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.

The first live performance at the inaugural Riga Music Week is by Saucējas. This seven-piece vocal ensemble is avowedly ...

Starting from today listeners can enjoy the latest album from vocal group Latvian Voices, ROTĀ, which brings together ten of ...

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 ...

SAINT PAUL, Minn. — For the first time in history, the prime minister from Latvia is here in Minnesota. Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins is in the Twin Cities for the Latvian Song and Dance Festival ...

Participants perform during the 13th Latvian School Youth Song and Dance Festival in Riga, Latvia, July 5, 2025. The festival, which is held every five years, is one of the biggest children's and ...

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 ...

Schoolchildren dance in formation as they participate in a folk-dance show as part of the School Youth Song and Dance Festival in Riga, capital of Latvia, on July 11, 2015. Dressed in traditional ...

The trade happened on the same day as Vija Garvey’s first rehearsal. Kristaps Porzingis, the reason her group was practicing Latvian folk dancing, had been shipped to the Mavericks, a blockbuster that ...