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 ...

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IT’S eight o’clock at the Taurenitis School in Jurmala, a resort town some 25km west of Riga. 78 children, half of the school’s total number, have assembled for their twice-weekly choir practice.

RIGA (Reuters Life!) - Thousands of choral singers, dancers in traditional costumes and folk music lovers have descended on the Latvian capital this week for a massive festival which only comes round ...

Wednesday, July 26, is the birthday of Jazeps Vitols: composer, critic, educator, the father of Latvian classical music — and an example of how political histories retroactively affect fame. Vitols ...

They're young, they're Latvian, and together they are turning their tiny Baltic nation into a musical superpower. As a new opera season approaches, Latvian musicians are set to continue their ...

The kokle, a traditional Latvian folk music instrument, soon will take center stage during Tea Time in Toledo. Latvia native Valdis Garuts of Beaverton, Ore., will play the kokle at the Toledo Senior ...

Dressed in traditional costumes typical of each region of Latvia, schoolchildren from across the Baltic country gathered in the capital city Riga this week for the XI School Youth Song and Dance ...

Dykun posts a video and writes on a Ukrainian and Russian folk music performance in Riga, Latvia: “they performed together a show of russian and ukrainian wedding songs and rituals, with the structure ...