The first live performance at the inaugural Riga Music Week is by Saucējas. This seven-piece vocal ensemble is avowedly ...

The Nordic&Baltic Young Artist Award is an international competition that brings together recent art graduates from leading Nordic and Baltic academies. This year, 154 young artists from Latvia, ...

Folk dancers from Bulgaria perform during the IX International Folk Dance Festival "Sudmalinas" in Riga, Latvia, on July 9, 2019. The dance festival held from July 9 to 14 this year aims to bring ...

Starting from today listeners can enjoy the latest album from vocal group Latvian Voices, ROTĀ, which brings together ten of composer and group leader Laura Jēkabsone's most remarkable folk music ...

Every five years, Riga hosts a traditional song and dance festival that draws over 30,000 people—mostly Latvians, and many from expat homes all over the globe. This year is one of those years, and ...

Thousands of Latvians and members of its diaspora from around the world travelled to Toronto this weekend to celebrate the history and culture of this small country on the shores of the Baltic Sea, ...

Ancient traditions and modern technology can team up in interesting ways. This Saturday, Latvian folk singers will strum kokles and blow krummhorns to accompany traditional folk songs, which will then ...