{"id":288,"date":"2015-02-17T20:34:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T20:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yourweeklylisten.com\/?p=288"},"modified":"2015-02-17T20:34:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T20:34:01","slug":"adorable-finnish-girl-sings-and-plays-a-ladybug-lullaby-viola-uotila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/music\/adorable-finnish-girl-sings-and-plays-a-ladybug-lullaby-viola-uotila\/","title":{"rendered":"Adorable Finnish Girl Sings and Plays a Ladybug Lullaby: Viola Uotila"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/arthame.fi\/2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Lehtikuva-11Viola-Uotila-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">VIola Uotila<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here is the lovely Viola Uotila singing a traditional Finnish lullaby entitled &#8220;Lenna Lenna Leppakertu&#8221; (Fly, Fly, Ladybug) in her native Finnish, and accompanying herself on a <i>kantele<\/i>.The kantele is the national musical instrument of Finland. It resembles a dulcimer and is a member of the psaltery family (see my posts about Joni Mitchell, 12\/16\/14 and Grego and Mazja, 11\/30\/14, for more about psalteries and dulcimers).<\/p>\n<p>This is a traditional Finnish &#8220;Kalevala&#8221; lullaby. &#8220;Kalevala&#8221; is the name given to the Finnish oral tradition in poetry and contains work dating as far back as  the Iron age. The poems survived as a singing tradition and were collected and published by Elias L\u00f6nnrot in the mid-1800s. <\/p>\n<p>This little traditional song about a ladybug is still sung to Finnish children by their parents as a lullaby. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DVsX_kKPW9c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the lovely Viola Uotila singing a traditional Finnish lullaby entitled &#8220;Lenna Lenna Leppakertu&#8221; (Fly, Fly, Ladybug) in her native Finnish, and accompanying herself on a kantele.The kantele is the national musical instrument of Finland. It resembles a dulcimer and is a member of the psaltery family (see my posts about Joni Mitchell, 12\/16\/14 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.misscharlottemusic.com\/yourweeklylisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}