of traditional singing called "yoiking". The yoik is used by the Sami reindeer herders of northern Finland to evoke a ...

It`s winter and snowing. Fine flakes dust glistening drifts that blanket timberland and tundra. Lapland is twilight white. The sun sank below the horizon weeks ago, and won`t ascend until January`s ...

INARI (Finland) •Sporting a grey hoodie, goatee and oversized headphones, rapper Amoc spits a stream of aggressive staccato rhymes into the microphone of his home studio as he works on new material.

Lapland. December. It’s snowing. Fine flakes dus still-glistening drifts that blanketed timberland and tundra last week. Lapland is twilight white. The sun sank below the horizon weeks ago and won’t ...