Latvia rsquo;s bagpipe and drum group Auli have surprised audiences with a new music video created far from home ndash; in ...

When Grand Rapids hosts the Latvian Song & Dance Festival next July, it will mark a historic milestone not only for a city ...

Latvian Song and Dance Festival in St. Paul celebrates music and culture More than 8,000 are expected to attend festival events that also include film, theater, visual arts and children's activities.

Saucējas are tremendously powerful. Experiencing them at Riga Music Week’s outdoor Folk Stage in Latvia’s repeatedly rain-sodden capital is akin to being blasted by a full-force leaf blower. Next up ...

Less than a year after declaring independence from the quickly dissolving USSR, and shortly before the Baltic Republic of Latvia officially came into being, Modris Skaistkalns aka Mr. Tape, appeared ...

Latvian musician Elizabete Balčus has been compared to St Vincent, Bjork, and Efterklang among a number of reverential artists, something she finds flattering yet also takes in her stride. Based in ...

Production values were high, reflecting perhaps the diplomatic motivations. Above the stage was positioned a frame incorporating four huge screens in a rectangular formation, onto which animations and ...