The Covington Parks and Recreation Committee
was established in the winter of 1999 to plan the
first Covington Finnish Music Festival, which
took place the following July. The overwhelming
success of the festival rapidly led the committee
to many more community events and projects
which at that time included the “Annual Finnish
Music Festival," which grew to such a big event,
it was later taken over by the "Finnish Music
Alliance," which now plans, organizes and puts
on the event. The committee designed and
constructed the community pavilion that
now houses the festival and many artistic,
cultural, musical and social events, that continue
to take place through out the year.
Ground breaking for the Pavilion was in the
spring of 2002 and the grand opening was on
July 4, 2003
