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    Northern Light

    May 05, 2020 2 minutes
    BY SUE FOLEY

    met Finnish guitarist and vocalist Erja Lyytinen in 2005 while on tour in Europe, she struck me as a force to be reckoned with. She had worked tirelessly to become one of the most renowned bluesrock guitarists on the continent. In 2002, she’d opened for Robert Plant and the following year was the only Finnish guitarist to music competition program, picked up the much-coveted European Guitarist of the Year award in 2017, performed in front of 80,000 people in her hometown of Helsinki on New Year’s Eve 2017 and shared the stage with Carlos Santana in 2018, as well as headlined more than 100 shows across Europe per year. Erja’s latest album, (Tuohi Records), includes collaborations with Sonny Landreth and Jennifer Batten. You can learn more about her at .

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