Oulu Music Festival in March 2013 was the first for the new Artistic Director Jaakko Kuusisto. The more-than-two-weeks-long festival started with a series of chamber music concerts. In addition, the program included great spectacles combining music, dance and drama as well as atmospheric jazz and folk music concerts.
The popular Jesus Christ Superstar musical in the end of the festival was a huge production with altogether 160 performers.