Song and Dance Festival

For those not in Estonia this is what is going on at the moment here in Tallinn. The Song Festival is coming up over the weekend, but first it's the Dance Festival. Here's a video of the final dress rehearsal. You may think the crowd is a bit small, but it's worth noting that they just let in people who were deported in Soviet times for the final practice. The actual festival has sold out. This thing is a HUGE deal here. If you don't understand why. watch this!



It's really interesting to see so many people walking around the streets in National Costume. The stadium where they hold the dance festival is just down the road from our place, so we have seen the busloads of people making their way there over the last few days. It makes me wonder what it would be like if people still dressed like that every day. It'd would be kind of cool, but pretty uncomfortable i guess.