20210703 Iisalmi 130 Vuotta - torijuhla - LUE KUVAUS / 130 Years - celebration - READ DESCRIPTION /1

This video shows the entire main programme of the second day of the Iisalmi (Finland) 130 year anniversary celebration in the main market area.

During the first 15 minutes nothing happens: the stage is being prepared for the celebration.
00:14:58 I take the camera to shoot people playing “TonkKumi” (“throw the teat rubbers in the milk churn”; see    • 20200905 the “throw the teat rubbers in th...   for last year’s competition) and “hat/cap throwing”.
00:18:37 back to in front of the stage
00:20:17 the folk dancers arrive, greet the audioence and, after a while, leave to the right to wait for their turn
00:22:36 Petra Lisitsin-Mantere (accordion) and Riitta Hynynen (violin), the hosts of the celebration, start playing some music. I don’t shoot their play all the time - for example, at around 00:26:30, I shoot the “TonkKumi” area
00:28:54 Maikki Korhonen and Anneli Valta-Lisitsin, the well-known “dialect masters” from Lapinlahti, start their performance. (More info on them (Finnish): https://www.savonsanomat.fi/paikallis... )
00:40:50 the folk dance performance, performed by the Nuorisoseura Nuori Iisalmi (announcement at 00:39:52 and then, again, at 00:40:23), starts
00:51:19 (the group's announcement is at 00:50:02): another folk dance group, the Youth Organization of Vänninmäki (a small settlement situated between Iisalmi and Sonkajärvi with very strong folk traditions; “Vänninmäen nuorisoseura”), starts. Note: up until 00:57:47, I shot this in front of the dancing stage; it was only then that I relocated the camera on top of the main stage to 1, be able to cover the entire dancing stage with the UW lens of my iPhone 11 and 2, to avoid the phone overheating. (My next iPhone will surely be a non-black/dark model to alleviate overheating issues in sunshine…)
01:21:10 all people in Finnish national costumes on are invited to and gather at the left of the stage for a group photo event to allow the audience to take photos of all of them at the same time.
01:26:01 the leader of the Youth Organization of Iisalmi (Nuorisoseura Nuori Iisalmi) is interviewed onstage
01:30:14 Maikki Korhonen and Anneli Valta-Lisitsin return to the stage and entertain the audience up to 01:41:19
01:44:10 Petra Lisitsin-Mantere and Riitta Hynynen introduce the members of the teacher band of the North-Savonian Music School (Ylä-Savon musiikkiopisto), who, then, immediately start playing Finnish and international songs (that is, not their repertoire). They feature three different female singers.
02:18:35 Markku Ryynänen, the leader of the Dance Group of the local Ulmala Youth Organization (https://www.ulmala.org ;   / tanssiryhmät-ulmalan-nuorisoseura-47412753...   ) is interviewed. Immediately after this (at 02:22:00), his group starts dancing
02:29:10 the hosts relocate to the “TonkKumi” area and start talking about the game. The hosts and some folk dancers also test their luck with the game.
02:35:10 now it’s the turn of the “hat/cap throwing” game. This part, after the intro, also features one of the hosts’ attempt, followed (at 02:36:40 ) by those of some of the of the folk dancers
02:38:36 an official guide of the town, Anja Kauppinen ( more info: https://www.iisalmi.fi/Suomeksi/Palve... ), is being interviewed. She speaks about the brand new art exhibition in the Birch Alley, which is Europe’s longest one. Also see the video    • 20210703 Iisalmi 130 Vuotta - torijuhla - ...   , in which, starting at around 05:00, the same guide guides through the exhibition
02:46:44 the teacher band resumes playing music; I continued shooting the “TonkKumi” area
03:01:40 now that I needed to get ready for the Birch Alley walk and was sure to be able to continue shooting in the shadowed area so I wouldn’t need as efficient phone cooling as possible, I reinsert my iPhone in my OtterBox Defender case
03:11:23 the host officially end the event; this is followed by the farewell song of the teacher band.

Photos:
1, technically good-quality ones: https://www.flickr.com/photos/3344835...
2, worse-quality ones: https://www.flickr.com/photos/3344835...