Pan-Slavic Congress of Singers

Choirs from various regions of Poland and Polish diaspora, groups from Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria have participated in it massively.

8 thousand men under leadership of professor Władysław Raczkowski sang the hymn Gaude Mater Polonia.

The performance of Ojczyzna by Feliks Nowowiejski with his companionship of ten brass bands have caused the peculiar appealing of the audience.

Around the linden, on the rails, there was a Polish inscription: Lipa słowiańska zasadzona na pamiątkę I wszechsłowiańskiego zjazdu śpiewaczego

w dniach 18.5.–22.5.1929Which translates to Slavic linden planted in memory of the first panslavic congress of singers

The opening of the congress at the newly built Stadion Edmunda Szyca
Czechoslovakian singers salute the President of Poland, Ignacy Mościcki , during the military parade