Our visit of two weeks to Latvia in 2013
From 1 until 15 July we (my wife and myself) have visited Latvia. The first week we were in Riga and the second week we stayed in Ventspils, on the west coast of Latvia.
In the first week, in Riga there was the 25th version of the International Song and Dance Festival (XXV Dziesmu Svetku). The festival is held every five years. The movie "Singing Nation" is a documental story about one of the most amazing and mind-blowing events in the world - Latvian Song and Dance Festival (In latvian - Dziesmu un Deju svetki). It’s a story about latvians power to outlive even hardest times in their history. It’s a story about pure celebration of life and happiness in music, dance and being latvians. We have visited 4 concerts of that festival. The last one was the 'Ligo concert' on the 7the of July, a very big concert with more than 16.000 singers. It started at 7:00 PM and the official end was at 1:15 AM. More than 6 hours of songs and other music. From 1:15 AM started the un-official part of the concert. Al songs were brand new for us. We leaved the concert at 5:00 AM. That was enough for us. Click on the link Ligo concert to see some highlights of that concert. On 7-3-2013 we visited a marvelous classical concert with a big orchestra and a choir of more than 800 people. Many conducters and solists. Some interesting parts can you see on the page classical concert On 7-6-2013 we visted the dance festivalOn that page is a link to the movie of the whole festival. From the fourth concert we have no movies, sorry. |