{"id":11596,"date":"2019-07-07T21:54:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T20:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=11596"},"modified":"2023-06-01T21:20:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T20:20:11","slug":"daily_1653_-_song_festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2019\/07\/07\/daily_1653_-_song_festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1653 – song festival"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThis year’s song festival was the festival’s 150th jubilee. I can’t say whether it was grander than the “ordinary” ones, I haven’t been to enough of these to have anything to compare to. But it was pretty darn impressive. 100,000 people on the festival grounds, 30,000 performers and 70,000 in the audience. Around the 100,000 person mark, ticket sales were simply stopped for security reasons.<\/p>\n

I heard that there were plenty of people who had come from afar and hoped to buy tickets at the gate, and were then turned away. Initially the weather forecast had promised really crappy weather, so people had made other plans and then changed them last minute.<\/p>\n

The forecast promised not just rain all day long, but pouring rain all weekend, and the days before and after. The grounds would have been a morass of mud in that case! But the closer we got to the event itself, the less rain the forecasts contained, and in the end we didn’t get a single drop. It was pretty cold though. We’re not used to 12 degree weather after our week in Mallorca.<\/p>\n

Even with the ticket sales stopped, the grounds were absolutely packed. We sat up at the very back like last year, and even up there it was cramped. Luckily we were early and had no trouble finding space for our picnic blankets. But towards the end, we had to pull in our blankets to make space.
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This year’s song festival was the festival’s 150th jubilee. I can’t say whether it was grander than the “ordinary” ones, I haven’t been to enough of these to have anything to compare to. But it was pretty darn impressive. 100,000 people on the festival grounds, 30,000 performers and 70,000 in the audience. Around the 100,000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,780,768,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-estonia","category-photography-2","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11599,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11596\/revisions\/11599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}