During Advent, Mazā gilde invites you to the concert series “Winter Sundays in Mazā gilde 2022”, where a varied program will be offered to listeners every Sunday until Christmas.
This Sunday, November 27, two guitarists – Gints Smukais and Rihards Lībietis – will perform at the First Advent concert “Stīgās tītā pasaka” in the Great Hall of the Little Guild.
In the concert program, the instrumentalists will lead the audience on an adventurous story around the world, in which entertaining musical motifs will intertwine with the influences of African, Middle Eastern and Latvian folk music combined with blues and jazz. The musicians will also enrich the program with self-composed melodies and improvisations from their original music.
Briefly about both musicians. Rihards Lībietis is a guitarist and songwriter who regularly performs and collaborates with various Latvian artists and bands, as well as the creator, performer, songwriter, producer and editor of the quintet “Rihards Lībietis Orchestra”. Gints Smukais regularly performs in concerts, performing original music and also collaborates with well-known names such as Jānis Aišpurs, Jānis Stībelis, “Musiqq”, Annija Putniņa, “Latvian Voices”, Kristīne Prauliņa, Olga Rajecka and many others. He has also performed on international stages and has participated in world competitions, where he is highly regarded as a guitarist who works successfully in the so-called “finger style”.
