Emotionally held festival “Rīgas Ritmi 2023”
The 23rd international improvisation, jazz and global music festival “Rīgas Ritmi”, which was successfully held from July 5 to 8 in the garden of the Riga Cathedral, in the art center “Noass” on the AB dam, where the “Jersika Stage” operated, and in the hotel “Radisson” has come to an end. Blu Latvija”, where the “Riga Jazz Lounge” stage was located.
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Cuban violinist and singer Yilian Cañizares performed in Riga Dome Garden on July 6 and 7 together with her compatriot, percussionist Inor Sotolongo and Mozambican guitarist Childo Thomas, offering the festival audience an experienced journey in both the more lively and calmer waters of Caribbean music, the French bluesman Charles Pasi together with group, performing a concert run from peaceful ballads to a percussive climax and creating the feeling of a real Brazilian carnival party at the end of the performance, as well as the Danish guitar virtuoso Jacob Gurevitsch, who together with the accompanying musicians offered to delve into the nuances of flamenco playing, creating the feeling of a lyrical and romantic concert evening. All three main guest artists of the festival also gave passionate and informative master classes in the studio of Latvian Radio 1.
“You can feel that the team of the “Rīgas Ritmi” festival really cares about music and artists,” admitted Cuban singer Yilian Cañizares. “I feel warmly and wonderfully received and have received a large dose of love from both the audience and the organizers. It was definitely a wonderful experience!”
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“Rīgas Ritmi” is a great festival!” the French artist Charles Passi also did not hide his joy at visiting Riga. “Welcoming, elegant, warm and in keeping with the image of this city and its people. I can also tell a small anecdote. When we arrived at the hotel, we were told that there was a jam session going on in the lobby bar. We wanted to play one or two songs together with the jammers, but after ten minutes of listening to the jam session band and realizing how good it was, none of us wanted to play anymore. We just listened and enjoyed. I think that says a lot about the quality of this festival.”
The central event of the “Rīgas Ritmi 2023” festival was the evening of July 7, marked by several standing ovations, which was held in the Dom garden on the warm and emotional melodic wave of Raimonds Paul, performed by the author himself together with musicians of a jazz trio and the chamber orchestra “Sinfonietta Rīga” under the direction of conductor Normunds Schne. versions of well-known Maestro compositions created by British arranger Callum Au. Raymond Pauls not only provided the inevitable dose of his characteristic humor on the stage, but also did not hide his emotion for the excellent concert evening.
The foreign journalists who came to the festival also marked an interesting view from the outside. Martin Longley from the largest British jazz magazine “Jazzwise” mentioned that the program of Raimond Paul and “Sinfonietta Rīga” sounded to him like very good and previously unheard classic movie music, Matti Komulainen, reviewer of Finland’s largest internet jazz magazine “Jazzrytmit” was surprised to hear at the concert legendary Finnish pop hit “Miljoona rosoa”, known in Latvian as “Dāvāja Māriņa”, but the journalist of the German jazz magazine “Jazzthetik”, Angela Ballhorn, did not hide her excitement both for the great melodies and the passionate performance of the Maestro at such a respectable age. Laima Slepkovaite, producer of jazz programs of the Lithuanian Radio, also expressed her undivided joy at the concert, but of course it can no longer be considered a “view from the outside”.
On the other hand, in the art center “Noass” on AB Damja, on July 7 and 8, the public was offered a festival program curated by the vinyl label “Jersika Records”. On the “Jersika Stage”, saxophonist Kārlis Auziņš performed an exciting program of new original compositions together with his trio, vibrophonist Miķelis Dzenuška created a fusion funk party together with the group “Uzvaras bulvāris”, while performing the program of the album “Satiksmes nozods” released this year, the project went into the realms of free improvisation. MASA”, which was initiated by the folk instrumentalist Rudolfs Macats, but the American trumpeter Jason Hunter quartet, living in Estonia, took care of a groovy conclusion to the combination of bop and funk, presenting the album “ImagiNation”, which will be released in the fall.
Meanwhile, on the “Riga Jazz Lounge” stage in the “Radisson Blu Latvija” hotel, the Latvian singer Monta Tupchijenko, who lives in Germany, the winner of the “Riga Jazz Stage” jazz artist competition last year, the charismatic British singer Louise Balkwill and the charming domestic singer Santa Šillere performed, after the concerts an evening with jam session continued by double bassist Andris Gruntes and colleagues.
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“Riga attracts,” summed up the artistic director of the “Rīgas Ritmi” festival Māris Briežkalns. “Riga attracts with its culture, and this year’s packed concerts of the “Rīgas Ritmi” festival were proof that there are enough music lovers for everyone – both for the Song and Dance Festival and the jazz music festival. All that remains is for the capital to choose as many valuable and ambitious cultural events as possible!”
The next festival “Rīgas Ritmi” will take place in 2024 from July 4 to 6, but four concerts of the festival concert series “Art of Riga Jazz” will be held this fall. More information on the festival website rigasritmi.lv.
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