Valmiermuiža hosts ethno music festival / Article

For the fifth year in a row, the largest ethno-music festival in Latvia has found its home in Valmiermuiža Park, allowing two cultures, different eras and people to meet on two stages and in the hearts of the audience for two days.

Sabīne Vadāna, the head of the Valmiermuiža Cultural Society, explained: , also loud, rhythmic and powerful. “

This year, the farthest guest has come from Madagascar – Kilema, the world ‘s music flagship, is able to pull the audience into the sunny rhythms on the big “Butter” stage.

In the “Barn” stage, Albin Paulus surprised the audience from Austria with bagpipes, organ, iodeling and an unusual tube on which to imitate the rhythms of electronic music.

“This place is very suitable for my music, I feel at home, the people here are so crazy and nice,” Paulus said of the performance at the festival.

On the evening of the first day of the festival, Latvian and Estonian poetry, language and music intertwined on the stage. Domestic post-folk groups will play contemporary folk music.

Musician Julgī Stalte emphasized: “The main thing is that people start to feel, start to feel both the old material and the newer material. Of course, we have always used new forms to attract someone who is still traveling in such a modern world, for in fact this path to an older, purer layer is very difficult and many have gone through it, but if you hit the nerve that touches the soul, then the person will look for himself. “

Poet, translator, festival participant Guntars Godiņš noted: “Ethnofestival is also a root festival, it means that we remember its old folk songs, we remember old lyrics, but we look at it with our own eyes, with new eyes. There are very different musicians here. from all over the world, and this festival will have a tradition, so it is very important.

As darkness approached, for the first time in Latvia, the Polish ladies’ trio “Sutari” took the stage, using both traditional instruments and even a grater or knife sharpener.