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The city of Daugavpils is holding its traditional end-of-summer “Musical August” festival every Thursday of August. This year, festival events take place in Andreja Pumpura Square, Daugavpils Culture Palace, Dubrovina Park and the concert hall of the Vienības House, Latvian Radio reported August 10.
From August 6 to 12, this year's International Operetta Festival will take place in Ikšķile, which will start a series of events for the ten-year anniversary of the Operetta Theater in the town.
From July 27 to 29, the 'Porta' world music festival is taking place in Riga and Kuldīga. It is the 18th time the festival has been held, and over the years it has become a firm favorite with folkies in Latvia.
From July 25 to 29, the traveling jazz festival “Voicingers On Tour” will be held in Rīga for the third consecutive year. By day, jazz vocalists will learn from the world's artists, but in evening concerts at the club "Biedrība" will be held, Latvian Radio 3 reports.
The “Melo-M” cello trio and the opera singer Sonora Vaice have created an outdoor concert program to surprise and delight the residents and guests of Riga and its guests, the musicians' representatives said Tuesday.
During the music festival “Positivus” over the weekend, 63 different offenses were recorded in two days, but there have been no major incidents, the senior specialist of the State Police's public relations department Gita Gžibovska told LETA July 16.
On Thursday, July 13, during the meeting of the Riga City Council, after a long debate it was decided to allocate EUR 200,000 to the Positivus festival taking place in Lucavsala this weekend.
Rehearsals July 5 for Thursday's grand choral concert at the Latvian Song and Dance Festival included a rousing rendition of the Ukrainian national anthem Shche ne vmerla Ukrainy i slava, i volia, as noted by the Latvian Foreign Ministry.
From June 30 to July 2, the second hip-hop festival "Straume" ("Flow") took place in Līgatne, in the creative quarter "Zeit", whose program included artists of different generations and performances specially prepared for the festival.
The Latvian Song and Dance Festival always produces a few surprises, but it's doubtful this year's event will present anything more astonishing than the sight of a male voice choir throwing down the gaunlet to their rivals in choral competition by performing the famous 'haka' of New Zealand's Māori warriors.
From June 30 to July 9, Latvian public media will carry extensive live broadcasts from proceedings of the XXVII General Latvian Song and XVII Dance Festival, on television, on radio and online.
A music festival with a difference starts on June 28 when accomplished musicians on various instruments will take each other on in a very civilized battle for melodic supremacy.
The Osokins Freedom Festival for Ukraine has raised more than EUR 20 000 to support Ukraine, organizers said June 14.
The popular Latvian ethno-folk music ensemble Tautumeitas will play at the famous Glastonbury Festival in England later this month.
As summer begins, the active concert season also begins for musicians, with town celebrations and festivals underways. Concerts remain Latvian musicians' main source of income, but in recent years they also derive additional income from music listeners that use streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube, Tidal, and others, Latvian Radio reported May 22.
The new artistic director of the acclaimed Lielais Dzintars concert hall in Liepāja starts work May 15 in the familiar form of veteran music broadcaster and journalist Orests Silabriedis.
Saturday night's Eurovision final will be a Latvia-free zone after this year's entry, Sudden Lights, failed to make it out of Tuesday night's semi-final.
The day of destiny has arrived for Latvia's Eurovision entry, the group Sudden Lights, as it takes to the stage in Liverpool, England in the first semi-final of this year's Eurovision Song Contest.
Latvia's Eurovision entry, Sudden Lights, prepared for their appearance in the first Eurovision semi-final on May 9 by dressing up as Liverpool's most famous sons, The Beatles.
An internet radio station dubbed "Vecās Plates" (Old Records) was launched in April by Latvian Radio, offering a non-stop supply of around 1,000 classic cuts.
The Latvian pop group Sudden Lights has held its first rehearsal ahead of its spot at the Eurovision Song Contest next week when the group will represent Latvia in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
A new large-format artwork has been installed in the Great Hall of the Latvian National Opera, an abstract splash of color in a grid frame. The painting by Andris Eglītis now decorates the front curtain of the big stage, said representatives of the Latvian National Opera and Ballet on April 25.
Signature collection is ongoing on the public initiative site manabalss.lv for the inclusion of a Ukrainian resistance movement song in the Latvian Song and Dance Celebration. The festival's organizers are not yet making any promises, Zemgale Television reported on April 25.
Ticketing company SIA "Biļešu serviss" (Ticket Service) says it will apply to the Procurement Supervision Office (UIB) to challenge the decision of the Latvian National Culture Center (LNKC) to hand the ticket sales contract for this year's Song and Dance Festival to rival SIA "Biļešu paradīze" (Ticket Paradise), reports LSM's Latvian language service.
For this weekend's events, we have selected some local music concerts – alternative rock, rockabilly, and heavy metal – for lovers of these genres and those who wish to try something new locally.
This year's 'Saldus Saule' (Saldus Sun) festival will take place in Saldus' Kalnseta Park, on July 28 and 29, the organizers of the festival have announced.
The "Summer Sound" beach festival, which will take place this year for the eleventh time in Liepāja, has released more details of the acts that will be performing on its stage.
The Cabinet of Ministers on March 7 approved the venues for the XXVII Nationwide Song and XVII Dance Festival, which will be held from June 30 until July 9 in 31 different venues in Rīga, the LETA newswire reported, citing the Latvian National Culture Center representative Linda Ertmane.
Acclaimed pianist Andrejs Osokins will hit the road in March with a national tour combined with a new fundraising campaign for Ukraine.
At the charity concert in Rīga Circus on February 24 evening 'Veltījums Ukrainai/Tribute to Ukraine', EUR 385,000 were raised for Ukraine's support, said organizer Signe Nīgale.
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