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ZARA LARSSON ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM AND CONCERT AT XIAOMI ARENA, RIGA
Today, multiplatinum chart–topping global pop powerhouse Zara Larsson kicks her boldest era yet into overdrive with the announcement of her new album and tour. She will perform in Riga on 16 November with her only show in the Baltics as part of the tour for her new album “Midnight Sun”.SHAME TO PERFORM AT PALLADIUM RIGA
Rock adrenaline is coming to Riga. On 12 October, British post-punk quintet Shame will take over concert hall Palladium with a performance that proves even apparent chaos on stage can transform into tightly polished interplay.Smash Into Pieces to perform at Palladium Riga this fall
Powerful vocals, soaring melodies, aggressive guitars and anthemic symphonic metal grandeur - these are the hallmarks of Swedish pop metal band Smash Into Pieces, who will electrify Palladium Rīga on 5 October. Tickets go on sale 4 June at 11:00 via Biļešu Serviss.The world-renowned musician Matteo Bocelli returns to Latvia!
On October 9, Arena Xiaomi will be filled with Italian charm and the magic of a beautiful voice. Matteo Bocelli will present the Latvian audience with an inspiring program, where classical and popular music blend together with elegance.Eurovision star Tommy Cash to perform in Riga
Celebrating his success at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, Estonian rapper Tommy Cash is heading out on a European tour and will perform at Palladium Riga on October 27! Expect a night of music dripping with sarcasm, bold lyrics, and a provocative persona that won't go unnoticed.Swedish rapper Bladee to perform in Riga
The shining star of Sweden’s contemporary cloud rap scene – Bladee – will perform on December 1st at the Palladium Riga concert hall. This will be a unique opportunity for Latvian listeners to experience live one of the brightest members of the “Drain Gang” collective.Icelandic singer Daði Freyr to perform in Riga
Groovy melodies, catchy lyrics, and genuine simplicity – these are the words that best describe Icelandic pop culture phenomenon and multi-instrumentalist Daði Freyr, who will perform at the Palladium concert hall in Riga on October 3.Enter Shikari – Riga
Craving for a proper mosh pit? Enter Shikari – the fantastic British post-hardcore band known for their intense and high-energy performances – is coming to Riga!Rag’n’Bone Man, Apashe & Brass Orchestra to perform at Postivus
Joining the Positivus festival line-up are Rag’n’Bone Man, known for his unique voice and emotionally charged songs that combine elements of blues, soul, and hip-hop, and electronic master Apashe, who will join forces with the majestic band Brass Orchestra.Dave Stewart to perform Eurythmics hits in Latvia
In the midst of summer, on July 21, Dave Stewart will perform for the first time in the Baltics at the Sigulda Castle with the legendary Eurythmics classic catalogue.Tickets for the concert available at Biļešu ServissPositivus festival announces first artists
Positivus introduces the first names of this year's program, which we will experience on August 8th and 9th in Riga, Lucavsala. Surrounded by the hustle and bustle of the city, this year's festival will be slightly different from the last few years.The Cult to perform at Palladium concert hall this summer
British hard rock legends The Cult will be performing in Latvia for the first time on June 11, taking the stage at Palladium Riga! Members of the Positivus Festival concert club will have access to pre-sale tickets starting March 19 at 11:00 AMJacob Collier will perform at Xiaomi Arena in Riga
Imagine a arena, with you in the crowd, singing your heart out as thousands of voices join together. "Somebody to Love" fills the air - one of the most powerful anthems of all time, celebrating life's best things. Sounds like a dream? It’s not! It’s Jacob Collier.DJ Maddix to perform in Riga on April 11
Riga is about to ignite with the electrifying beats of electronic music as world-renowned DJ and producer Maddix arrives in Latvia! On April 11, he will take the stage at Palladium for a night like no other. Tickets are available now via “Biļešu Serviss”Mogwai to perform at Palladium concert hall
Scottish post-rock giants Mogwai will soon arrive in Riga to take listeners on an atmospheric and hypnotic musical journey. An unforgettable evening is guaranteed on September 9 at Palladium Concert Hall. Tickets via "Biļešu Serviss".Dropkick Murphys to perform at Palladium concert hall
Dropkick Murphys are set to take the stage at Palladium Concert Hall on October 25, promising an unforgettable night of high-energy music and pure Boston spirit! Tickets go on sale on February 28 at 10.00 via the “Biļešu Serviss” network.This summer Positivus Festival will take place on august 8 and 9
This year's festival will take place for the first time in August – on August 8th and 9th in Riga, Lucavsala. For the seventeenth time, the festival will bring many music stars to Latvia and the first artist line-up announcement is expected in the upcoming weeks.Fedde Le Grand to Perform in Riga on July 25
Icon Fedde Le Grand will perform an unforgettable show in Riga on July 25, 2025. Known for massive hits like "Put Your Hands Up" and "The Creeps", Fedde is set to deliver an electrifying night of non-stop beats, high-energy performances, and immersive visuals.Legendary AC/DC to perform in Estonia this summer
Today The legendary multi-million selling band AC/DC announced that they will return to Europe this summer to continue their “POWER UP” tour. As part of the show, AC/DC will perform for the first time on the Tallinn Song Festival groundsSecond date added for Nick Cave in Sigulda
Due to overwhelming fan demand, a second Nick Cave performance has been added at the Sigulda Medieval Castle. The first show sold out within hours, resulting in a deal with the artist's management for an additional date on August 13th.Rock and roll desert kings Queens of the Stone Age will perform at Arena Riga
If you want to experience a storm of sound that touches both the mind and the heart, then get ready - Queens of the Stone Age for the first time will perform at Arena Riga on August 1st to shake up music fans in Latvia!One Republic will perform in Arena Riga next fall on November 4th
Have you ever heard thousands sing along to “Counting Stars” or “Apologize”? Then you know that this is just the beginning of what we will experience when OneRepublic returns to Latvia to electrify Arena Riga next fall on November 4th.Robbie Williams will perform in Latvia at Mežaparks
A concert that will rewrite the music experience - Robbie Williams on August 3rd at Mežaparks. Forget the usual - Robbie Williams is ready to surprise, provoke and excite!Next year The Offspring will perform in Latvia
The long-awaited moment when The Offspring will perform in Riga has arrived. That's right - experience the concert of the iconic punk rock giant The Offspring in Arena Riga on October 5th, 2025.Next spring Yann Tiersen returns to Riga with a new program
On March 16, the French multi-instrumentalist and composer Yann Tiersen will perform at the Palladium concert hall. After a 9-year gap, he returns to Latvia to offer to the concertgoers a special two-in-one program. The first part of the concert will be occupied by a piano performance of the Tiersen's best-known pieces, while during the second part he will give an electronic music performance, which named “Kerber Complete Tour: Solo Piano + Electronics”.
The new tour will focus on making personal connections, finding people and places that would be impossible within the constraints of a usual tour. With no crew, rider or any of the usual paraphrenia of touring, Tiersen will journey across Europe solo in his campervan, avoiding motorways, stopping to play in rural towns and villages, and he plans to make arrangements to eat at a friend, promoter, venue owner or fan’s home each day. The tour will start in Orleans, in France and travel throughout Europe, ending in Brittany.
As part of this relaxed tour, also the event on March 16 will take place in Riga's Palladium concert hall.
Tickets in the entire www.bilesuserviss.lv network from Wednesday, November 15.
Yann Tiersen's name is probably first associated with the chords permeated by dreamy melancholy in the romantic comedy "Amélie" (with the lovely Audrey Tautou in the lead role) or the sound waves of anxiety in the German tragicomedy "Good Bye, Lenin!". However, Tiersen's musical boundaries extend far beyond the horizons of just the world of cinema. Yes, critics have compared his work to the ones of Philip Glass and Michael Nyman, and there is no doubt that Tiersen is one of the greatest and most original composers of our century, but at the same time, his music is not easy to classify. His musical style is deceptively easy to recognize but difficult to define. It varies greatly from one album to another and with time. His melancholic music and composing techniques mix classical and folk music elements with pop and rock ones.
Yann Tiersen composes and makes arrangements incorporating using an unimaginable number of different instruments (a part of which even can't be named musical). From the classical grand to the toy piano, from various guitars to the bouzouki and oud, from the French horn and saxophone to the glockenspiel, vibraphone and tam-tam, or the sounds produced by typewriters, cooking vessels or bicycle wheels. Amazingly, Tiersen himself plays all these traditional and not so traditional instruments both in the studio or on a live set.
Even though in an interview, Yann Tiersen emphasizes: "I'm not a composer and I really don't have a classical [musical] background", it's still coquetry. At the age of 4, little Yann learns to play the piano, and when he reaches his 6th birthday, he starts learning the violin. In his later years, he received classical training at several musical academies, including those in Rennes, Nantes, and Boulogne-sur-Mer.
While studying in Rennes, he manages to see bands like Nirvana, Einstürzende Neubaten, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, The Cramps, Television, Suicide, etc. Perhaps this is influenced by teenage maximalism: at the age of 13, Yann breaks his violin, buys a guitar and starts a rock band. But its life is short-lived, and soon Tiersen is alone again.
Instead of looking for new bandmates, he buys a cheap mixing desk and an 8-track reel-to-reel tape recorder. Experimenting with a synthesizer, a sampler and a drum machine, Yann's recording music on his own. In search of the imagined perfect sound, he listens to "tons of different music" and, not finding what he was looking for, comes to the conclusion that "you can take a lousy violin and create it yourself". In the summer of 1993, using the guitar, violin and piano accordion, around 40 compositions were created, which soon turned into Yann Tiersen's first two albums. The author himself calls it "a musical anarchic vision", because he did not follow classical canons, but intuition and his inner vision.
In 1995 and 1996, with an interval of 6 months, the first albums of Yann Tiersen "La Valse Des Monstres" and "Rue Des Cascades" (a collection of short pieces created with a toy piano, a harpsichord, a violin, a piano accordion, and a mandolin) were released. Five years later several tracks received greater exposure when they were featured on the Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film “Amélie”.
The soundtrack was a mixture of both new and previously released material, and Tiersen was also the recipient of the César Award for “Best Music Written for a Film”, and of the World Soundtrack Academy award. The soundtrack album charted in many countries, including the number one position on the French Albums Chart.
During that time, also the albums of the music author have already gained considerable recognition. The album "Le Phare", released in 1998, received enthusiastic critical acclaim (Tiersen is called one of the most original and leading composers of the new century) and became a commercial success.
In the following albums, he begins to collaborate with a number of well-known musicians and soloists: Ensemble Orchestral Synaxis, Lisa Germano, Neil Hannon (Divine Comedy), Jane Birkin, Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins), Stuart A. Staples (Tindersticks), etc.
In the middle of the last decade, Tiersen also took his music out around the world, playing shows with a full orchestra and an amplified string quartet.
It is natural that the world fame of “Amélie” made the author of its music in demand in film circles. In 2003 and 2008, the tragicomedy “Good Bye, Lenin!” and the documentary drama “Tabarly” appeared on the screens. And this time the soundtracks for both were conceived from scratch.
The most recent work of Yann Tiersen is the album "11 5 18 2 5 18", which was presented to the listeners in 2022.
More info:
https://www.facebook.com/ltipsagencylv
Videos:
Amélie theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0cZukTFXNw
Goodbye, Lenin! theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIa01kcmLgY
Excerpt from the electronic set https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxTm2csHjSk&t=291s
The new tour will focus on making personal connections, finding people and places that would be impossible within the constraints of a usual tour. With no crew, rider or any of the usual paraphrenia of touring, Tiersen will journey across Europe solo in his campervan, avoiding motorways, stopping to play in rural towns and villages, and he plans to make arrangements to eat at a friend, promoter, venue owner or fan’s home each day. The tour will start in Orleans, in France and travel throughout Europe, ending in Brittany.
As part of this relaxed tour, also the event on March 16 will take place in Riga's Palladium concert hall.
Tickets in the entire www.bilesuserviss.lv network from Wednesday, November 15.
Yann Tiersen's name is probably first associated with the chords permeated by dreamy melancholy in the romantic comedy "Amélie" (with the lovely Audrey Tautou in the lead role) or the sound waves of anxiety in the German tragicomedy "Good Bye, Lenin!". However, Tiersen's musical boundaries extend far beyond the horizons of just the world of cinema. Yes, critics have compared his work to the ones of Philip Glass and Michael Nyman, and there is no doubt that Tiersen is one of the greatest and most original composers of our century, but at the same time, his music is not easy to classify. His musical style is deceptively easy to recognize but difficult to define. It varies greatly from one album to another and with time. His melancholic music and composing techniques mix classical and folk music elements with pop and rock ones.
Yann Tiersen composes and makes arrangements incorporating using an unimaginable number of different instruments (a part of which even can't be named musical). From the classical grand to the toy piano, from various guitars to the bouzouki and oud, from the French horn and saxophone to the glockenspiel, vibraphone and tam-tam, or the sounds produced by typewriters, cooking vessels or bicycle wheels. Amazingly, Tiersen himself plays all these traditional and not so traditional instruments both in the studio or on a live set.
Even though in an interview, Yann Tiersen emphasizes: "I'm not a composer and I really don't have a classical [musical] background", it's still coquetry. At the age of 4, little Yann learns to play the piano, and when he reaches his 6th birthday, he starts learning the violin. In his later years, he received classical training at several musical academies, including those in Rennes, Nantes, and Boulogne-sur-Mer.
While studying in Rennes, he manages to see bands like Nirvana, Einstürzende Neubaten, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, The Cramps, Television, Suicide, etc. Perhaps this is influenced by teenage maximalism: at the age of 13, Yann breaks his violin, buys a guitar and starts a rock band. But its life is short-lived, and soon Tiersen is alone again.
Instead of looking for new bandmates, he buys a cheap mixing desk and an 8-track reel-to-reel tape recorder. Experimenting with a synthesizer, a sampler and a drum machine, Yann's recording music on his own. In search of the imagined perfect sound, he listens to "tons of different music" and, not finding what he was looking for, comes to the conclusion that "you can take a lousy violin and create it yourself". In the summer of 1993, using the guitar, violin and piano accordion, around 40 compositions were created, which soon turned into Yann Tiersen's first two albums. The author himself calls it "a musical anarchic vision", because he did not follow classical canons, but intuition and his inner vision.
In 1995 and 1996, with an interval of 6 months, the first albums of Yann Tiersen "La Valse Des Monstres" and "Rue Des Cascades" (a collection of short pieces created with a toy piano, a harpsichord, a violin, a piano accordion, and a mandolin) were released. Five years later several tracks received greater exposure when they were featured on the Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film “Amélie”.
The soundtrack was a mixture of both new and previously released material, and Tiersen was also the recipient of the César Award for “Best Music Written for a Film”, and of the World Soundtrack Academy award. The soundtrack album charted in many countries, including the number one position on the French Albums Chart.
During that time, also the albums of the music author have already gained considerable recognition. The album "Le Phare", released in 1998, received enthusiastic critical acclaim (Tiersen is called one of the most original and leading composers of the new century) and became a commercial success.
In the following albums, he begins to collaborate with a number of well-known musicians and soloists: Ensemble Orchestral Synaxis, Lisa Germano, Neil Hannon (Divine Comedy), Jane Birkin, Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins), Stuart A. Staples (Tindersticks), etc.
In the middle of the last decade, Tiersen also took his music out around the world, playing shows with a full orchestra and an amplified string quartet.
It is natural that the world fame of “Amélie” made the author of its music in demand in film circles. In 2003 and 2008, the tragicomedy “Good Bye, Lenin!” and the documentary drama “Tabarly” appeared on the screens. And this time the soundtracks for both were conceived from scratch.
The most recent work of Yann Tiersen is the album "11 5 18 2 5 18", which was presented to the listeners in 2022.
More info:
https://www.facebook.com/ltipsagencylv
Videos:
Amélie theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0cZukTFXNw
Goodbye, Lenin! theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIa01kcmLgY
Excerpt from the electronic set https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxTm2csHjSk&t=291s
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