The of the when do people feel free . United and independent for the life of young people. Its when this celebrates in through. So im gone. For the last 150. 00 d is the country on the gold. 60 hosts a traditional song, anton festival. There are people who simply cant live without this festival. The smallest one. Yes. Think im crazy about music speaking to them. Its this is jane speaking. Its in my blog at the post, the progress you alainas from russia out of minds is lovely in 2 cultures in one country. Politically, a difficult relationship. Both are relevant to the festival. Here they are o one p for the, the full, the grams, and all the concepts, the participants must practice 5 years know twice a week. They rehearse traditional songs with roots and full clue, but also and professional music for russian singer, alina eagle, show you that these amenities open the door to not be out. In 1998, she took pots in the festival for the 1st time. Although she was still living in moscow, but the leaders and sisters came from nothing. Yeah. We have some all of these patients good that im actually locked in to yall said allison for my mother. It was important that i keep that part of my identity will go to some youth and mom is just to get them when i was 7. And obviously took me to the lab, getting embassy in moscow. And let me know where there was a locked in sunday school once a week of what we skipped before is 12 more than ever. I was ours. My mother was singing in the choir next door and them i do. That was my introduction by here and uh oh gosh, no, i mean, ya not be over 40 bucks or when she was my only to new after school. Later a lena, her so sign, you know, quiet and when they went to retail to perform, she fell in love with them not to be on campus in 2014, the most co native moved here today. Alina teachers, other not be in russian elementary school, after the lesson, a lease. And sophia, are going to then told me, auditorium, in last me, okay, a close of not be, as population speaks, russian is a capital rica, its about 60 percent. So clearly a majority, alina says, she build bridges between the 2 culture. Youve submitted the success, you were russian, children in the class who went to a lot in kindergarten, and can speak the language fluently, i use. But for others, let us just hardly ever spoken at home, and they have it harder at school coordinator. But according to what singing is to id, not don, thing is to among its positive their identity on a mans plato scro c. Bucks the women west and not to be up and once a week takes a 3 hour drive to dance or hospitals in another city. Oh man, some of the lives on the coast near rica, but the 52 year old fall and the only spends the weekends that during the week he works here on his own c bucks on the phone. So 2000 shrubs must be 10. 00 to 2. 00 in the summer, so they can bear fruit in the full walk. Im only live, we finally had some decent rain yesterday we really needed it might as well. Yeah, the 1st proper raymond, since spring the see book sold is amounts to compassion off the dancing, of course, off to his studies and economics, a mans work for a bank for 20 years old. He is on happily today he is happy in his day to day content that his cough led him to farming and dancing but thats ok. You all know when my sister and i were a little our parents to close to lea, a pie. Yeah. For dance lessons equal it back, then we have to drive 10 kilometers to rehearsals. Im in the dancing has been an integral part of my life. Ever since that alpha style, the the phone that belongs to the generation of latvians, who still remember the last view of the past. The bolted country was part of the soviet union for over 50 years. Although the stone festival existed in those days too, some songs were found during the collapse of the soviet union. Millions of people across the 3 Baltic States demonstrate to peacefully for their independence. And they sang songs including those that had been found in the so called singing revolution. The 3 is the video will associate, and lot of people, freedom was a hard fight and got off with them use. There are many songs about it. They become a fixed part of my identity. Children will buckle them. I cant imagine myself without the song of the oldest to cook, the rupture causing you to select the socialist post is still visible in many places in rica until one year ago, including its towering symbol. The victory monuments for g is the sculpture, was revered, especially by the russian speaking population as becoming the ration of victory and the nazis. However, it was despised by many others and seen as a symbol of so if you talk to patients. When russia started the war against ukraine, it became a symbol of russian aggression against its neighbor. For many. Finally, last summer it disappeared too. Who did not . Its still present in peoples consciousness as is the solidarity of the lot, the young people with the ukrainians full months luck via has been taking in thousands of ukrainian refugees. Not all of them stay here. Many move on to west and european countries, and some return to ukraine. Moms family has also helped twice they have brought ukrainian refugees from keys here for a few months to women with the children. They arrive to you and your mother on the baltic sea by opponent and spend the rest, which is close to rica and where the farmers family lives lives. It also says we drove to the board house. The womens husbands drove their families to the border on the other side of the men and women and children and got into my car, you know, but the man couldnt cross then they stayed here in your model. I would always, 5th and z. Like, according to the latest hold, by a lot for Young Research institutes move in 80 percent of the population supports ukraines fight for freedom against russia. But as much as lot begins, condemn, hootons war. It hardly seems to have affected the frenzy relationship with the russian. People feel that i cannot divining that obviously the people they are not to blame for the war problem and clearly. So there are not rushes problem. Its the leadership out being caught from the civilians. Cant influence much at the moment. Its like the system fixed itself. This, im totally not though you say like the courage to stand up and Say Something like, and maybe its lucille. This is the stuff for us. Lot fans. It also took years to get this far and redeemed freedom with the singing revolution by like, and god to come might have said, there was this north take. Theyre is alina to says, she doesnt have a resentment to will, to the russian people for the war. The face of her old homeland russia does not lead how cold is it good for that stuff . Thing double. I always felt sorry for the country. Most of the country, not the state because im the i always likes those People Better than the state is your blogs. When i lived in russia, i was actively involved in the opposition protest vehicle up on me. At some point i realized it was hopeless. Yup. And youre unfortunately from, you know, both nothing changes at the state level. Yeah. Like when i understood that it made me want to move even more into line. Yeah. Yeah. The, to lots the west thinking, im bouncing on just holdings, but the foundation of lot to be an identity for one week. The song and Dance Festival has the country on tenterhooks. It begins with traditional parades through ricos, old town concerts by the best coral, and dawn scripts, chosen and advanced by a jury in the competitive selection and ends with the drums denali concepts in rica for the last few days of moms husband were hosting for this intensively the loan was nearly searched, the other men in the auditorium of his old university, angelica, where the traditional also have done this has been cultivated for generations by both students and graduates like on moms the know thought to be a be assessed of. I have other hobbies is what dance has been my companion since i was 5 or 6. It is good, my family supports my hobby. Human on both. My wife doesnt answer, but the children do of the whole family as outlined me so that i am to not only happy as a father, but these days also as a member of a master of singing and Dancing Community from latvia. Its the grand finale in a park on the outskirts of rica just before the joint performance on lena and all moms get to know each other in person. Right. Hello. Hello. The 1st time here . No, ive been coming since 1998. Ive been here many times to you to be a new every 5 years. We cant wait. Why and then its here, this beautiful concert. Now we want to share our joy with others. Its just a pity. It will all be over again. So quickly. Super criteria. Whats a good offer you build . You can immortalize an image on a photo you, you can burn music on a cd, but what you can never capture are these feelings off and they watch it. No norfolk stuff. The performance with over 30000 like minded souls playing too just as many enthusiastic listeners is truly one of a kind. Around 60000 people celebrate the homeland at a festival that has been declared and intangible, Cultural Heritage of humanity by you ness. They sing them to the early hours of the next day attend. 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