SOng festival
Song Festival
The first song festival started the tradition of Estonian national song festivals, wich
took place in 18-20 June 1869. The initiator of the idea and the arranger of the
enterprise was a choral society ,,Vanemuine" in the June in 1869. Song festivals
turned to musical big enterprise, which took place in present singing field in Kadriorg
in 1928.
There were 822 singers,56 instrumentalists, 47 male choirs and 4 brass bands. The
number of participant, who were in song festival, still growed and since the fourth
festival in 1891 joined also mixed chorus. In 1933 accrued as a participants women's
chorus. There were about 1500 spectators.
Nowadays there are much more people when it were at that time. Now the singing
festival are once in every 5 years. Estonian general singing festival took place in 1.-
4. July in 2004 in Tallinn. Male choirs, women's chorus, children choirs, boys choirs
an...