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02.04.2013 |
LETA
Several popular groups, including the critically-acclaimed "The xx" from Great Britain, will perform at the "Positivus" music festival this year, as festival organizers informed LETA.
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02.04.2013 |
Nozare.lv
The number of visitors in hotels and other accommodation establishments comprised 1.6 million in 2012, and they spent a total of 3.5 million nights in Latvia last year, according to the Central Statistical Bureau's data.
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02.04.2013 |
Nozare.lv
The multi-partner loyalty program "BalticMiles" expanded from 130 to 210 partners in 2012, up 61 percent from 2011, as the company informed the "Nozare.lv" business portal.
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02.04.2013 |
LETA
Tickets to this summer's XXV Latvian Song and Dance Festival will cost from LVL 1 to 30, according to the festival's organizers.
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26.02.2013
The critically acclaimed dream pop band The xx have been added to the Positivus festival 2013 line-up as the second headliners of the festival. Other confirmed acts include the explosive Canadian duo Crystal Castles, the melodic Foxes, the Danish indie rockers Efterklang, the instrumental Elektro Guzzi as well as the Latvian cult rock band Jauns Mēness. The previously announced headliner are Sigur Rós.
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22.02.2013 |
LETA
The Latvian movie ''Dream Team 1935'' (''Sapnu Komanda 1935''), which is about the Latvian basketball team which became the first ever European champions that year, has transformed Lithuanians, at least for two hours, into Latvian basketball fans, the Lithuanian news portal ''Delfi.lt'' writes in its movie review after the Latvian movie had its premiere in Lithuania.
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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
"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.
