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St. Urho's Day - 2009
Roy Kosonen & Inke Sunila reciting, 1st in English, then in Finnish, the poem "The Soldier Boy" - about the "Finnish War" (Feb., 1808 - Sept., 1809) This video recorded in March, 2009, at meeting of "Order of Runeberg", Lodge 205, New Haven, CT, USA
 
Roy Kosonen sings old Finnish-Karelian folk song, called "Reppurin Laulu", which means "The Peddler's Song", composed by the Finnish song-writer Oskari Merikanto, sometime in the late 19th or early 20th century. The lyrics are in the Livvi dialect of the Aunus (Olonets) region of East Karelia, on the north shore of Laatokka (Ladoga). Video recorded in March, 2009, at meeting of "Order of Runeberg", Lodge 205, New Haven, CT, USA.
This 2009 video vs.
2008 video of Roy singing same song:
  • Quality of this 2009 video is better
  • The 2008 video viewed >11,164 times
  • The 2009 video viewed > 8,349 times
  •  2008/9 total views: 19,513 times as of 2/11/15
  • 2008 video (see "St Urho's Day 2008" page) has additional song intro.

 
Ode To St Urho, recited by members & friends of "Order of Runeberg", Lodge 205. This video recorded in March, 2009, at meeting of "Order of Runeberg", Lodge 205, New Haven, CT, USA

It's interesting that this video has been viewed 1,727 times, as of Feb 11,2015