Rīgas Ritmi Festival is one of the leading improvisation, jazz and global music festivals in the Baltics, widely known in Europe and the world as well. Every year in Riga, the stages of the festival brings together world-renowned and awarded artists, as well as new and unheard musical talents.
This year, the festival will be held for the 23rd time, offering the guests of Riga a wide program - a refined selection for music connoisseurs. This year, the representative of the new golden generation of Cuban jazz, singer and violinist Yilian Cañizares with the Resilience Trio, the charismatic French blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player Charles Pasi, the Danish flamenco virtuoso Jacob Gurevitsch and other foreign and domestic artists will perform at the festival, but the central event will be the premiere of Maestro Raimonds Paul's symphonic jazz program Songs without words together with the chamber orchestra Sinfonietta Rīga.