Tallinn Old Town
troops sang national songs fighting through the world wars and during the end of eighties,
the Singing Revolution (which started right here on the Song Festival grounds) enabled us to
regain our independence from the Soviet Union. The Estonian national collection of folk
songs comes second only to Ireland. 2007, the first-ever punk-song-choir festival was
organised in Estonia. In 2010 the first ever digital song festivalwas held in Estonia. Our
Night Song Festivals (Öölaulupidu) and (M)Ärkamisaeg (Awakening Time/Noticing Time),
are events held to honour our independence, and are the world's largest music events in the
world in terms of the percentage of population (over 25%) participating! The joint choir on
General Song Celebrations (consisting over 20 000 singers) also owns the title of being the
world's largest permanent choir.
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