A music album has been released in honor of the march of the “modern Barons” from Tartu to Dundaga

Imants Ziedonis Foundation “Easy” releases a digital music album “On the Way to the Baron”. Folk music recording released in honor of the project “Ziedonis Museum on the way with the Baron” walk from Tartu to Dundaga At the end of last summer, the representatives of the Easy Foundation informed. –

The music recording was created by the foundation “viegli” musicians Jānis Upmanis-Holstein (Goran Gora), Renārs Kaupers and Jānis Strapcāns, with the participation of Rūta and Valdis Muktupāvelis, Stanislavs Judinas and Mārtiņš Miļevskis. The compositions created in the sound of folk music were originally used in the multi-series documentary “Towards the Baron” made by the Ziedonis Museum, which premiered in the spring of 2021.

For the most part, everyone who runs, Nordic sticks or hikes has created their own individual “running playlists”. They hear music that encourages them, helps them keep pace or just inspires them. After the multi-series film “On the Way to the Baron” appeared on TV screens, it was clear that this more than 800-kilometer-long hiking route is also united by music that can be heard throughout the eight series, “says musician Goran Gora. Among the modern arrangements of folk songs are compositions with the names “Barons in the Forest”, “Barons in the Meadow” and “Barons in the Storm”, which symbolize the modern Barons’ journey from Tartu to Dundaga. “We wanted to publish this musical material so that everyone who travels through music can feel the feelings that ruled the hearts of 65 people, measuring the symbolic procession of Krišjānis Barons from 1859, when modern Latvia and Estonia were the same, but very different. , ”Continues Goran Gora.

This autumn the project “Ziedonis Museum on the way with the Baron” will experience its last stage – book “Description of our homeland” publication in English to bring the message of the history of our nation to the wider world. The English edition of the book has been supplemented with an article by the renowned historian Andrejs Plakans, an exiled Latvian, on the development of Latvian culture before Latvian statehood, as well as articles by Estonian and Lithuanian scholars on the Baltic States’ path to independence.

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