{"id":52996,"date":"2019-07-08T16:29:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T13:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2019.laulupidu.ee\/?p=52996"},"modified":"2019-07-08T16:29:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T13:29:58","slug":"the-27th-song-and-20th-dance-celebrations-drew-the-largest-number-of-participants-and-spectators-to-concerts-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2019.laulupidu.ee\/en\/news\/the-27th-song-and-20th-dance-celebrations-drew-the-largest-number-of-participants-and-spectators-to-concerts-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The 27th Song and 20th Dance Celebrations drew the largest number of participants and spectators to concerts ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The title of the 150<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>jubilee celebration \u201cMy Fatherland is My Love\u201d will live on in the hearts of singers, dancers and spectators. The artistic teams and organizers thank everyone involved.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The final concert on 7<sup>th<\/sup>July brought 62\u00a0000 ticket buyers to the Song Festival Grounds in Tallinn to join the 35\u00a0000 singers. Saturday\u2019s concert drew 35600 spectators. 33\u00a0000 people attended the three dance performances on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips33'>Peeter Perens<\/span><\/strong>, the artistic director of the Dance Celebration 2019 is not surprised by the lively attendance: \u201cEstonians have needed the Song Celebration for 150 years and will continue to do so in future. The programme has been compiled during the past three years and each piece selected carefully. In addition to old favourites the repertoire must include newly commissioned pieces that would enrich the heritage and challenge the artistic level of our choirs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Celebration in numbers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Support team \u2013 ca 2000 people (including more than 200 first aid workers, 130 members of Defence League to serve 180\u00a0000 soup portions during the week)<\/p>\n<p>1020 choirs and orchestras at the Song Celebration, altogether 32\u00a0302 people. 713 dance groups at the Dance Celebration, a total of 11\u00a0500 dancers and teachers. 74 groups at the folk music celebration with 800 musicians. The procession on Saturday included 47\u00a0000 singers, dancers and musicians.<\/p>\n<p>The jubilee celebration was preceded by 33 days of the \u201cWay of the Flame\u201d. The flame travelled 4200 km from Tartu to Tallinn passing all Estonian counties and reaching 100\u00a0000 people on its way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The next Song and Dance Celebration will take place from 1<sup>st\u00a0<\/sup>to 3<sup>rd\u00a0<\/sup>July 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips33','<figure id=\"attachment_34461\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34461\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img class=\"wp-image-34461\" src=\"https:\/\/2019.laulupidu.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-peo-galeriid\/Portreepildid\/Riina-Varol\/Pildid\/Peeter_Perens_web_35A0396-EditX-390x585.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laulupeo kunstiline juht <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips33'>Peeter Perens<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title of the 150th\u00a0jubilee celebration \u201cMy Fatherland is My Love\u201d will live on in the hearts of singers, dancers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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