At the end of June, the festival Baltica / Day will be performed in Riga, Sigulda County and Daugavpils

Already traditionally the festival will start with the Baltic evening Wind words, What June 26 at 18.00 will take place at the Music House Daile. The folklore groups of all Latvian historical countries and guests from Lithuania and Estonia will perform. « The wind will rot together and, by agreeing in voices and in one force, will become a festival, paint the variety of Latvian sound and sketch out the tones of neighboring languages, » reveals the artistic director and theme of the festival, Edite Laime, whose concert is created with the folklore group All winds.

Meanwhile in a folk club Cave. Basement Old Town at 21.00 will enjoy groups Yawar Peru A concert that brings together former students from Peru, who studied in Riga in the late 1980s and participated in the festival for the first time 30 years ago. The Agenskalns Market will be held on the Agenskalns market from 22.00 Dance and traditional music.

27 June at 10.00 with a memorial and the opening of the monument in Helm and Dainis’ stately in the Forest Cemetery will begin Riga Day. In turn, the City Environment Day concerts Pair sounds from 11.00 to 5 pm on Town Hall Square, Small Guild Garden, Freedom Square and Festival Square (Little Jauniela 5) will be performed on language programs prepared by all participants of the festival. « The voices and stories of Latgalian, Selonian, Kurzeme, Zemgale, Vidzeme, Livs and Rigans themselves will sound over the streets, squares and squares of Riga. At every step we meet the language and its different sound. Hear, ”says Sandis Kalniņš, director of the event.

During the festival in the Great Hall of the Small Guild from 15.00 to 4:30 pm there will also be awarding and concert in the folklore of the Traditional Culture Excellence Award. And from 17.00 – 6:30 pm Festival participants are expected from Dome Square to Powder Tower, Freedom Square, Kaļķu Street and Town Hall Square.

In the evening from 19.00 to 9 pm The opening concert of the festival will be performed Greats, Almost 30 folklore groups, chapels and ensembles will attend, as well as surprise three stages, singing at long tables and dancing polka. The concert will be hosted by Edgar and Lily Lipori and broadcast on Latvian Television. The director of the event is Asnate Rancane: « The concert is about how beautiful we are, but how beautiful we can celebrate our diversity. Although we are a small nation and the country, it has many different cultural nuances, differences and all of them are unique.

Then from 21.00 to 10 pm Town Hall Square will host a concert of foreign guests, with folklore and ethnographic music ensembles this year Poring (Lithuania), Siidisõsarory (Estonia), Perlynka (Ukraine) and Yawar Peru (Peru), allowing you to get to know the languages ​​of closer and further. More information on foreign guests is available on the festival website www.festivalbaltica.lv. The Latvian National History Museum will invite you to Baltica stories, language workshops and multilingual concerts So I sang, so I speak. The day will end with dances and singing from 22.00 on the festival square and at the Small Guild.

On June 28, the festival will continue in Sigulda County, where 12.00 to 2 pm Cities’ Day Concerts will be held My language sounds. They will be enjoyed at the Sigulda Market, in the Inčukalns Alexander Park Stage, Inciema Stage, Lēdurga Dendropark, the Mountain Mountain, Mālpils Manor and Sad Family Home. 15.00 Folklore groups will perform Mālpils Strawberry Festival. « In Sigulda County you will be able to hear the calm and lovely, proud, and luxurious, luxurious and bright language, and occasionally a direct and perhaps even a little sparkling and sparkling language – as wide and diverse in our sounds as it is heard in our regions, » says Anda Skuja.

From 15.00 to 6 pm The festival will continue on the Turaida Museum Reserve and Dainu Hill. From 18.00 to 8 pm Turaida Museum Reserve will host the evening great concert Strong words in the nitrogen, where the singing and dancing will continue. About the great concert, A. Skuja says: « There will be a bright language in Liv, in different Latvian language dialects and other languages ​​will be sung, dancing and other folk dances, increasing joy, courage and self -esteem. »

The singing and dancing already on June 28 also invites Daugavpils, where from. 8 pm Distant riders are invited to arrive in the Hall of the Unity House. In turn, June 29 from 9.30am to 10.30 pm in Daugavpils will start morning conversations with a coffee with ortha Silabriede.

“The day of the festival in Daugavpils falls on Peter’s Day (also called Peterdine, Petrine and Petrika in Latgale), which ends the celebration of the solstice. In the past, on this day abstained from physical work, Latgale churches took place in long lounges. Meadow flowers will all be Petrine in Daugavpils – the moment of songs, the joy of meeting, the dances, the concerts, the delicacies, the flowers and the market, ”says E.Laime.

Folklore Day Concerts Gudm June 29 from 11.00 to 2:30 pm will be performed in Daugavpils St. Peter’s chains at the Roman Catholic Church, the Sculpture Garden, Daugavpils Design and Art High School Sun school in the courtyard and in the courtyard of the Daugavpils Museum of Regional and Art, as well as in the Hall of the Unity House. Meanwhile, the festival’s procession is expected at. 3 pm Rigas Street from Stacijas Street to Unit Square, where 3:30 pm there will be a convening of counties.

And from 16.00 to 18.00 The closing concert of the festival will take place in Andrejs Pumpur’s square Duckuo volud, which will also be live on Latvian Radio 3. ”40 years ago Liv sang Native language is a mother, mother … The song and its message became one of the symbols of the restoration of independence. The Latvian language, its dialects, dialects still live in the regions of Latvia. The Latgalian language is still « Dzeivuo Voluda ». Together with other languages, it will show the splendor of its votes at the closing concert in Daugavpils, ”says Ilona Rupaine, the director.

More Festival Program Available www.festivalbaltica.lv and www.lnkc.gov.lv. The event will be free for visitors, while at the Latvian National History Museum and the Turaida Museum Reserve for an entrance ticket.

International Folklore Festival Baltica has been going on since 1987 every time in another Baltic country. In Latvia, the festival will be for the 13th time, gathering folklore groups and ethnographic ensembles, chapel and folklore dance groups, craftsmen, storytellers and other living cultural heritage keepers from all three Baltic States. The organizers of this year’s festival are the Latvian National Culture Center in cooperation with the Riga National Municipality, Daugavpils National Municipality, Sigulda Municipality and the Special Protected Cultural Monument to Turaida Museum Reserve, Society The cultural space in nature and Latgalian cultural movement Voluda.