Arto Järvelä (born in 1964 in Hattula, Finland) is a Finnish fiddler and composer.
[1] Because of the many groups and projects he is involved in, he has been called "the busiest man in Finnish folk music".
As a ten-year-old, he started to play the drums and bass guitar in a family band, together with his father.
He played the harmonium (pump organ) in a band of youngsters called Järvelän pikkupelimannit (the small fiddlers from the Järvelä village) until he got good enough on the fiddle to join the group as a fiddler.
Besides having learned to play the traditional route, Järvelä is also trained in the Sibelius Academy's department for folk music, where he nowadays also teaches.