The Impact of Latvia’s Song and Dance Festival: Reflections and Future Plans

When else, if not in the late autumn evenings, is the time to reflect on the past year and make new plans for the next season of music events. Of course, this year passed under the sign of the Song and Dance Festival. For several weeks, nothing happened outside of this holiday. Latvia is as big as it is, and its resources, both human and technical, are what they are.

The song and dance festival was the biggest event of the year, and as befits a big event with a lot of participants and big money, like a big ship on a wide sea, the ripples created have still not subsided.

Each of us has our own assessment of the form and content of the Song and Dance Festival. I have my own.

Already today, we roughly understand what the next Song Festival will be like in five years – Mežapark, the stadium, Riga’s parks, everything will flicker like a single anthill, where both participants and spectators, both excited and indifferent, will be together. There will be those who will create the form of the Song and Dance Festival, there will be those who will fill in the content. Those who create the form, they usually also share the money of the Song and Dance festival, those who fill the content… They stay there, only with their enthusiasm and love for what they do.

And then suddenly, as if out of the blue, quite recently, the choir conductors of the Song and Dance Festival took the liberty of asking the creators of the Song and Dance uniforms for payment over the next 5 years until the next Song and Dance Festival. It was even allowed to mention that the current salary from the state to the leader of a choir or dance group for this work is thirty and a few more euros per month. You know, it’s completely irrelevant whether it’s thirty-one or nine.

2023-11-25 22:04:06
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