Skaņu mežs festival for adventurous music will celebrate its 20th anniversary on September 23-24 at concert hall Hanzas Perons (16a Hanzas street). Tickets can be purchased at www.bilesuserviss.lv. One-day tickets cost 20 EUR, whereas a two-day pass costs 30 EUR.
Recalling the festival’s origins in Āgenskalns, on 16 September at 19:00, a free Skaņu mežs opening concert will take place at the refurbished Āgenskalns Market.
September 16, 19:00, Āgenskalns market pavilion (2nd floor, 64 Nometņu street)
Martin Wheeler
Gas of Latvia
Chris Corsano & Lotte Anker
NFNR* (SHAPE+)
Sote**
Figūras
September 23, 19:00, Hanzas Perons (16a Hanzas street)
Zahnrad
Yvette Janine Jackson
Peter Ablinger & Biliana Voutchkova*
François Bonnet plays Bernard Parmegiani / Kassel Jaeger
Alya Al-Sultani & Mariam Rezaei**
Yuko Araki**
M.CAYE CASTAGNETTO con ANGEL BODY IMPORT
Perc (live experimental set)
SKD (DJ set)
September 24, 19:00, Hanzas Perons (16a Hanzas street)
Edgars Rubenis
Evija Skuķe – Sievietība koloratūrsoprānam un klavierēm (pasaules pirmatskaņojums)
Amirtha Kidambi** & Matt Evans
Russell Haswell 
[Ahmed]**
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Space Afrika
Mariam Rezaei (DJ set)
September 25, 13:00, Hanzas Perons (16a Hanzas street)
LYRA – project for young listeners (Free entry!)
Supported by Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway EEA Grants and the Ministry of Culture
Linda Leimane, Mārtiņš Grauds and Sabīne Moore – Latvian Animals, world premiere
Jenny Berger Myhre and Anne Bielski – The Grinder, world premiere
*Artist of the SHAPE+ platform for inovative music and a/v art, co-funded by the “Creative Europe” programme of the EU.
**Presented as part of the REMAIIN project that investigates the influences of the music of other continents on the European experimental music of the present and the past. It is co-funded by the “Creative Europe” programme of the EU.
