Tsirgukõsõ'
Our choir was established in 2003 in the Estonian school of Pechory (formerly Setomaa, present day Russian Federation). It was created by three people - Helju Tsopatalo (the leader of the choir), Svetlana Rakuta (the director of the Estonian school) and Helju Majak (the leader of the Seto community in the Pechory area). Our singers come from the Pechory region and still live here. The Pechory region has always had very good singers. Our most important holiday is St. Mary’s Day. We consider it very important to preserve the Seto culture in the current Pechory region where there are only a few Seto people and not many choirs. For several years we were the only Seto choir here. The greatest joy for us is communicating with our Seto relatives, hearing the Seto language from them, learning new songs , dances and Seto instrumental music. We meet once a week. We use local songs, lyrics and melodies collected by Helju Tsopatalo, and those which we bring back from our visits to Estonia.
Mi pargikõnõ nakaś kokko käümä 2003. aastagal Petsereh Eesti koolih. Kolm naist oll´ koori sünnü man: Tsopatalo Helju, kinkast sai pargikõsõ iistvidäjä, Rakuta Svetlana oll´ tuud aigo kooli direktri ni Majagu Helju, kia om parhilla setokõisi iistvidäjä Vinne valtsusõga Petseremaal. Mi laulja’ omma’ peri Petseremaalt ni elässe ka parhilla siih. Petseremaa om olnu väega rikas hüvvi lauljidõ poolõst. Mi jaost om Maaŕapäiv kõkõ tähtsäp pühä. Mi hoita’ omma’ seto kombõ’ parhilladsõl piiritagotsõl Petseremaal. Setosit om veid´o jäänü ni olõmi olnu ainumas seto laulukuur siih. Meele miildüs veiga uma seto hõimuga kokko saia’, kuulda’ ni kõnõlda’ seto kiilt, oppi’ vahtsit laulõ ni tandsõ ja pillimängo.
Kokko korjumi üte voori nädälih. Laulami ummi paigapäälitsit sõnno ni viise, mia Tsopatalo Helju kokko om kogonu, võtami ülest ka Eestist üteh tuudu seto laulõ.
