November 1949 in Kaustinen) is a Finnish fiddler,[1] violinist and music pedagogue.
He is the uncle of Arto Järvelä, and both of them are members in the successful folk music group JPP, whose roots are the pelimanni tradition from Kaustinen.
In the 2000s (decade), he has so far (2005) been active mainly as music teacher, teaching adults and children in Kaustinen to play the violin using both folk music and classical training, and partly learning by ear.
The children's project in Kaustinen is called Näppärit (roughly "the pluckers").
He also plays an important part in arranging folk music projects including young people from all the Nordic countries, based on the notion that traditional Nordic dance music from the different Nordic countries have much in common.