Estonia beats Norway: sunrise over the bog seals the point

A concert by the bog orchestra ended with nature's own spectacle, as the rising sun made the bog steam and spider webs glistened with dewdrops. Estonia's natural backdrop defeated Norway's.

A concert by various ensembles of the bog orchestra concluded with a sunrise over the bog, which became an experience in itself. After the concert, as the audience set out through the silence of the bog and birdsong toward home, the sun rose behind the bog pines, twisted pines, and cotton grass, at first only a faint glow.

Soon the sun's rays began to draw steam from the bog and dewdrops in spider webs began to glisten. Nature itself added the final chord to the concert, one that likely stayed in the audience's memory longer than any boogie riff.

The headline "Estonia beats Norway" suggests that in terms of the symbiosis between Estonian natural landscape and bog music, we are in no way inferior to our northern neighbours-quite the opposite, in fact.