“Riga Jazz Stage” wins the British singer, our Paul Saija – third

The international jazz artists’ competition “Riga Jazz Stage 2022” has ended at the Splendid Palace cinema, where ours also showed very recognizable achievements.

The prize for the best jazz vocalist was won by Louise Balkville from Great Britain, who was invited to perform at the Riga Rhythms Festival, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London and Nardis Jazz Club in Istanbul, 1,200 euro cash prizes and a Shure microphone from the sponsor “Best Music / AT”. Second place went to Valentina Fina from Italy, who was invited to perform at the Riga Rhythms Festival, the Visioon Festival in Tallinn and the Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London, as well as 1000 euro cash prizes. In our third place was our Paula Saija, who was invited to perform at the festivals “Rīgas Ritmi” and “Kaunas Jazz”, as well as prizes of 700 euros.

“It’s amazing!” you sow Louise Balkville.

“I didn’t expect it, it was such a wonderful competition! I am also very surprised by the Latvian jazz musicians and I was honored to be with them on the same stage. And I’m excited about the invitation to participate in the festival “Rīgas Ritmi”, I can’t wait to come here again this summer! I have a really great quartet to perform with. I will be happy to take them to the festival. The story is also about new music. We just released our debut album called First Class. The performers are Louise Balkville and The Mailmen, which is my band. That will be great! ”

At the same time, a jazz drummer competition took place, in which Domo Branch from the USA won, but the second place was taken by the representative of Latvia Pauls Pokratnieks. Third: Janik Balman (Belgium). The winner of the spectator award is Katrīna Kabiņecka from Latvia.

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