First Day Cover
首日封
Sobrescrito de 1.º Dia 
Lithuania
Millennium Song Celebration of Lithuania "Song of the Centuries"
Date of Issue : 27 June 2009
The first Song Celebration was organised on the 23–25th of August 1924 in Kaunas, with participation of 86 choirs, about 3000 singers, which sang 36 songs.
Since 1950 Lithuanian Song Celebrations were regularly organised every five years, and in 1985 the record number of participants gathered – 38856.
The tradition and symbolism of Song and Dance Celebrations of three Baltic States was nominated as Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on the 17th of November 2003.
On the 1–6th of July 2009 Millennium Song Celebration of Lithuania "Song of the Centuries" was took place in Vilnius.
Estonia "Song and Dance Festival" FDC
My first real posted FDC from Lithuania. It is very nice. Of the 3 Baltic states, I am lucky to get the FDC of the Song and Dance Festival of Estonia and Lithuania.
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