Anssi Kela: Nummela 25th Anniversary Tour

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Tickets go on sale Wednesday, 6^th May 2026 at 10 AM.

Tickets 44.90/39.90/32.40 €
Pensioners, students, unemployed, and military/civil service personnel 39.90/34.90/27.40 €

Doors open approximately half an hour before the performance. Showtime is at 7 PM. The estimated duration is 2 hours, including an approximately 30-minute intermission.

Did you know you can enjoy refreshments in the auditorium during this performance?
The stalls (main floor) of the Main Auditorium are designated as an 18+ area. Ticket holders for this section may bring drinks purchased before the show or during the intermission into the auditorium. Please note that the age limit of 18 for the licensed seating area is strict, and minors are not permitted in this section.

Anssi Kela sets out on the Nummela 25th Anniversary Tour!

Anssi Kela’s debut album Nummela, released in 2001, quickly became a generational experience and helped define the Finnish music scene of the early 2000s. Now Kela celebrates the album’s 25th anniversary with a tour, after which he will take his first longer break from live performances in his career. The tour includes fourteen concerts, with tickets going on sale on Wednesday, 6^th May. Kela will perform at Tampere Hall on Saturday, 28^th November 2026.

The concert will feature all the songs from the album. The setlist includes enduring hits that have been part of people’s life stories for decades—such as Puistossa, Milla, Mikan faijan BMW, and Nummela—as well as songs that haven’t been performed live in years. Special stage design will recreate the world of the Nummela album. Between songs, Kela has promised to share stories behind the music. The concerts are divided into two parts: after the intermission, the audience will hear hits from Kela’s other albums.

“Back in the day, Nummela was music that brought generations together. For the artist, it’s incredibly rewarding to see how meaningful these songs have been to so many people and how they’ve accompanied them through life. Their significance becomes tangible at live shows. This tour is about returning to the year 2001 — to the moment when these songs were new, and we ourselves might have been a bit younger,” says Anssi Kela.

Kela’s first album, Nummela, was released in March 2001. It debuted at number 14 on the album chart, hovered in the top ten for weeks, and eventually climbed to number one in June—fifteen weeks after release. The album remained on the chart for 57 weeks in total, including 16 weeks at number one. It has sold five times platinum, totaling approximately 160,000 copies. Four of its nine tracks became major hits: Mikan faijan BMW (the first single), Kaksi sisarta, Puistossa, and the title track Nummela. A songbook was also released, including a studio diary and short essays about the songs.

To celebrate the album’s triple-platinum edition, the single Milla was released in November 2001 and became the biggest hit of Kela’s career up to that point. It was released both as a standalone single and as part of a new edition of Nummela. Milla is considered the best-selling single in Finnish recording history, with 10,000 copies sold as an individual single and nearly 50,000 as part of the album.

The hits from Nummela are still played on the radio and have amassed nearly 40 million streams on Spotify alone. All songs on the album were written by Anssi Kela, who also produced most of the record himself.

Subject to change.

Production: Tampere Hall and Live Nation