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Fields

Culture is an integrated whole. Culture Chest highlights five major fields in Estonian folk culture in order to help you find your way in this whole.

It would help you immensely if you were already familiar with Estonian Song and Dance Festivals. However, these five major fields offer you a possibility to perceive the background of Estonian folk culture more thoroughly.

Fields
Folk Song and Song Festival
Folk Dance and Dance Festival
Traditional Instruments and Music
Traditional Costumes
Folk Calendar Holidays

Fotod

Shrove Tuesday,
Calendar feasts and practices

  • Shrove Tuesday,
  • Tallinn Song Festival Ground. Photo by A.Nilsson
  • Leigarid perform in the Open Air Museum
  • Drum and fiddle. Players: Jaan Türk and Jaan Palu
  • Võrkvöö. Kolga-Jaani.

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