Hilarious Proms encore with audience participation

August 10, 2016 3:20 PM

Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto performs and has the audience perform with him a Finnish folk song My Darling is Beautiful (Minun kultani kaunis on).
posted by severiina (5 comments total)

Björk sang and played that song as a child.
posted by Kattullus at 4:01 PM on August 10, 2016 [4 favorites]

I was kind of expecting some leek-spinning there.
posted by moonmilk at 4:15 PM on August 10, 2016 [1 favorite]

This is great. Thanks for posting it.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 6:05 PM on August 10, 2016

So great! What a joy to watch, must have been twice as good to be there. I love it when seriously serious musicians have fun.
posted by greenish at 7:27 AM on August 11, 2016 [1 favorite]

“The violinist had the audience on their feet…"

It was a promenade concert: much of the audience was on their feet the whole time :-)

(The Proms audience is rather special though, and they do respond well to artists who return the love.)
posted by Quinbus Flestrin at 9:04 PM on August 12, 2016