Solstice Festival: The Finnish rave beneath the midnight sun

Come for the Solstice, stay for the sublime views, Finnish culture, and eclectic music programme

Solstice Festival: The Finnish rave beneath the midnight sun
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“At Midsummer, we like to sacrifice foreigners,” the boyfriend of Swedish DJ Jessie Granqvist tells me with a cheeky grin. Two planes and a 90-minute drive deep into my journey to Finland’s Solstice Festival, I’ve found myself stranded with a van full of DJs at the side of a Finnish highway, 50 kilometreshellip;

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