Music

With its magnificent views and unreal atmosphere created by the midnight Sun, Solstice can feel like an extended daydream. This feeling is enhanced with a carefully curated music program featuring international guests, local legends, and rising talents spread across multiple stages.

From peaktime music to serene ambient oceans of sound, Solstice caters to a broad spectrum of sonic experiences. Lay down, dance wild.

Peak Stage, sitting literally on the peak of Ruka, hosts boundaryless high-octane dance music inside a ski-lift station.
Valley Stage, where a wooden dance floor bounces right at the tree line is where psychedelic groove meets heavy basslines meets house music, making it impossible to stop smiling (& shaking one’s rump).
Kelo Tent is where you can sit down and get lost. Kelo hosts a few selectors and a flush of live performances ranging from ambient to experimental and beyond.
The Hut will be a new addition to the Solstice stage family this year. An intimate 150 capacity dance floor overlooking the northern trees. We'll be transmitting live from there with NYC's The Lot Radio.

SOLSTICE AFTER HOURS

Every day from 1 AM we let the hill take a rest and continue the mood with Solstice After Hours at ski lodge Piste, located just at the root of Rukatunturi, in to Ruka Village. Check the full information here.

Avery

Behind The TreesLive

Bella Sarris b2b Jessie Granqvist

CEM

Cool DJ Pinball

deep creep

Denzel b2b Joni DJ

Desto b2b Mary Young

DJ Fart In The Club

DJ GL4 aka Glayden b2b Otis

DJ Koolt

DJ Masda

DJ Storm

Hitoshi b2b Justus

Illyana

Ilpo Väisänen: I-LP-O IN DUBLive

IslajaLive

Jek

Jori Hulkkonen

KaterinaLive

Kiernan Laveaux

KMRULive

KofuLive

Krash Bandicute b2b Nea2k

Lara Silva

livwutang

Loidis

LYZZA

mad miran

Mad ProfessorLive Dub Show

Miss Jay

Mono JunkLive

Ojelma

OK Williams

Ozan

Peach b2b C.K

RAMZiLive

RHR

Saffet

Saint Nia

Sala

Sallidoing

Sansibar b2b Spekki Webu

SepehrLive

Simo Vassinen: (B)RAVE INTENTIONSLive

Where does the party start and where does it end? Hosted by Simo Vassinen with music by Solstice artists, this gathering invites festival-goers to investigate their (b)rave intentions through movement, soundscapes and streams of consciousness. We go through flows of dynamic meditation, somatic chaos and psychoanalysis-inspired talking and writing. We explore shared questions: How does the Night inform the Day? What do we do with the info picked up on the dancefloor? What do we bring there and what do we bring back? This is not group therapy, this is an act of togetherness where we lean on other bodies in a shared space to align our minds and access new thinking and intentionality. Bring a notebook and pen if easy – some writing supplies are also available.   

Facilitated by Simo Vassinen – dancer, bodyworker and somatic facilitator working in Helsinki, Berlin and around Europe with a background in futures research, journalism and many dancefloors.  

Skee Mask

Sonja Moonear

Sophia MitikuLive

Sugar Free

Tiia Kasurinen & Keliel: SONGBIRDLive

Songbird is a performance combining contemporary choreography, practices of performing music and the tools of camp-aesthetics and drag. Inspired by the philosopher and poet Anne Carson’s essay ‘The Gender of Sound‘, the performance reflects on the identity of voice, choreographies of the vocal cords, femininity and vulnerability.

In the performance, ‘Songbird’ meets her audience through sounds, songs, vocal cords, lyrics, costumes and dance. How do choreographies of vocal cords spread through space? What do pitches, frequencies and modes of expression cause in the spectator? How do the use of voice and embodiment intersect? Music of the performance is by Keliel.

Toma Kami

TrickponyLive

unaLive

Verraco

Vladimir Ivkovic

Wekesa

XIAOLINLive

Yawning PortalLive