We will traditionally celebrate Ogre City’s birthday with a beautiful concert ❤️
On the main stage of the Ogre District Culture Centre will perform
AUĻI drum and bagpipe group
RĪGA orchestra
flute solo by ANDIS KLUČNIEKS
conductor VALDIS BUTĀNS
A dynamic, powerful, and musically diverse concert with a previously unheard synergy of sound, weaving together the might of the RĪGA orchestra’s wind instruments with the majestic power of AUĻI’s bagpipes and drums. In search of new and unusual forms of musical expression, the works created especially for this concert (composer - Mārtiņš Miļevskis, percussionist of the AUĻI group and the RĪGA orchestra) blend elements of symphonic, contemporary, jazz, and folk music with powerful rhythmic motifs.
It is music in which the richness of cultures meets the diversity of instruments, the grandeur of orchestral sound meets the primal power of bagpipes and drums - from lyrical harmonies to grand, epic, and energy-filled soundscapes.
The album jointly released by AUĻI and the RĪGA orchestra, whose music will be heard at the concert, was nominated in 2025 for the Golden Microphone award as the best cross-genre music album, and the concert that once sounded by the Freedom Monument, marking the 35th anniversary of the Baltic Way action, received the White Sparrow award in the category of Collaboration of the Year.
Residents of the Ogre District with an Ogre resident card or app code receive a special holiday discount on the ticket price.
Ticket price: 30 euros, 25 euros with an Ogre resident card/app.
The event will be filmed and photographed.
The material obtained will be used for publicity purposes.
