Tallinn Song Festival

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7 July 2019

The final day of Tallinn’s musical festival when for nearly nine hours, in a purpose built amphitheatre, a choir of over 20,000 entertained a crowd exceeding 100,000 with a range of Estonian songs. It only takes place every five years

We walked to the event, planning to see the last few hours when the choir is at its largest. To begin with we were quite depressed because there seemed to be no room available to sit on the huge grass bank which overlooks the stadium. But after about 15 minutes we noticed a couple leaving and tripping over numerous legs we got there first and secured our place. Then followed a unique experience as the songs reflecting Estonian’s love of their homeland made the crowd become increasingly passionate in their support of the choir.

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Then even more appeared for the finale until there was little gap between choir and audience. After each song there were huge cheers and everyone excitingly waved their Estonian flags. The flame on the tower to the right was extinguished during the last s
ong