Pan Salmenhaara (b. 1962 in Helsinki, Finland) has studied music and guitar-playing at various institutes in Finland, and played guitar not only as a solo act, but also with various blues and jazz formations: Pan’s Blues Band, Thin Pan Alley, Fujitsu Jazz Allstars (Numazu, Japan), Jazz Partout, and Swing du Nord.
Salmenhaara has performed alone or with the abovementioned bands at most of Finland’s important jazz- and blues festivals, for example at Pori Jazz, Turku Jazz, Linnajazz, Rauma Blues, and Wiapori Winter Blues.
From February 2010 on Salmenhaara is living in Berlin, Germany.