The most famous world
folk music band from Latvia
Iļģi celebrated their 31st anniversary on April 21, 2012. The group started at the Cultural Centre of Iļģuciems, Rīga, Latvia in 1981 where
Ilga Reizniece, a professional violinist, founded an ensemble of Latvian folk music. She had just graduated from the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music and was an active member of two prominent folk music ensembles
Bizīteri and
Skandinieki of the time. At the beginning Iļģi was an ensemble of authentic Latvian folk music. They visited remote parts of Latvia in search for unrecorded folk songs…
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