Celebrate

In 2008, three Baltic countries — Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia — will celebrate 90 years since their independence. Year 2008 will also be significant for Latvia as around 35 000 participants will gather in our capital Riga for the XXIV Song and XIV Dance Celebration. It is not just a festival — the tradition goes back for 135 years and in 2003 together with Lithuanian and Estonian Song and Dance tradition it was recorded in the UNESCO list of Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage.

http://www.dziesmusvetki2008.lv/index.php?&99

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11 Responses

1. MrReactor1 Says:
   August 24th, 2009 at 1:44 am

   what is “mass …
   what is “mass nationalism”?

   Russians are showinists.
   Latvians are nationalists (mostly when provoked. We are quite peace loving).

   what you mean unde mass I don’t know… Maybe Nort Korea (and that too, jsut becasue they don’t know better)

2. agrishin Says:
   August 24th, 2009 at 1:44 am

   Actual’y i like …
   Actual’y i like Latvia, Estonia but i’m allergic to MASS nationalism, i think its tastiful, would it be Russian, Soviet communist, Baltic, but its just the matter of taste sorry…

3. VonRix Says:
   August 24th, 2009 at 1:44 am

   Well, imagine – do …
   Well, imagine – do you think – I as a Latvian on the evening when Italy became world champions in football would feel the same what felt the italians. I don’t think so.

4. agrishin Says:
   August 24th, 2009 at 1:44 am

   I’m sorry i cannot …
   I’m sorry i cannot write on my mothers tongue she is dead. I think would she alive she wouldn’t accept me to do that :/

5. agrishin Says:
   August 24th, 2009 at 1:44 am

   Sounds Too …
   Sounds Too Mysteries, to feel “something” you have to be Latvian?!

6. fcalbrecht Says:
   August 24th, 2009 at 1:44 am

   Es biju… un man …
   Es biju… un man Loti Patik

7. gmale9 Says:
   August 24th, 2009 at 1:44 am

   Because its about …
   Because its about as useful as Welsh.

8. Inessee1 Says:
   August 24th, 2009 at 1:44 am

   agrishin, why …
   agrishin, why don`t you write in your mother tongue…

9. VonRix Says:
   August 24th, 2009 at 1:44 am

   The only leaders …
   The only leaders that are honoured are song writers, poets, directors. Plus – you don’t watch song festival, you feel it, and to feel it you have to be latvian.

10. VonRix Says:
    August 24th, 2009 at 1:44 am

    Yes, except the …
    Yes, except the people here do it voluntarily, nobody forces them to get together on the evening 4 years long and learn the songs and dance steps of our forefathers, and the songs are not about leaders and great peple, they are about mother and father, the orphans, and soldiers who are forced to leave home, about singing and dancing, about sun, about silver forest thats has to be respected, about nature, ravens and oak treees.

11. agrishin Says:
    August 24th, 2009 at 1:44 am

    sounds and looks …
    sounds and looks like North kore’n arorang

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