Värttinä
Värttinä( meaning" spindle") is a Finnish folk music band that started as a project by Sari and Mari Kaasinen in 1983 in the village of Rääkkylä, in Karelia, the southeastern region of Finland.
Many transformations have taken place in the band since then.
Värttinä shot into fame with the release of their 1991 album" Oi Dai".
As of 2009, the band consists of three lead female vocalists supported by three acoustic musicians.
The vocalists sing in the Karelian dialect of the Finnish language.
In August 2005, Värttinä recorded their tenth studio album called" Miero" at Finnvox Studios, Helsinki.
It was released on 25 January 2006 in Finland, and 30 January 2006 worldwide.
In 2006, Värttinä also released the Värttinä Archive Live DVD, which included material from their 20th anniversary concert and other new and archive material.
Värttinä collaborated with A. R. Rahman, a famous composer from India, in composing the music for the theatrical adaptation of" The Lord of the Rings," which played in Toronto in 2006 and in London in 2007.
Värttinä has been featured on popular children's show Arthur singing their hit song" Matalii ja Mustii" from the album" Seleniko".
The song was also featured on the show's first soundtrack,.
The Back Porch Majority
The Back Porch Majority was an American folk music group founded by Randy Sparks in 1963.
It was intended to be a rehearsal space for The New Christy Minstrels, another group Sparks had established in 1961, but it ended up becoming successful on its own.
The group released six albums, appeared on several TV shows and was chosen to provide entertainment at the White House in 1965.
The Back Room
The Back Room may refer to:
Back Porch Bluegrass
Back Porch Bluegrass is the debut album by bluegrass quartet
The Dillards.
"Dooley" and "Duelin' Banjo" were both released as singles.
Back Porch Video
Back Porch Video was one of the first cable television-based music video programs.
It premiered on January 28, 1984 and was created of Russ Gibb, former owner of the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, Michigan.
Shown out of Westinghouse's Group W Cable studios in Dearborn, Michigan, Back Porch Video stayed on the air for the better part of 16 years.
What made Back Porch Video unique was that it was crewed and hosted primarily by area high school students.
The program aired live in Dearborn from 10pm - 1am on Saturday nights.
The show expanded to 9pm - 1am after about one year of cablecasting, adding additional hosts.
The program saw a short run of three programs broadcast nationwide on Detroit's PBS station WTVS Channel 56.
In 1985, Back Porch Video won a CableACE Award.
Randy Sparks
Randy Sparks( born July 29, 1933, Leavenworth, Kansas) is an American musician, singer- songwriter and founder of The New Christy Minstrels and The Back Porch Majority.
Stab in the back (disambiguation)
A stab in the back may refer to:
2001–02 UEFA Champions League second group stage
Eight winners and eight runners- up from the first group stage were drawn into four groups of four teams, each containing two group winners and two runners- up.
Teams from the same country or from the same first round group could not be drawn together.
The top two teams in each group advanced to the quarter- finals.
Back Porch Records
Back Porch Records is an Americana/roots rock label owned by Universal Music Group.
The label was started in 1997 as joint venture between Virgin Records and Milwaukee-based Narada Productions.
The label's initial releases, including the I-10 Chronicles compilations, were produced by Virgin Records executives Ken Peterson and John Wooler.
Roughly three years after launch, Peterson and Wooler left Virgin Records and the label became a full-time concern for Narada.
The Milwaukee-based label was run by Narada president Wesley Van Linda, who appointed Rich Denhart (VP of A&R) and Mike Bailey (Label Manager/A&R) to head Back Porch.
In 2005, David Neidhart succeeded the retiring Van Linda as head of Narada Productions and, along with Denhart and Bailey, oversaw albums by the Subdudes, Alejandro Escovedo, Over the Rhine, The Neville Brothers, John Hammond, Frank Black, Charlie Sexton, Shannon McNally, and Carrie Rodriguez.
In 2006, EMI closed the Narada offices in Milwaukee.
Some Back Porch employees remained with EMI and became part of the Blue Note Label Group (Blue Note Records, Manhattan Records, Narada Productions, Higher Octave Music, Back Porch Records) in New York City headed by Bruce Lundvall and Ian Ralfini.
Ralfini and Mike Bailey consolidated the rosters of Manhattan and Back Porch and released albums by Emerson Hart, Rosanne Cash, Alejandro Escovedo, Van Morrison, and Carrie Rodriguez.
In 2009, Mike Bailey, who remained the labels one constant throughout its duration, left EMI.
Back Porch is a dormant imprint.
The catalog is part of EMI Music.
Back (disambiguation)
The back is the large posterior area of the human body, rising from the top of the buttocks to the back of the neck and the shoulders.
Back may also refer to:

Question: Are Värttinä and The Back Porch Majority from the same country?
Answer: no