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| | Laulupidu (ENG) > History > Song Celebrations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | The nationwide Song Festival tradition began with the first Song Festival in Tartu, June 18- 20, 1869. |
 | | This was mostly due to the growing hobby of singing and wind-instrument playing in the first half of the 18th century (in Kanepi, Põlva, Laiuse, Torma, Põltsamaa and in other places of Estonia). |
 | | Common singing days were held- choirs gathered to sing in Anseküla (1863), in Jõhvi (1865), in Uulu (1867) etc. In the 19th century, Estonia was a province of a Russian Empire where German upper class landlords ruled the Estonian lower class- the peasants. |
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