Lauri Tähkä & Elonkerjuu

Lauri Tähkä & Elonkerjuu
Lauri Tähkä & Elonkerjuu performing at IskelmäNiityt in 2010
Background information
Origin	Teuva, Finland
Genres	Folk rock
Years active	1995–2011 (with Lauri Tähkä as lead) 2011–present (with Juha Lagström as lead)
Labels	Universal Music Oy (2006–2011)
Website	lauritahka.com elonkerjuu.com
Members	Juha Lagström Johanna Koivu Simo Ralli Antero Naali Lenni Paarma
Past members	Lauri Tähkä

Elonkerjuu is a Finnish folk rock band. Starting 2011, Juha Lagström is lead singer of the band. With the new name, they signed with Sony Music Entertainment. The band had started in the mid-1990s, with lead singer Lauri Tähkä and was known from 1996 until 2011 as Lauri Tähkä & Elonkerjuu. They were signed since 2006 with Universal Music Finland.

During the first years, the band based its songs on traditional music from Southern Ostrobothnia. Later, they started to write the lyrics by themselves, but the themes are still connected to rural life and the language used is Southern Ostrobothnian dialect.

Lauri Tähkä & Elonkerjuu 2006 album Maailma on renki went platinum. The next album, Tuhannen riemua got a gold record on the date of its publication, and double platinum in ten weeks. Until early 2008, that album has sold over 80,000 copies.

In March 2011 the singer Lauri Tähkä announced that the band's career is over. Later the rest of the band announced that they will continue under the name Elonkerjuu and in January 2012 Juha Lagström was chosen as their new vocalist.

(Charting in The Official Finnish Charts)