Riga, Latvia’s Skaņu mežs festival for adventurous music will host its 21 edition on October 6-8 at concert hall Hanzas Perons (16a Hanzas street), with an opening event on September 30 at the venue Tu Jau Zini Kur (Tallinas street 10-3). Tickets can be purchased at www.bilesuserviss.lv. Festival ticket price is 50 EUR. One-day tickets are priced as follows: September 30 – 25 EUR; October 6 or 7 – 35 EUR.
October 8 – free admission.
Last year, The Wire Magazine hailed Skaņu Mežs as “wildly ambitious” and “the biggest avant-garde music festival in the Baltics”.
Read an overview of the program here.
Due to personal reasons Raven Chacon will not visit Skaņu Mežs 2023; his music will still be performed by the Mivos Quartet.
Click here for sequence of performances and approximate start times
September 30, 18:00, Tu jau zini kur (Tallinas iela 10-3)
October 6, 19:00, Hanzas Perons (16a Hanzas street)
October 7, 19:00, Hanzas Perons (16a Hanzas street)
October 8, 13:00, Hanzas Perons (16a Hanzas street)
Installation, Hanzas Perons (Hanzas street 16a), exhibited October 6-8
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Skaņu Mežs is a member of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and audiovisual art as well as the project tekhnē, supported by the European Union and the Latvian Ministry of Culture.
Skaņu Mežs festival is supported by the State Cultural Capital Fund, Danish Cultural Institute, Riga City Council, the Latvian Ministry of Culture, Goethe-Institut Lettland, Danish Cultural Institue, Trust for Mutual Understanding, and the Nordic Culture Point. Sponsors of the festival are Valmiermuiža and Very Berry.
Media partners: TVNET, Satori, Mūzikas Saule, Kultūras Diena, Rīgas Laiks, Radio NABA, Ir, and Latvian Radio.
Skaņu mežs is a member of the international network ICAS (International Cities of Advanced Sound) and the Northern European music festival network NERDS (North European Resonance and Dissonance Society). Media partners are TVNET, Rīgas Laiks and Mūzikas Saule.
The festival will also feature activities of LYRA, a project for kids and teens that is supported by the EEA Grants and Norway Grants funded by Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway.
