The three-day Helsinki City Festival will be headlined by an international singer.
Lewis Capaldi will be seen in Finland next year. PDO
Lewis Capaldi will perform next June at the Helsinki City Festival. The event will take place on the 12th–14th. June in the surroundings of the Helsinki Ice Hall.
Inter alia Someone You Loved– and Before You Go – the singer-songwriter known for his hits had to cancel his concerts in 2023 due to mental health reasons. Before his gig break, the artist said that he had been diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome, which causes tic symptoms, rapid and involuntary movements or vocalizations.
However, the musician is doing well now. The artist is currently selling his tour tickets for next year, and last Thursday’s gig at New York’s Madison Square Garden sold out in minutes.
The appearance at the Helsinki City Festival is Capaldi’s second in Finland. In 2022, he performed at Pori Jazz.
The Helsinki City Festival, which will grow to three days, will also take place next year at the Helsinki Ice Hall and its surroundings. Festival organizer Kalle Keskinen told Iltalehte that in June 2025 he submitted an application to the city of Helsinki for a larger event area, as the festival caused chaos in the ice rink and its surroundings.
In June 2025, Helsinki City Festival gathered more than 40,000 visitors in two days.
In the fall of 2025, the festival published a press release on their website, in which they say that they have read the feedback about the festival’s problems. Changes are coming to the arrangements, the festival promises.
– We will improve the conditions of the event area even more for a large audience, and more space will be made in the audience area. The capacity of the indoor stage of the ice rink can be increased by opening the lower stands for customer use, the festival reports.
– The entrance to the festival, as well as doing business in Narika, will become smoother when one performance stage will be removed from the front. In addition, the location of the VIP area and Toilets will change. The bar in the middle moves to another place, and thus there is more space in the middle of the field to watch the gigs. The ice rink’s capacity is increased by opening the lower levels. In addition, more informative signs will be added to the area to make traveling in the area smoother, the festival promised.
Article corrected on 3.11. 6:11 p.m.: Contrary to what was said earlier in the article, Capaldi has performed once before in Finland.