On June 1st inframework of “Sunset festival” the picturesque Sigulda castle will turn into a huge open air club where DJs performances will be enriched by gorgeous lighting and video projection show. The headliners of this electronic night will be DJs and producers Jonas Blue and Sigala. More artists will be announced later.
Now there are four festival days in total featuring: June 1st (Jonas Blue and Sigala), July 5th (Clean Bandit), July 10th (Emeli Sandé) and July 14th (Radio SWH 25th anniversary with Army of Lovers, Haddaway,Dr Alban, Ace of Bace and Rozalla).
Jonas Blue
Born in UK as Guy James Robin in 1988. He started his career in 2015 with phenomenal success of Tracy Chapman’s Fast Cars remix. Interesting that Jonas Blue and British singer’s Dakota’s version of the song became more popular than the original: it reached 2nd place in UK single chart and was between top 10 songs for three months. This debut single got multi platinum status in a number of European countries and was nominated for BRIT award in two categories: Single of the year and Video of the year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yXQJBU8A28
The next single – remix of song Perfect Strangers, which was released in 2016, again collects multi platinum status. This time not only in Europe, but also in USA and Australia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPTfXwPf_HM
All these songs are included in Jonas Blue debut album “Jonas Blue: Electronic Nature – The Mix 2017”.
Sigala
Sigala or Bruce Fielder by real name was born in Norfolk, UK in 1992. By the age of eight he started to learn piano, later he got education in Norwich college and University of Westminster. His debut single Easy Love was released in 2015 and it got straight to the top of UK single chart reaching the platinum status not only in Europe but in Australia as well.
https://youtu.be/ozx898ADTxM
The next single in very same year called Sweet Lovin achieves similar success – 3rd in UK Single chart, gold and platinum status in a row of European countries.
https://youtu.be/qj5zT4t7S6c
Next year, in 2016, Sigala is not less productive: in collaboration with well known artists John Newman and Neil Rogers is written and released song Give Me Your Love, but with Craig David – Ain’t Giving Up.
Speaking about the newest success, the single Came Here For Love featuring Ella Eyre has to be noted. And of course, the very latest work – Lullaby with Paloma Faith on vocal.
https://youtu.be/Uq8fE3kKIBk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghSQz2BcDQUDocument2
Sunset Festival is the series of separate concerts and events held in the picturesque Sigulda Medieval Castle for the third year already. Traditionally the performances of the International music stars are enriched by local artists, as well the art and theatrical projects.
During those years on Sigulda castle stage and in the park the following artists have given their concerts: The xx , James, Damien Rice, Jessie Ware, The Naked and Famous, Kārlis Kazāks, Neon Saturdays, ZigZag, Franco Franco, Rīgas Modes, My Radiant You, Chris Noah, Audience Killers, Bandmaster and a few more.
Considering venue’s capacity there will be only 4000 tickets on sale to each festival day.
For much more convenience and atmosphere, the traditional Pilskungu (VIP) tickets will be available – see Good to know
Just like the previous years there will be special buses available from Riga to Sigulda and back to Riga afterwards.
More information:
http://www.jonasblue.com
https://www.sigalamusic.com
https://www.facebook.com/SunsetLatvia
For festival contacts:
sunset@ltips.lv
