Kevatjuhla

Every spring for the last 21 years the city of Joensuu holds a concert to mark the end of school and the beginning of summer. About 6000 school children participated in the event this year, there was even a band from one of the schools. The city has a huge pavilion at the edge of downtown where this is held, the kids were in the stands and all spectators either stood or sat on the grass facing the stands. The concert included a number of lively folk songs and even a Finnish rendition of YMCA (without the hand motions since the letters aren't the same in the translation). The newspaper predicted that there would be up to 15,000 spectators. Due to the size of the area and our inability to count that high we don't know how many were there, but it was a sizable crowd. A good time was had by all.