Päritud laulud lastele

Lauri Õunapuu and the Estonian National Male Choir Conductor Mikk Üleoja The Estonian National Male Choir and Lauri invite teachers and school students to the concert hall during the week before Estonia’s Independence Day. In a programme the length of a school lesson, we will sing together melodies for traditional calendar holidays and enjoy some genial storytelling. You can join in the singing and be surrounded by song—when else will you get the chance to sit right among the singers in a concert hall? Lauri Õunapuu, who describes himself as an amateur folklorist, revives and passes on Estonia’s traditional old-style song culture on several fronts. Alongside teaching folk music and leading the Society for Archaic Male Singing, his genial bass voice is familiar from the Vikerraadio segment “Päritud laul”. Lauri is also a mainstay of the Estonian metal scene as a member of the band Metsatöll, and through him the bagpipes, zithers and whistles have found their way into Estonian heavy music.