Last weekend in Rakvere, Estonia, thousands gathered for the third “Punk Song Festival.”

The festival, which was also held in 2008 and 2011, features popular Estonian punk songs performed by choirs.

This year’s program featured all Estonian punk songs arranged for choir and orchestra as well as the Sex Pistols “Anarchy in the UK.”

According to the Estonian Ministry of Culture’s website:

The Punk Song Festival is a symbiosis of the traditional Estonian song festival with lot of choral singers and punk rock. The idea came from Üllar Saaremäe, the artistic director of Rakvere theater in the Summer of 2007 and next year, June 7, 2008 the Punk Song Festival in Rakvere became a reality. Then the punk anthem “Anarchy in the U.K” was the only non-Estonian punk song in the repertoire.

Looking a bit like a cartoonish Quincy and CHiPs punks-comprised rendition of “We are the World,” the choir belts out an ESL, orchestrally arranged version of the Pistols’ timeless anthem.

Not much in-between here, this is either the most unpunk or the punkest thing ever:
 

 
Here is the same song from the first Punk Song Festival in 2008. There are 1700 people in the choir with thousands more spectators: