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Riga ready for music and arts festival
Riga is ready for the Bildes music and art festival which runs Nov 27 - 29 and Dec 6 - 8. Bildes combines music and contemporary art with many of the visual artworks created by the musicians themselves as well as professional photographers, artists and actors.
The musical part of the festival will encompass six days of shows with artists from Latvia, Nigeria and Denmark. The shows will take place in the Cetri Balti Krekli and the Riga Congress Center Nov. 27 - 29 and Dec. 6 - 8 respectively.
There are two days of blues and jazz, a day of folk, a day of children’s music.
This year’s art theme is “suitcases.” There will be two major suitcase art exhibitions, a photographic exhibition called Alpine Suitcases and an exhibition called “The Suitcase Parade.”
This article was written for TravelSavvy Europe by Rad Djork. If you know of an interesting European travel related news story, please get in contact.
