Jessica Shy’s concert was a record, but there have been bigger ones in Lithuanian venues

The concert went down in history

The concert of one of the most titled Lithuanian pop music performers, Džesika Šyvokaitė – that’s her real name – in Kaunas on the last weekend of summer attracted not only great attention of the media, but also of fans.

Ticket sellers announced right after the event that the singer’s biggest and only show this year went down in history as the biggest Lithuanian music concert of 2024.

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“The grandiose performance that took place at the Darius and Girėnos Stadium in Kaunas is distinguished by the fact that a record number of tickets were sold for it”, – announced ticket distribution company “Bilietai.lt”.

It is immediately stated that “the show held on the penultimate day of this year’s summer became the biggest concert of all time: so many tickets were never sold for any concert by a Lithuanian music artist”. It turned out that he was at the event gathered 38 thousand viewers.

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This information journalists caught upshe was is repeated and in later essays about the event, of course, first emphasizing that the concert was the biggest this year.

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But the information found in the archives shows that the singer who is now one of the most popular In Lithuania and at this year’s MAMA awards alone, 6 statuettes were won, the performance was not the biggest performance of the country’s artist or group in history.

A larger crowd said goodbye to Foje

On the website of Lithuanian records and elsewhere on the internet you can find information about various biggest concerts in our country – by one or another artist or group, in a certain year, in a certain arena, indoors or outdoors, etc.

Portal 15min applied to the public institution “Agentūra Factum” with a request to specify which individual artist or group concert (not a festival or event, such as the Song Festival) held in Lithuania is considered the greatest. We have not received an answer yet. As well as from “Bilietai.lt”, which we asked to clarify in which sense Jessica Shy’s concert was a record.

The Google search engine throws up more than one interview with the famous singer, songwriter, producer, actor Andrii Mamontov, who said that the biggest such performance was the farewell of the group “Foje” he formed with his friends in Vingios Park in Vilnius.

in 1997 May 17 asked about the concert at least 50 thousand peoplealthough a much higher number is usually indicated – 60 thousand

“It was the moment when I realized that there would never be another moment like this in my life – about the last show with the band has told A. Mamontov. – I especially felt it while performing the last song “Light of the campfire”. I realized that this is the only and very special moment… I have never felt such a feeling as that time.

People who participated in the event remember that the audience filled the entire space covered with grass and asphalt from the stage to the first trees of Vingis Park. For comparison, to last year’s concert of the American group “Imagine Dragons”, lrt.lt according to data, were gathered 40 thousand viewers.

During the Foje era, we held two solo concerts in Vingios Park, last year told A. Mamontov. – 1995 was probably our best concert. In terms of performance and feel. The last “Foje” concert took place here, which, incredibly, is still the record in Lithuania for the number of wives collected by one performer in one concert.”

Having decided to break up, the band members invited their fans to three last concerts in May 1997. They took place in Klaipėda’s Summer Stage, Kaunas Nemunas Island and Vingis Park. Music company Tigris, which has worked with Foje since its inception in 1993, datathey were visited by more than 100 thousand people. people.

For organizing these concerts, “Tigris” in 1997 received the “Bravo” statuette “For the best event of the year”, and the Ministry of Culture for the group delivered 50 thousand litas bonus.

15min verdict: missing context. The farewell concert of the “Foje” band, held in 1997, is considered the biggest performance organized by one artist or group in the history of Lithuania. May 17 About 60,000 people gathered in Vilnius Vingis Park that day. viewers.

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