Punk fans rock out in Rakvere to choir music in 2008. Photo by Henrico.
RAKVERE, Estonia — Have you attended a Baltic song festival before? Well, picture it with the singers wearing not wearing traditional folk costumes but instead done up in leather, noserings and mohawks.
It’s not often you get to hear a choir perform “God Save the Queen” or “London’s Burning.” Well, if you sometimes fantasized about [private_supervisor]it during a church choir performance, you’ll finally get to see the real thing in Estonia next year.
Two years ago the Baltic states’ first punk song festival was held in a small town Rakvere in northern Estonia. Next year when Tallinn gains the European Capital of Culture title, the festival’s initiator Üllar Saaremäe, an Estonian actor and punk band Streptococcus Pyogenes vocalist is bringing it back bigger and better.
The song festival, this incarnation to be called “Anarchy in the EU” is expected to draw around around 2,500 singers to perform punk classics. In 2008 festival attracted around 8,000 spectators, and next year the audience is projected to be much larger.
“I believe that the international punk song festival will be an event to test how many people will fit in Rakvere,” Rannar Vassiljeb, the mayor of Rakvere told the daily Postimees. [/private_supervisor] [private_subscription 1 month]it during a church choir performance, you’ll finally get to see the real thing in Estonia next year.
Two years ago the Baltic states’ first punk song festival was held in a small town Rakvere in northern Estonia. Next year when Tallinn gains the European Capital of Culture title, the festival’s initiator Üllar Saaremäe, an Estonian actor and punk band Streptococcus Pyogenes vocalist is bringing it back bigger and better.
The song festival, this incarnation to be called “Anarchy in the EU” is expected to draw around around 2,500 singers to perform punk classics. In 2008 festival attracted around 8,000 spectators, and next year the audience is projected to be much larger.
“I believe that the international punk song festival will be an event to test how many people will fit in Rakvere,” Rannar Vassiljeb, the mayor of Rakvere told the daily Postimees. [/private_subscription 1 month] [private_subscription 4 months]it during a church choir performance, you’ll finally get to see the real thing in Estonia next year.
Two years ago the Baltic states’ first punk song festival was held in a small town Rakvere in northern Estonia. Next year when Tallinn gains the European Capital of Culture title, the festival’s initiator Üllar Saaremäe, an Estonian actor and punk band Streptococcus Pyogenes vocalist is bringing it back bigger and better.
The song festival, this incarnation to be called “Anarchy in the EU” is expected to draw around around 2,500 singers to perform punk classics. In 2008 festival attracted around 8,000 spectators, and next year the audience is projected to be much larger.
“I believe that the international punk song festival will be an event to test how many people will fit in Rakvere,” Rannar Vassiljeb, the mayor of Rakvere told the daily Postimees. [/private_subscription 4 months] [private_subscription 1 year]it during a church choir performance, you’ll finally get to see the real thing in Estonia next year.
Two years ago the Baltic states’ first punk song festival was held in a small town Rakvere in northern Estonia. Next year when Tallinn gains the European Capital of Culture title, the festival’s initiator Üllar Saaremäe, an Estonian actor and punk band Streptococcus Pyogenes vocalist is bringing it back bigger and better.
The song festival, this incarnation to be called “Anarchy in the EU” is expected to draw around around 2,500 singers to perform punk classics. In 2008 festival attracted around 8,000 spectators, and next year the audience is projected to be much larger.
“I believe that the international punk song festival will be an event to test how many people will fit in Rakvere,” Rannar Vassiljeb, the mayor of Rakvere told the daily Postimees. [/private_subscription 1 year]
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