Lielais Latgales Hītu festivāls
An annual outdoor music event held in the village of Aglona in the heart of the Latgale lake district, celebrating popular Latvian and Latgalian folk-pop acts in the countryside setting that defines the region's warm summer culture.
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"Tens of thousands of Catholic pilgrims and visitors converge each year on the tiny Latgale village of Aglona and its famous white-domed basilica for Latvia's most important religious outdoor gathering, a profound expression of Latgalian identity combining candlelit processions, open-air mass and national unity."
Vissvētākās Jaunavas Marijas Debesīs Uzņemšanas svētki Agonā
"Aglona's Assumption Day pilgrimage is Latvia's largest Catholic folk gathering, drawing thousands of worshippers in traditional Latgalian dress to the baroque basilica of this tiny village."
Vissvētākās Jaunavas Marijas debesīs uzņemšanas svētki, Aglona
"The Great Latgalian Hit Music Festival fills the fields around Aglona village with performances of popular Latgalian song, continuing a cherished regional tradition of summer outdoor music-making."
Lielais Latgaliešu hitu festivāls
"A large-format lakeside Jāņi night by Lukna Lake in the village of Višķi, Augšdaugava, with a strong concert and folk-dance programme running from dusk through the white Midsummer night."
Jāņi Višķos pie Luknas ezera
"A music, poetry and arts gathering at the Eduards Veidenbaums memorial farm museum deep in Vidzeme, inviting visitors to dance outdoors, share in community performances and savour the unhurried rhythm of a Latvian country summer."
Festivāls "Kalāči"
"A rock music festival staged on the atmospheric hillfort open-air stage at Skrunda in its third edition, featuring a new young performers competition alongside established Latvian acts in a small Kurzeme riverside town."
Festivāls "Roks par brīvību"
"At the Sudmalnieku birzs mill-grove stage in Snēpele, this pre-Jāņi evening unites a pagan fire ritual, sunset vigil, Jāņu cheese making around the bonfire, and an intimate kokle folk music concert."
Ielīgošana "Kad zvaigznes līgo debesīs" Snēpelē
"A full-day midsummer programme in Līgatne running from morning concerts on the Gauja riverbank through a solstice market and wreath-making to an evening of bonfire singing in the Zanderu meadows."
Vasaras saulgrieži Līgatnē
"A pre-solstice gathering at Vilgāle's open-air stage in Kuldīga district where participants make Jāņu cheese over meadow fires, churn butter, weave elaborate flower wreaths, and browse a small artisan market alongside live folk performances."
"Kad zied papardes sapņi" Vilgālē
"A cherished hillside gathering at Zanderu kalns in the Gauja valley where villagers and visitors weave oak and flower wreaths, burn last year's wreath on a great bonfire, and sing through the white midsummer night with a resident folklore group."
Saulgriežu svinības Zanderu kalnā