Day 47. Lithuanian Schoolchildren's Song Festival. Part I. Song Day & July 6.

Lithuanian Schoolchildren's Song Festival is an amazing massive culture event in which schoolchildren from all over Lithuania perform jointly in three main concerts: Song Day, Dance Day and Evening of Essemblies.

Traditionally Song Day is held in on July 6 in Vingis Park.

ok. First of all, what is July 6 for Lithuania and Lithuanians? 

On July 6 (Statehood Day) Lithuania celebrates State Day of Lithuania (Coronation Day of King Mindaugas). One of the three main National Holidays in Lithuania.

Official programme of the Statehood Day is presented here.

Traditionally, at 12 p.m. Lithuanian State flag hoisting ceremony takes place at Simonas Daukantas Square in front of the Presidential Palace.

And now, about Song Day. Song Day You are the only one for us concert, as I said, took place in Vingis Park and started at 6 p.m.

For me - this concert, and the other two concerts forming Song Festival are so solemn and so unique. You can just imagine how a simple song sounds when it's performed by over 10,000 schoolchildren standing under Amphitheatre of Vingis Park! 
It's abolutely amazing and it's unforgetable!
But it's subjective :)

Well, the President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė is late a bit :)

Lithuania, on July 6 has one more tradition:

At 9 p.m. campaign For Sake of this Land Let Unity Blosom takes place, all Lithuaninans over the world are encouraged to stop for a moment and to sing the National Anthem.  

Here are some traditional songs, that are permormed in almost every Song Celebration.

Suktinis Nepaskutinis (Bitute Pilkoji):

Palinko liepa salia kelio feat. Thundertale:

And one more: called simply Lietuva:

The whole concert could be found on www.lrt.lt/mediateka somewhere here. 

 

And here you can jump to Part II. Dance Day.