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Check out the amazing photos by the Festival`s official photographer!  New photos are added daily, and they’re now available for purchase.

Choose your images and email the file numbers to photovisionsdigital@rogers.com

You will receive an electronic invoice ($5 per image) through Paypal.  When payment is made, your high resolution images will be sent to your email.

CD’s and prints are available as well. Please inquire about cost and shipping charges.

Please share your Festival photos with us by sending them to info@dainusvente.org. 

We also invite you to join the Facebook group Memories of the IX išeivijos Dainų šventė.

We recommend parking at Park ‘N Fly (corner of Dixon Rd. and Carlingview Ave.) for the special Song Festival rate of $12.65 per day. Pick up your discount voucher at the Marriott Hotel.

Free parking is available during the events at the International and Hershey Centres.

Street party food tickets will be available in advance at the Marriott Hotel on Friday. Buy them in advance to avoid line-ups on Saturday.

Paulius and Rasa, in the Parish of the Resurrection board room where the organizing committee has been meeting over the last four years.

Tickets for the Song Festival Concert are available up to and including Sunday, July 4 at www.ticketmaster.ca, by calling
1-416-870-8000 and at the Hershey Centre box office.

Tickets to all other events may be purchased beginning July 2 at the Airport Marriott Information Centre and at the events.

With approximately three million residents, Toronto is one of Canada’s largest and friendliest cities.  Be sure to include some sightseeing when planning your Song Festival visit. What is there to see and do? Click on the links below to find out!

Congratulations to LIUDAS LANDSBERGIS and SAULIUS KLIORYS on the success of their weekend of song for our youth choirs at Dainava on May 28-30. The enthusiasm and open hearts of the ninety participants surpassed all expectations. Find out more in Nijolės Benotienės article in “Draugas”.

BRAVO, our young singers!

Everyone is invited to the Street Party on Saturday night!  Romas Jonušonis, Tomas Kuras and Viktoras Remesat are coordinating the dynamic group of young volunteers who are developing this event.

In the photo: (seated) Saulius Simonavičius, Romas Jonušonis, Viktoras Remesat, Tomas Kuras, (standing) Elena Stravinskaitė, Julija Šimonėlytė, Ramunė Jonušonytė.

The Airport Marriott Hotel, Festival headquarters, will be transformed into the town of Songville, with an indoor/outdoor street party featuring activities, entertainment, food and drink for all who visit. read more…

Every Monday night for the last few months, six teams of volunteers have been hard at work constructing and assembling the various components of the sets and props for the Festival concert. Their objective: to embellish the themes of the songs, either metaphorically or literally, by adding another dimension to the musical performance. read more…

“Hello my dears, today  my heart is celebrating!” No, our artistic director is not referring to the Song Festival, but to a special family event: the marriage of her son Darius to Liana Šipelytė.  The Viskontas, Skrinskas, Šipelis and Šapokas families and their friends gathered in  Vancouver, at the foot of the majestic Rockies and on the shore of the beautiful Pacific Ocean, to witness the couple‘s first steps into a new life.  read more…