Song Festival

On Sunday, President Gitanas Nausėda greeted the Lithuanian Song Festival participants at the flag raising ceremony in Daukantas Square in Vilnius.

Schoolchildren's Song Festival 2020, planned to be held in Vilnius in July, has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Education, Science and Sport Minister Algirdas Monkevicius said on Wednesday.

Over 1,000 events are planned in Lithuania and another 70 abroad next year when the country will celebrate the centenary of its restored statehood.

The Song Celebration, a massive traditional song and dance festival that concluded recently, was not only an opportunity for Lithuanians home and abroad to gather together but also a chance for the young generation to see the conditions under which their parents once lived. One part of the guests wa...

At the final concert of the Song Celebration in Vingio Park, Minister of Culture Šarūnas Birutis presented the badge of honour "Carry Your Light and Believe" to Vytautas Miškinis, composer, artistic director and chief conductor of the Song Celebration.

More than 300 loaves of bread will be distributed to residents and guests of Vilnius city in the Cathedral Square on 4 July. The Folklore Day of the Song Celebration 2014, which will start with the symbolic bread-bringing ritual, will fill the capital with a variety of old traditions, and flood the ...