The Selonian language is increasingly sounding. Festival Baltica will gather more than 3000 participants / day

Topic – Language

Already traditionally the most widely festival Baltica Latgale will be represented, of which 87 collectives will participate in various events and a total of 1030 participants. The second larger region this year will be Vidzeme with 50 sets and 624 participants, while the third most represented region will be Kurzeme with 48 collectives and 541 members. Riga will be represented by 30 collectives and 454 participants. The festival will also feature 19 groups and 303 participants from Zemgale and 9 collectives with 103 participants from Selonia.

Festival participants are collectives that festival Baltica The repertoire tested at the end of last year received Category I or II for their performance. « The theme of this year’s festival is language, and the shows could already get to know its articles, rhythms, sounds and character in music, songs, dances, stories or music games, » says Edite Laime.

Joy

The Zemgale groups were characterized by a variety of sounds and more unheard combinations in chanting, as well as the traces of the Semigallian language, highlighting the heritage of votas or Russians, as well as the language of the calls, shepherds and children. The Kurzeme people showed their uniqueness with both the stories and words of sea fishermen, as well as the highlights of various personalities, for example, the paintings of Janis Rozentals were revived, the life story of Otaņķānis Katrina Ignatne and the contribution to the creation of the local dialect’s dictionary. The Liv language, Pop, Suiti, Puziš ‘, Edol’s tongue, Tirmar Tirg, Piltene, Piltene, Piltene Jews, Leishi and other stories of Zirni parish and other stories.

The representatives of Vidzeme brought in honor of the songs of folklorist Voldemar Stelberg, telling the stories of the Gauja raftsmen further, remembered the pink burned Lielvarde Katrina, spoke in Malenian, Vidzeme Livs, Selonian, Piebaldzēnas, as well as in songs and dances. A lot of other Latvian historical countries could be heard in the region, because it was in Vidzeme that the inhabitants of the rest of the regions came to historically, the expertise of folk traditions.

The festival shows have made it aware that Selonian is increasingly sounding in Selonia, where the songs were not characterized by this side and the joy of the songs recorded at different locations in Selonia. It was also reminded of the influence of the tongues of the skills and the men, being in the moods and each of their own heart. Alongside the stories of various villages, soles and cubes, the language also sounded a lot of nature – birds, trees, flowers, horses and other topics. The Latgalians invited to the wedding, the work, the green ball, showed the various Latgale Bolsus, as well as honoring the songs of Onton Skrinda, told about the lives of Lubāns fishermen and did not forget the region’s characteristic diva, says E. Laime.

Returns guests from Peru

There will also be two Latvian diaspora collectives among the festival participants – the Latvian folklore group of North England Turtle And the Latvian National Culture Society in Estonia, a folklore group Revel.

There will also be four foreign guests – from Lithuania, Estonia and Ukraine in the Volina region. Meanwhile, the farthest path to the festival will measure the folklore music group Yawar Peru, which in Riga in 1988 was established by Peruvian students who studied aviation in Latvia. Word « Yawar » In Ketchwe, the Inca spoke, means ‘blood’.

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 festival program will be announced in May and will be free for visitors, while the Turaida Museum Reserve with an entrance ticket.

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