THE land of a thousand lakes plays host to all manner of quirky pastimes. Competitive berry pickers flocked to Suomussalmi in 2016 for the World Championships. Annual wife-carrying contests take place ...

ONE MAY not immediately associate Finland with tango, but this unique musical style has strong roots in this Nordic country. Slovaks were able to get a first taste of it on October 3, first in the ...

AFTER a taster of Finnish tango in 2012, this lesser known musical genre will return to the Slovak capital on May 28. This time, instead of a more intimate, smaller band, famous Finnish tango singer ...

Argentina may have invented it, but it's Finland that's become the tango capital of the world. Not only does it chime with the country's temperament, it helps keep the men sober. Peter Culshaw reports ...

SEINAJOKI, Finland — Every July, this modest Finnish town, population 59,000, transforms several square blocks downtown into a vast dance hall. Stages are erected, tents are put up and thousands of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Finnish tango" sounds like code. Finnish tango's a thing I learned about while peeling my petals from walls at the Tuscaloosa ...

Back in July, there was this article in the New York Times, Finnish Tango: The Passion and the Melancholy. It could come to a surprise to some that such a heated and emotional dance from Argentina ...

Tango originated in the working class districts of Buenos Aires in the late 19th Century, but it has also conquered what is usually a rather sleepy town in the Arctic north of Finland. As far as the ...