Other events in Baltic States

The traditional annual Tallinn Old Town Days festival that takes place for the 30th year, opens this Saturday, on May 28, LETA/Postimees Online reports.

The motto of the festival is this year “A City with A Open Heart” and the festival is a part of the European Culture Capital year events.

The extensive programme of the festival includes performances of the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra ERSO, chamber orchestra St.-Peterburg Symphonieta, Estonian police and border guard orchestra, pianist Rein Rannap, the folk group Svjata Vatra, Turkish group Baba Zula, theatres from Hungary and Korea and Royal OperaJazz.

Dozens of concerts, performances, fairs, lectures and excursions take place. International scope is added by theatre festival Tallinn Treff that brings theatres of many states to Tallinn.

The festival is divided into theme days: May 29 is the day of churches; May 30 is the day of sports; May 31 is theatre day; June 1 is children’s day; June 2 is music day, June 3 is museum day; June 4 features a knights tournament and flower ball and June 5 ends the festival with an ERSO concert at the Town Hall Square.