Erja Lyytinen & Friends: Blue Christmas - with guests Jussu Pöyhönen & Petra Gargano

Name: Erja Lyytinen & Friends: Blue Christmas - with guests Jussu Pöyhönen & Petra Gargano
Start: 2026-12-17T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-12-17T22:00:00+02:00
Location: konsertti- ja kongressitalo mikaeli

Thu, 17 Dec 2026 · 19:00

konsertti- ja kongressitalo mikaeli, Mikkeli

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Erja Lyytinen & Friends: Blue Christmas arrives in Mikkeli on Thursday, 17 December at the konsertti- ja kongressitalo mikaeli. Guest artists Petra Gargano and Jussu Pöyhönen join the tour. This is a traditional Christmas tour spanning nine venues across Finland. The concert runs approximately two hours and features collaborative numbers, solo performances, and rock arrangements of Christmas songs backed by Lyytinen's band. The programme blends classic Christmas tradition with contemporary rock interpretation.

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About: Erja Lyytinen

Kuopio-born slide guitar queen Erja Lyytinen brings over two decades of blues-rock to the stage, backed by thirteen studio albums and awards from Europe and North America. Expect raw, energetic playing that draws on classic blues while pushing firmly into hard rock territory.

83K

Facebook followers

37K

Instagram followers

Studio albums released

100+

Approximate headline shows per year

What's new

2026-05
Lyytinen announced a Blue Christmas 2026 tour with guests Petra Gargano and Jussu Pöyhönen.
2026-02
Lyytinen announced a 50th Birthday UK and European tour for October 2026, with seven UK dates spanning Dudley, Sedgefield, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Oxford and London.
2025-03
Her thirteenth studio album "Smell the Roses" was released in March 2025 and reached #6 on the UK Independent Blues Broadcasters chart in April.

Tour

DudleySedgefieldEdinburghSheffieldOxfordLondonTurkuOuluJyväskyläBonnErfurtTorgauImatraLahtiSalzburgBielefeld

Tracks

Smell the RosesTitle track of 2025 studio album; #6 on UK IBBA charts

Bad SeedLead single from 2022 album; guitar solo ranked #10 in Guitar World's Best Guitar Solo of 2022 readers poll

Diamonds on the RoadLive album (2023) celebrating 20-year career, widely praised in international music press

Wildflower2004 debut solo album; launched her international career

Stolen Hearts2017 studio album; followed by European Blues Award for Best Guitarist

Recent shows

Aug 15, 2026 Siula, Saariselkä (FI)
Jul 24, 2026 Paperitori, Valkeakoski (FI)
Jul 4, 2026 Vanhankylänniemi, Järvenpää (FI)

About: Petra Gargano

Once the teenage face of Tiktak - Finland's biggest girl band of the 2000s - Petra Gargano now performs her own electric-rock material as a solo artist, backed by a 2026 comeback single and a freshly published memoir.

250,000+

Tiktak records sold in Finland

Solo studio albums released since 2009

What's new

2026-03
Petra Gargano released the single Vahvana - her first release on her own label Petra Music Oy - in early March 2026, featuring Tuomas Kauhanen.
2026-03
Her debut book Comeback (Tammi), the first published account of Tiktak's history, was released on 11 March 2026 and celebrated with a gig at On The Rocks in Helsinki.
2026-03
Gargano adopted her full name Petra Gargano as her artist name in March 2026, having previously performed simply as Petra.

Tracks

HeilutaanTiktak's signature summer hit, one of the most-played Finnish pop songs of its era

LopetaOne of Tiktak's best-known singles

SankaritarFan favourite from the Tiktak catalogue

Kuka mä oonPetra's debut solo single, released February 2009

Vahvana2026 comeback single on own label Petra Music Oy, feat. Tuomas Kauhanen

Erja Lyytinen & Friends: Blue Christmas - with guests Jussu Pöyhönen & Petra Gargano

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