Leyla McCalla (US) is probably familiar to the Finnish audience from the group Carolina Chocolate Drops, but now she proceeds steadily on her own path as a solo artist, whose intimate interpretations appeal to friends of all sorts of roots music.

Leyla McCalla is not afraid to speak up on difficult themes like racism or what it means to be American - to sing in creole and bring out her Haitian roots is also a statement on that subject. “When you have a political leader - - - saying ‘Let’s build a wall’, well, let’s start in Alaska, because if you go back in history of whose is whose, none of it is ours”, she says in an interview in fRoots magazine.