In summer 2023, Korsholm Music Festival offers wonderful concerts and other activities! Our concert excursions are full-day experiences filled with chamber music, delicious foods, and unique landscapes!
The whole concert program for the festival week can be found here.
In addition to the wonderful music in the evening's concert, you can enjoy a delicious evening meal at the café Cirkas after the concert. Cirkas has designed an assortment of treats to go along with the evening's concert.
Program for the evening:
16.45 Departure from Vaasa City Hall
17.30 Concert No. 3 “The Trout” in Stundars
ca. 19.00 A plate of delicacies at Café and boutique Cirkas
ca. 19.45 Return to Vaasa
Bookings for the evening meal before 24 July.
Prices: Evening meal at Cirkas 15 €, concert ticket 23 / 19 €. Return trip bus 10 €, paid separately.
Tickets from Netticket, Studio Ticket in Vaasa centre, and the festival office.
Full day tour to the island Replot and Björköby.
The tour starts from Vaasa City Hall, from where we leave with the guide by bus towards the World Heritage Site "Kvarken". We stop for lunch at restaurant Arken to enjoy whitefish soup and Scandinavian rye and malt bread. Then, we continue to Salteriet for the tango concert. After the concert, there is time to enjoy the scenery and nature of the world heritage area. If you like, you can, for example, go to the observation tower of Saltkaret or drink a cup of coffee in Salteriet. At 17.30 o'clock we continue by bus back to Vaasa via the Replot Church. The concert at the Replot Church is the jubilee concert of the Korsholm municipality. During the evening we will hear music from many wonderful composers. The young and skilful Erinys Quartet performs along with the lovely soprano Tuuli Lindeberg and the terrific guitarist Petri Kumela.
11.00 Departure from Vaasa City Hall
12.00 Lunch at Restaurant Arken (whitefish soup and Scandinavian rye and malt bread)
15.00 Concert No. 10 "Atle, Knut Erik & friends goes tango” at Salteriet
ca. 16.30 A walk to Saltkaret observation tower or coffee (at own cost)
17.30 Departure to Vaasa via Replot Church
18.00 Concert No. 11 “Korsholm 675 years jubilee concert” at the Replot Church
Please note! Restricted amount of seats available.
You can buy tickets to the excursions via Netticket by choosing the ticket type "concert 10, lunch + guide services" or "concert 10 & 11, lunch + guide services". Tickets are also sold at Studio Ticket in Vaasa centre and the festival office.
Price: 72 € / person, includes: two-way bus, lunch, 2 concerts, guide services
51 € / person: two-way bus, lunch, concert at Restaurant Salteriet, guide services. Concert in Replot Church not included.
Photo: City of Vaasa / Kimmo Makkonen
If ready-made concert excursions are not your thing, you can plan your own kind of program to go with your concert visits! Vaasa is at its best in the summertime. Whether you want to go to the beach or nature trails, enjoy an art exhibition or go shopping, you have plenty of options. And the cafes and restaurants in the Vaasa region are so wonderful that you should try to visit as many as possible!
Discover the small and big experiences of the Vaasa region on the Visit Vaasa website.