Helsinki Hudson

Helsinki Tea Company and Club Helsinki was founded in 1995 as the inspiration of Deborah McDowell, who was looking to share her love of community, tea, good food and music with the Berkshires, hearkening back to her family of artists and the years her grandfather spent operating the Hotel Helsinki in Finland. Two years later, Columbia County native Marc Schafler, whose family owned Camp Natchez on the edge of the Borscht belt, joined her and Club Helsinki was born and began its unparalleled history of presenting some the finest musicians, activists, poets and lecturers from around the world.