Midsummer Party — Tartu

Midsummer in Tartu starts late and ends later. Guests arrive at dusk and stay past dawn, and the room has to hold them through both.

The rig follows the rhythm. Gentle light at the start, bright enough to eat by. Music that builds as the sky stays bright past ten. Then the long stretch—two, three, four in the morning—when the floor is full and the sound has to carry without breaking. The failures are predictable: a generator that quits at one, a DJ booth with no sightline to the crowd, a bar queue that chokes the only path to the exit. We arrive early, rig for the full span, and stay until the last case is packed.