Latvian Voices a cappella festival will take place digitally this year / Article

Latvian Voices this year a cappella The festival will be held for the fifth time, and, adapting to the current conditions, the festival will be held in digital form for the first time, the organizers informed. Continuing the festival’s tradition of passing on its accumulated knowledge, this year the festival program will consist not only of concerts, but also master classes. The festival is planned free of charge on June 18 and 19.

This year’s festival hedlaineri is a Finnish vocal group, Rajaton, which has performed in more than 25 countries around the world and sold more than 100,000 copies of albums, winning several gold and even platinum album titles. “Unlimited” with a special performance “Latvian Voices” dedicated to this festival a cappella The vocal group “The Garden”, “Latvian Voices” and Jānis Strazdiņš will perform live from Valmiera on June 18 on the channels of the festival “Youtube” and “Facebook”.

As usual, the tradition of the festival’s education and master classes will be continued. On June 18th and 19th, there will be 10 different online master classes on all day long a cappella topics ranging from creativity and voice as a tool to learning to ending with beatbox acquisition of techniques and recommendations in the management of international concert tours. They will be led by Latvian Voices members and Jānis Strazdiņš, as well as experienced foreign lecturers – Jussi Chydenius from the Finnish group Rajaton. beatbox artist Daniel Barke from Germany and Christian Hacker from Hacker Music Management in Germany.

In the fifth edition of the anniversary festival, it is also planned to introduce a new tradition – a series of programs ”A cappella talks ”, which will be published on the group’s social accounts every Thursday in June before the opening of the festival.

In addition, the group “Latvian Voices” offers listeners a new song and video “Vaivari vai nevari”. “Vaivari vai nevari” is a song created by Laura Jēkabsone, which was made longing for the usual concert trips of “Latvian Voices” and also simply as a heartfelt joke. Beāte Krūmiņa, a member of the group, said: “The song is a game of various Latvian place names, which encouraged us to visit these places – from Pape to Ludza, also getting to know the pearls of Latvia that have not been discovered yet. One listen is definitely not enough to hear everything encoded. We wish every listener to accept the challenge “” Can or can’t “travel around Latvia?” and we really hope to see you at all these places in concerts soon! ”

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