Pori is considering canceling Jari Sillanpää’s concert

The city of Pori is reconsidered by the singer Jari Sillanpään about the cancellation of the Christmas concert, news Over.

Sillanpää is scheduled to perform at Pori Promenadikeskus on December 16 as part of his Christmas concert tour.

Head of Pori’s cultural unit Jyri Träskelin tells Yle that the city’s management team will take up the issue again next Monday.

The reason is the city of Turku’s Monday decision to cancel Sillanpää’s Christmas concert at Turku Konserttitalo on December 15.

Both Pori and Turku concert venues are managed by the city.

The people of Satakunta reported last week that Pori plans to organize Sillanpää’s Christmas concert as planned, despite criticism from the townspeople.

– Based on equality, our hands are tied. He has received his sentence and suffered, we cannot by our own decision start judging again, Träskelin commented at the time to Satakunta Kansa.

Canceled

The city of Turku announced on Monday that it has decided to cancel Sillanpää’s Christmas concert.

– The city of Turku requires that the contract partners also represent our value base. Turku is a Unicef ​​child-friendly municipality, and Sillanpää is not suitable as the city’s contract partner due to criminal convictions, head of office Tuomas Heikkinen explains in the announcement.

The reason for the cancellation is the singer’s criminal convictions, which came to light this fall Siltwith the documentary. Sillanpää has received criminal convictions for drunk driving, drug offenses and spreading an image offensive to sexual immorality.

Earlier, the city of Hämeenlinna canceled the Christmas concert part of Sillanpää’s tour after consideration. Janne Auvinen, CEO of the concert hall Verkatehta, justified the decision to Iltalehti by saying that Hämeenlinna is a child-friendly city.

The singer’s participation in the concert organized in support of the Cancer Foundation was also canceled earlier in the fall.