US EditionThousands of voices unite in song at traditional choir festival celebrating Estonia’s culture
- The Traditional Song and Dance Celebration attracted tens of thousands of performers and spectators, many in national costume, celebrating Estonia's culture.
- This year’s main event included a sold-out seven-hour concert featuring about 32,000 choir singers.
- Rasmus Puur stated that the popularity increase is due to Estonians' longing for unity amidst global turmoil, particularly related to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
- The festival focuses on dialects and regional languages, emphasizing folk songs and patriotic anthems.
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Thousands of voices unite in song at traditional choir festival celebrating Estonia's culture
Over 21,000 choir singers performed in the rain at Estonia's Song Festival Grounds in Tallinn. The event, part of the traditional Song and Dance Celebration, drew tens of thousands of spectators despite the weather.
Actress Elisabet Reinsalu said in an interview with Oliver Reimann that if one is looking for the essence of Estonianness, the Song Festival forms a large part of it.
Photographer Stina Kase sang under the song arch for the third time, but it's been a long time - she last held a choir singer's hand over twenty years ago during high school. "Yesterday's emotions from the song festival are so fresh and sublime that it's even a little difficult to come out of them," says Stina.
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