Bright red berries dot the roadside and we pull off on a small turn-out and park. My dad and I, and my dog, Kéet, survey our surroundings: bull pine and spruce draped with moss, a soggy muskeg and ...

'Ladies and gentlemen," says the pilot, "we are now crossing the Arctic Circle." The chill thrill this announcement creates is some compensation for the disappointment of the flight from Oslo to ...

Adjagas's music is based around the concept of the yoik. The yoik, says Lawra Somby, is a traditional music form which describes something not with words but with sounds. You can start a yoik where ...

The passing on of musical tradition is fundamental to any culture, but so too is innovation, which breathes new life into old ways. Mojhtestasse, the second album by Norwegian south Saami singer Marja ...

Finnish yoik singing on The Music Review - a listener says he hasn't 'laughed so much in weeks' at this 'deadpan satire'. Defence of Steve Wright following a listener calling him racist because he ...

Europe's only indigenous people are demanding their rights in Brussels, which are threatened by the ecological transition and the lack of EU policies. The Sami people live in Lapland, in the far north ...

The task is simple: walk or die.

Ciamar a’ tha a’ Yoik a’ dìon fèidh-shneachda ann an Dùthaich nan Sàmi. Seumas MacLetchie journeys to meet a Sami yoik artist in Finnish Lapland. Show more Dh'fhoghlam Seumas Macletchie mun ...