Historic Rock Festival Plans Comeback for 25th Anniversary
The Rock Summer festival, first held in Tallinn in 1988, will hold a one-off event in mid-June to celebrate a quarter of a century since its birth.
Bands like Rock Hotel, Singer Vinger, Ultima Thule and Leningrad Cowboys performed at the very first Rock Summer, reported ETV.
The original three-day festival was subtitled “Glastnost Rock - Rock for Peace!" and was held during a time of increasing defiance against Soviet rule. The free event attracted 190,000 people.
Rock Summer was then repeated nearly every year for the following decade, attracting names like Iggy Pop and Shaggy to what was otherwise a backwater of the international music circuit. The last time it was held was 1997, after which the organizers went bankrupt.
“When younger people buy a tablet computer, they do not think that you can visit 10 to 20 concerts for the same price. In respect to the older generation, the sort of festival we are planning to organize has not been seen in Estonia for a while,” said head organizer Jüri Makarov
“The recurring theme is music for fathers and for sons,” he added.
Rock Summer 25 will be held at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds on June 15 and 16. Headliners will be named on February 25. The same day, ticket prices will rise from 50 to 70 euros.