Flow Festival

The Flow Festival (abbreviated simply as Flow) is an urban music and arts festival held in Helsinki, Finland. Flow Festival features a diverse range of artists from indie rock to soul and jazz, folk to contemporary club sounds – from both the Finnish and international scenes. Flow Festival is about urban spaces, visual arts, film screenings, talks, design, and food and drinks, in addition to music. The event takes place in the immediate vicinity of downtown Helsinki at the defunct Suvilahti power plant and its industrial surroundings.

The festival features established musical artists, but it is also known for giving new and emerging artists a platform. Flow Festival has featured notable artists such as Iggy Pop, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Kanye West, Lily Allen, The Roots, The Black Keys, Beach House, Kraftwerk, Björk, M.I.A., Bon Iver, Alicia Keys, Kendrick Lamar, Public Enemy, Cat Power, The National, Outkast, Action Bronson, Manic Street Preachers, Vampire Weekend, Iron & Wine, My

The festival drew 84,000 visitors in 2018. More than 140 artists were on the bill. The Flow Festival 2020 has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The next Flow Festival will be held from August 12 to 14, 2022.

Tuomas Kallio, a Finnish music producer, and his friends from the Helsinki-based music collective Nuspirit Helsinki founded Flow Festival. The organizers wanted to bring something new to the Finnish music and urban scene. Since 2004, the Flow Festival has been held annually in the first two weeks of August.

Flow Festival has been held in three different locations over the course of its more than ten-year history. The festival has evolved from a small soul and jazz club event to a significant Northern European music and arts festival with growing international interest.

Takes place: First half of August