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22.02.2013 |
LETA
During the Grand Music Award 2012 ceremony at the Latvian National Opera last night, accordionist Ksenija Sidorova received the "Outstanding Performance" award for performing solo in Erki Sven Tuur's opus "Prophecy" at the Great Guild Hall on May 31 and a solo concert at the Spikeri Concert Hall on November 23 last year.
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22.02.2013 |
LETA
The European Film Academy has decided that next year's European Film Academy Awards will be held in Riga, the "Riga 2014" foundation informed LETA.
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22.02.2013 |
I am half Latvian and recently visited with my father - who is 86.
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22.02.2013 |
LETA
Two Latvian films were awarded at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival this year - Janis Nords' feature film "Mother, I Love You" (Mammu, es tevi milu!) and Evalds Lacis' animated film "Hedgehogs and the City" (Ezi un lielpilseta), Latvian film industry's public relations manager Astra Spalvena told LETA.
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22.02.2013
"Here We Go" sung by "PeR" will represent Latvia at the Eurovision song contest in Sweden this year.
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22.02.2013 |
LETA
In February, Latvians celebrate one of their traditional calendar festivals Meteni – a celebration dedicated to bidding farewell to the winter and welcoming the spring. Special folk songs are sung on this day, with people going out in merry song and dance to greet friends and neighbors.
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22.02.2013 |
LETA
On May 10, the Finnish rock band "Sunrise Avenue" will perform a concert at Riga's "Sapnu fabrika".
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22.02.2013 |
Latvia is one of the ten best ethical destinations to travel to in 2013, according to ethicaltraveler.org, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization that publishes a guide to the World’s Best Ethical Destinations each year.
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07.02.2013 |
LETA
The 9th saxophone music festival "Saxophonia" will kick off at Riga’s Saint John’s Church, which is one of the biggest such festivals in the Baltics and Eastern Europe.
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07.02.2013 |
LETA
The American rock-band ''The Killers'', one of the world’s most popular rock bands of the last few years, which last year released their fourth studio album ''Battle Born'', will perform a concert show at the Mezaparks Open-air Stage in Riga on June 26, the ''E.M. Concert'' concert agency informed LETA.
