KENNEDY ADMINISTRATION

On July 4, Riga Cathedral Garden will be filled with heartfelt songs of West African people, as the new global music star Momi Maiga will perform at the Rīgas Ritmi Festival, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Momi Maiga is a Senegalese singer and kora player, who has added European folk and even classical music influences to African musical traditions in his work.

The Rīgas Ritmi Festival will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year in early July. Representatives of the American new wave of jazz – the jazz-funk band Kennedy Administration and singer Shayna Steele with the premiere of the Latvian Maestro Raimonds Pauls song program Shayna Steele sings Raimonds Pauls, kora master from Senegal Momi Maiga – will also celebrate together with the festival team.
 

Continuing the rearranging of Latvian folk music and the compositions by legendary Latvian composers in the jazz genre, the album Latgalian Evergreens by the Māris Briežkalns quintet dedicated to the Latgale region in Latvia has been released.