So that the concert visit will be successful for everyone, the Korsholm Music Festival has in the last years tried to put special focus on accessibility. Accessibility starts with removing barriers when going to a concert, and this year almost all of our concert venues are accessible to the disabled. The main location of the festival, Vaasa City Hall, has an elevator at the entrance of the Vaasanpuistikko side of the building.

Participating in the Festival is not depending on money this year. Our programme includes many free concerts and events, and they can be enjoyed in Vaasa's city center almost daily. We also offer discounted tickets for the unemployed, pensioners, students, conscripts and persons undergoing non-military service. Our festival café Loftet is disability-friendly, and the coffee concerts held there aim for accessibility in multiple ways.

We strive for enough social distancing, and that is why there are clearly less seats available in the concert places compared to before. The safety of our audience and artists is our priority!

The Music Festival attempts to draw attention to different language groups and user groups in its marketing. Most of the marketing takes place in three languages, Swedish, Finnish, and English. The web pages can be read with a screen reader and on social media, Korsholm Music Festival updates also as video greetings.

Social accessibility is important for the Korsholm Music Festival. You can come to the festival’s concerts as you are. Forget about the dress codes for traditional classical concerts and other rituals that largely belong to the past. For a successful concert visit, the important thing is that you respect the others in the audience and that you have the equal right to enjoy music in peace and quiet without being disturbed. The concerts are excellent opportunities for peace and quiet from stress and everyday life.

In the training of our staff we try to take into consideration special groups and different special situations. We sincerely hope to meet different kinds of people. We welcome feedback in order to develop our operation. Our staff is also happy to help solve any issues concerning accessibility. The Music Festival concerts are part of the Vänkort-service, through which you may visit the concerts together with your support person, who enters the concert for free.

We are not yet perfectly perfect in our accessibility, but during the years we have taken small steps forward both within the festival organization and in society in general. We are proud of this development at the Korsholm Music Festival!