{"id":120683,"date":"2023-07-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=120683"},"modified":"2023-07-12T12:43:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T09:43:15","slug":"hiiu-folk-festival-begins-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/hiiu-folk-festival-begins-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiiu Folk Festival begins on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">From July 20-23, the family-friendly Hiiu Folk Festival will take place at various locations around the island of Hiiumaa.&nbsp;The main emphasis of the festival is on Estonian folk music, but performers from outside Estonia will also perform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The four-day-long Hiiu Folk music festival will begin this Thursday, July 20. The festival, which focuses on Estonian folk music, will see performances from well-known local acts including <strong>Mari Kalkun<\/strong>, <strong>Mari J\u00fcrjens<\/strong>, K\u00f5rsikud and others. There will also be some foreign acts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">In addition to concerts at various locations around the island including S\u00f5ru, Kassari and a number of the island\u2019s churches, there is also a full program of other events including nature hikes, workshops and activities for children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The family-friendly festival is free to enter for children aged 13 and younger. Festival passes are available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piletilevi.ee\/est\/piletid\/muusika\/hiiu-folk-2023-festivali-pass-383848\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Piletilevi<\/span><\/a>, it is also possible to buy day tickets as well as tickets for individual concerts on site.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">You can learn more about the festival and the full programme of music and events on the official Hiiu Folk website <a href=\"https:\/\/hiiufolk.ee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">here <\/span><\/a>(there is no English website for this year\u2019s festival). <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; From July 20-23, the family-friendly Hiiu Folk Festival will take place at various locations around the island of Hiiumaa.&nbsp;The &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":88396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[15721,18823,18837,18838,18839,13582,14922,15719],"class_list":["post-120683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-soru-2","tag-hiiu-folk-2","tag-kassari","tag-mari-jurjens","tag-korsikud","tag-hiiumaa-2","tag-folk-music","tag-folk-festival"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120685,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120683\/revisions\/120685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}