Editing Tallinn (section)

===Lauluväljak===
{{Main|Estonian Song Festival}}

[[File:Estonia - Flickr - Jarvis-4.jpg|thumb|The [[Tallinn Song Festival Grounds]] (Lauluväljak)]]
The '''Estonian Song Festival''' (in Estonian: '''''Laulupidu''''') is a large [[choral]] event, listed by the [[UNESCO]] as a [[Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity|Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity]]. It is held every five years in July on the [[Tallinn Song Festival Grounds]] (''Lauluväljak'') simultaneously with the [[Estonian Dance Festival]].<ref name=celebrations>[http://laulupidu.ee/english/history/ Estonian Song and Dance Celebrations] Estonian Song and Dance Celebration Foundation</ref> The joint choir has comprised more than 30,000 singers performing to an audience of 80,000.<ref name=celebrations /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.delfi.ee/news/paevauudised/eesti/lauluvaljakul-oli-teisel-kontserdil-110-000-inimest?id=24422411|title=Lauluväljakul oli teisel kontserdil 110 000 inimest|website=Delfi|access-date=29 August 2017|archive-date=29 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829161831/http://www.delfi.ee/news/paevauudised/eesti/lauluvaljakul-oli-teisel-kontserdil-110-000-inimest?id=24422411|url-status=live}}</ref>

Estonians have an extensive collection of folk songs, consisting of some 133,000 folk songs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://estonia.eu/about-estonia/culture-a-science/estonian-culture.html|title=Estonia – Estonia is a place for independent minds|website=estonia.ee|access-date=18 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919205342/http://estonia.eu/about-estonia/culture-a-science/estonian-culture.html|archive-date=19 September 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> From 1987, a cycle of mass [[Demonstration (people)|demonstrations]] featuring spontaneous singing of national songs and [[hymn]]s that were strictly forbidden during the years of the Soviet occupation to peacefully resist the oppression. In September 1988, a record 300,000 people, more than a quarter of all [[Estonians]], gathered in Tallinn for a song festival.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/estonias-singing-revolution-1986-1991/|title=Estonia's Singing Revolution (1986–1991)|last=Zunes|first=Stephen|date=April 2009|newspaper=International Center on Nonviolent Conflict|access-date=9 January 2017|archive-date=1 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171101091322/https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/estonias-singing-revolution-1986-1991/|url-status=live}}</ref>
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