Midsummer Party — Võrumaa

Võrumaa in June means a venue an hour from anywhere the van can get parts. The barn has no three-phase, the manor's circuit breaker is older than the PA, and the kilometre of track to the lakeshore makes two trips out of every load-in. Midsummer here is outdoors or in a space that was never wired for a few hundred people dancing past midnight.

We rig for that. Generator hire, cable runs across grass, a lighting plan that works when there is nothing to hang from. The crew accounts for the drive, the dark, and the fact that the nearest hardware shop closes at six.