Latvian Song and Dance Festival in St. Paul celebrates music and culture More than 8,000 are expected to attend festival events that also include film, theater, visual arts and children's activities.

Saucējas are tremendously powerful. Experiencing them at Riga Music Week’s outdoor Folk Stage in Latvia’s repeatedly rain-sodden capital is akin to being blasted by a full-force leaf blower. Next up ...

Less than a year after declaring independence from the quickly dissolving USSR, and shortly before the Baltic Republic of Latvia officially came into being, Modris Skaistkalns aka Mr. Tape, appeared ...

Latvian musician Elizabete Balčus has been compared to St Vincent, Bjork, and Efterklang among a number of reverential artists, something she finds flattering yet also takes in her stride. Based in ...

If the eye-catching box design doesn’t attract your attention, the first track on CD 1 will, an extract from the veteran Latvian composer Imants Kalniņš’s 1973 score to the popular Latvian film Blow, ...