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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70,000 spectators, 990 choirs, 30,000 singers – Estonia is again in a song rush. During the "singing revolution" the country broke free from the Soviet Union without violence – now it wants to defy new threats.
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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.
The singer-songwriter is the great guest of the choral festival of Alès and will share the stage with 1,000 singers in the arenas of the Temperas on 1 and 2 August. Meeting.
Estonia’s 2025 Song Celebration unites 130,000 voices in Tallinn
When the ceremonial flame is lit beneath Tallinn’s iconic Song Arch on 5 July, it will signal the return of one of Europe’s most remarkable cultural gatherings: Estonia’s Song Celebration. Held every five years, this event is no ordinary festival. It is a profound expression of national character, where music, language and memory converge. For a small country long familiar with the forces of occupation and upheaval, it is a public declaration of…
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