{"id":153684,"date":"2025-12-11T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=153684"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:10:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:10:30","slug":"christmas-songs-in-finnish-and-estonian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/christmas-songs-in-finnish-and-estonian\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Songs in Finnish and Estonian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The Finnish community of Tallinn will head out to what many Estonian Finns consider their regular hangout, a bar called Living Room \u00e4t, located next to the Balti Jaama railway station, on Wednesday, 17 December at 18:00. At that time, you can either sing along to or simply listen to <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1226277352689818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">Finland\u2019s most beautiful Christmas carols<\/span><\/a><\/span>, during an evening event jointly created by restaurateur <b>Jukka Tenhunen<\/b>, who settled in the city eight years ago, and the Finnish diaspora.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">If during the Advent weeks you happen to attend one of Estonia\u2019s Christmas concerts, whether ticketed or free, you will very likely experience an aha moment: the melodies are completely familiar, only the words differ. For example, <i>\u201cKilisee, kilisee kulkunen\u201d<\/i> in Estonian becomes <i>\u201cTiliseb, tiliseb aisakell\u201d<\/i>, and <i>\u201cTalven ihmemaa\u201d<\/i> is <i>\u201cTalve v\u00f5lumaa\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">But how can you be in the right place at the right time to hear Christmas music, either in choral arrangements or lighter versions? We share tips on these every Monday in <i>Baltic Guide<\/i>\u2019s \u201c<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/exciting-events-in-estonia-this-week-115\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">Exciting Events in Estonia This Week<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u201d column. You can also browse concerts by top artists and choirs in the calendars of the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.piletilevi.ee\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">Piletilevi<\/span><\/a><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/fienta.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">Fienta<\/span><\/a><\/span> online ticket shops. And today\u201411 December\u2014Facebook\u2019s <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/search?q=j%25C3%25B5ulukontsert&amp;filters=eyJycF9ldmVudHNfbG9jYXRpb246MCI6IntcIm5hbWVcIjpcImZpbHRlcl9ldmVudHNfbG9jYXRpb25cIixcImFyZ3NcIjpcIjEwNjAzOTQzNjEwMjMzOVwifSJ9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">Events page<\/span><\/a><\/span> shows more than 40 results for the keyword <i>j\u00f5ulukontsert<\/i>, or \u201cChristmas concert\u201d in English, just in Tallinn alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">You can listen to Christmas carols for free at the Finnish community\u2019s usual gathering place, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/fienta.com\/et\/segakoor-raudami-joulukontsert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">St. Michael\u2019s Swedish Church<\/span><\/a><\/span>, for example on Tuesday, 16 December from 19:00 onward. At that time, the city\u2019s oldest amateur mixed choir, Raudamm founded in 1922, will perform in the church hall on R\u00fc\u00fctli Street in the Old Town. The evening\u2019s programme includes Estonian-language versions of familiar melodies such as \u201cHow Fair the Earth\u201d, or \u201cMaa on nii kaunis\u201d, \u201cQuietly, Quietly the Christmas Bells\u201d, and Sibelius\u2019s \u201cGive Me No Splendour, Gold, or Pomp\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Finnish community of Tallinn will head out to what many Estonian Finns consider their regular hangout, a bar &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":153652,"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":[283,291,309,13362,16922,17056,26505,26506],"class_list":["post-153684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-music","tag-events","tag-tallinn","tag-christmas","tag-choir","tag-christmas-concert","tag-diaspora","tag-christmas-carols"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153684","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=153684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153686,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153684\/revisions\/153686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}