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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Why Europe’s only indigenous tribe started a rap festival in the Arctic circle

It was well past midnight when Mihkku Laiti took to the stage at an open-air music festival in Utsjoki, a Finnish village nestled north of the Arctic Circle.

Despite the hour, Lapland’s famous midnight sun still illuminated the scene; during summer, the sun never sets in Utsjoki, which lies less than 50 kilometres from the Arctic Ocean.

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