Lasse Hoikka of the Souvarit band has known Antero Ylävaara, a Kuukkeli retailer, for 40 years.
20160517 Helsinki, soloist of the Souvarit band Lasse Hoikka PHOTO: JENNI GÄSTGIVAR / IL Jenni Gästgivar
Favorite band Souvareiden bowman Lasse Slim66, is shocked by her best friend and supporter of the dance band Antero Ylävaara The destruction of the Kuukkeli trade. Sorrow and sadness are heard through the slender voice.
– Really shocking, this has been a sad morning to hear the news. We have 40 years of friendship and cooperation with Antero, Hoikka says.
– Seppo Nissilä said and composed what is popular with Souvars He heardsong, and it was also the title song for the trade. Antero has supported us and organized gigs and performances for Saariselkä. Without his help, many CDs would not have been made, Hoikka recalls sadly the fate of the trade.
The last time he went to a meeting at the store was right after Christmas, when the spring-winter gigs were arranged.
– Saariselkä is my home mountain, went to the home store of the home mountain. Our music is played almost every day in the store and especially He heard-paragraph. Now again after the break we return to Saariselkä from the beginning of March until the middle of April, Slim times.
Last autumn, Souvarit danced the tent dances of the Kuukkeli store for three weeks every day.
– The feeling was awesome, there were 400-500 people every day, Slim remembers last fall.
Food delivery will be arranged
Hoikka praises Kuukkel’s merchant’s organizational and business ability and believes that the merchant will organize basic food sales, for example, in the short term.
-It is definitely not necessary to be completely without trade services, yes Antero arranges. To think that he had left the store on Sunday at 11 p.m. I have been in contact with Antero on Monday a couple of times, comforting and supporting. Yes, this will be resolved together, Hoikka believes.
He says he is in good shape, as is Souvarit, founded in 1978. The band’s spring season starts on Friday in Joensuu.
“Now we have gathered strength by hunting and exercising. It’s an awesome feeling when alcohol no longer tastes good. Last week, 14 years of sobriety came to an end and there was enough power.
“A sadly bad time for the store to burn, the season is starting and tourists are flowing and rejoicing in the air when Korona is relieving, Slim sighing – and the song Kuukkeli is humming.