Under the banner “Gaudeamus”, nearly 1700 students from Latvia, more than 800 from Estonia and 1600 from Lithuania are gathering for the three-day event which celebrates the traditional folk music and dance of the three Baltic states.
Centring on the critically-acclaimed Mark Rothko Art Center which opened in Daugavpils last year, the festival also includes artworks and masterpieces of the textile crafts.
Events will culminate on Sunday with a closing concert celebrating 25 years since the events of the Baltic Way, when Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians joined hands in a human chain from Tallinn to Vilnius via Riga that galvanised the three countries' “Singing Revolution” and paved the way for the restoration of their independence on 1991.
