Festival participants walk all the way from Freedom Square to the Song Festival Grounds. Entering the facility from the south side, they march past various officials and dignitaries, then exit out the north side. Each club and school from every participating village and town in Estonia is announced as they walk past the stage. The scale of this event is almost unimaginable. After the first two hours, I figured the procession had to be nearing an end. It turned out,  it wasn’t even half way yet.

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