Ladies take centre stage at this year's Helsinki Festival The Finns come to life in the summer months after what is invariably a long, cold winter. Visitors to the country's cities will begin to observe smiles on the faces of the normally rather dour inhabitants, and hark - could that be joyous music drifting into earshot?

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