“I could brag.” # dziedundejo2021 koklu music concert film / Article

In the wood music film “I could be bragging”, percussion is revealed as a way of searching for a young person’s identity. The road to the future he wants to experience. The film is like a kokle itself, which has manifested itself in the twists and turns of history in various forms and sound techniques, thus being able to be both scenically contemporary and reminiscent of its origin and significance through ritual. Tradition, creativity and the symbolic power of kokle are revealed in the process of merging and transformation, revealing the essential – the actuality of heredity.

At the center of the film is a young koklnieks, who measures the distance of time and events towards the desired goal – to be a part of his own! A path that hardens and opens up a new perspective on the instrument and its many facets. This is the story of the creation and percussion of a percussion, in which groups of children and young percussion from all over Latvia join together with the young percussionist. Can they do it and succeed? Let it be! Make pride in yourself, your play fun and playmanship!

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Latvian school youth song and dance festival events # dziedundejo2021 take place from July 12 to the end of October. It is planned that the total program of the festival consists of 15 different events in choir singing, vocal music, instrumental music, dance, visual and visual plastic art, folklore. Events are planned in municipalities, as close as possible to the place of residence, outdoors. The number of participants in any celebration is from 1 to the number allowed in the country at that time, there is no large gathering, no centralized rehearsals and a long rehearsal process is planned. Events will be recorded on video. All videos will be donated to the Museum of Literature and Music for the upcoming Song and Dance Festival exposition as a bright testimony to the 21st century.

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