Hi......on the last post I forgot to add some photos relevant to what I has written about. So here's a special photo post. Hope these give a little visual insight to the festival season during summer in Estonia.

The crowd in the park for the symphony orchestra concert. A natural amphitheater with folks just sitting on the grass.....fortunately courtesy of Raimu we had seats right at the front.

The pop-up stage with orchestra and opera singer. Beautiful evening, beautiful program.

One of the brass bands that performed in Tartu. This one from Tartu itself performed an amazing medley of tunes from the 'Sound of Music"

 The crowd of 2500 start to assemble for the first of the six nights of the Love Film Festival.Note the big inflatable screen 20  x 16 meters.

 Helve, Merike and Raimu at the night movies waiting for the start at 10pm. You can see we needed some warm clothing. Even at this time near 10pm it is still light.

 Looking back up the town square towards the Town Hall in the background. All this...seating...films...entertainment all provided free by the city of Tartu.

 The latest of our many visitors, our granddaughter Micky and Nathan her boyfriend along with Merike, Raimu and Helve at the summer house in Kulitse.

 Helve chatting with Seto ladies in national costume at the Seto Kingdom Day. They are wearing the very distinctive silver jewellery made and warn by Seto women.

 Leelo singers from the Seto community. This type of ancient traditional song has been recognised by the UNESC Cultural Heritage List

 The Seto Queen for the coming year accepts the Staff of office from representatives of the Seto communities.

The Staff with all its braided belts from each of the separate Seto communities.