Events

As the sun was setting on July 31st, guitarist Gints Smukais performed on the Raiskums Lake on a floating stage, presenting his second studio album “Thaw” with an intimate concert that featured compositions from the new album as well as songs from his first album “Flourish” and guitarists take on popular pieces.

Latvian hip-hop artist ansis will perform at Mežaparks Green Theatre on 19th of August. The concert will be largely dedicated to the album “Lielā māksla” (eng. Great Art) released in the autumn and this will be the first opportunity to experience it live. The concert will be warmed up by rolands če.

New music festival “VASARA KAUNE 2021” (ENG – “SUMMER IN KAUNAS 2021”) will betaking place at one of the most beautiful places in Lithuania – the VMU Botanical Garden on August 17-22.

Every rustle of leaves creates a new spell, circles on the surface of the lake – a ritual, and every person visits this mysterious world for a reason. They are driven by a promise of secret meetings to solve the mysteries of the night. The participant decides whether the meeting will take place and how members of one’s tribe recognise each other – by gesture, image, certain blink of an eye or sound.

‘CAN! BE!’ Festival organiser Ieva Irbina talks the upcoming festival and its lineup, the process of organising events in the ‘new normal’ as well as being the spokesperson for the Event and Entertainment Industry in Latvia during the Pandemic and future of events as such.

The art center “Zuzeum“, the film project “Kino Kults” (ENG – “Cinema Cult”) and the US Embassy in Latvia invite viewers to the open-air film cycle “White Spots”. The theme of the 2021 programme is “Utopias and Dystopias”.

“Galapagai“ is one of the notable international open-air summer festivals of music and entertainment in Lithuania inviting music lovers to enjoy live performances and outdoor entertainment. Just like so many other festivals across the world the festival was rescheduled to July of 2022.

Valgeranna Festival 2021 will take place on July 23 – 24 and will feature Estonian and foreign artists. The headliners this year are TUNGEVAAG and JUBËL.

The second edition of “Enkurfests”, currently the only city-based music festival in Riga, Latvia, takes place on Saturday, July 10th.

The second “Osokin’s Freedom Festival @152” will take place in Riga from July 7 – 11, during which various Latvian artists – Andrejs Osokins, Ģirts Krūmiņš, Rihards Lībietis, Magdalēna Geka, Iveta Cālīte, Katrīna Gupalo and others will perform with special concert programs for almost a week.

Lucavsala, Čiekurkalns, Bolderāja, Ziepniekkalns and Pļavnieki districts in Riga, Latvia will be the hotspots of culture this summer. Open-air concerts of various genres, as well as conversations, lectures, excursions, physical activities, and activities for children, will be available free of charge.

Despite the strange times, the traveling cultural festival Võnge will be taking place this summer on the 2nd and 3rd of July in the Terva Parish, Soglemegi, at the location of the future Mulgi Adventure Center. The festival venue is only 43 km from Valga and an arm’s reach away from the Latvian border. Festival tickets are available HERE.

Virtuoso guitarist Mārcis Auziņš releases his third studio album “Lielā Plūsma” (The Big Flow) that includes compositions composed during the last three years.

An electronic music online concert: “Latvian Techno Vector” will take place from June 14th to June 21st. The event will be broadcasted from several scenic factory locations, where four electronic music Artists/DJs will perform: Black Moth, Ekva, Puffin, and Ksenia Kamikaza.

Glastonbury Festival organisers didn’t want to cancel the event for a second consecutive year. Instead they made it possible to everyone around the globe to watch exclusive livestream.

The Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, conducted by its chief conductor Gintars Rinkevičs, will celebrate its 140th anniversary season finale with a live concert streaming from the Liepaja Great Amber Concert Hall (“Lielais dzintars”) on May 14th at 8.00 PM. It will be available on the “Virtual Circle” streaming platform of the prestigious music agency “HarrisonParrott”. The special concert guest will be the pianist Vestards Šimkus.

On Saturday, April 24th at 22.00 Latvian Radio Big Band together with vocalist, composer and guitarist Chris Noah will perform the second concert within the concert series “In the Spotlight”. The concert will air on “ReTV” and retv.lv

One of the best Lithuanian performers – Justinas Jarutis – on the DRIVE IN LIVE stage! On April 23rd, Justinas with a live band will step on stage and give the listeners everything that was taken away from them during quarantine. Energy, passion, but most importantly LIVE MUSIC!

On Friday, the 75th anniversary concert of Pēteris Vasks “Presence” (LV – “Klātbūtne”) will be performed in the Concert Hall “Cēsis”

Last weekend was the celebration of 5 years of FUNK-SOUL-DISCO affairs at the Embassy with their first ever funk-festival!

Estonian band ‘Gram-Of-Fun’ presented their latest single ‘LA’ in an energetic and fun show together with fellow musicians from ‘Frankie Animal’, Fredi, OYT, Johanna Oden from ‘I Wear* Experiment’ and Eygo. What a night!

This Friday & Saturday, from July 2 – 3, the SUME Festival will finally take place in Tallinn, Estonia! The Festival combines domestic music, good taste and contemporary art, taking place in the magical Noblessner Harbour area in Tallinn.

On October 6 the band “Carnival Youth” stopped in Riga as part of their concert series “Naive Ku-ku” and gave an emotionally saturated and colourful concert performing the brightest soundtrack pearls from classic Latvian films.