JUUK // Christmas Concert

Juuk, with a Latvian sense of cheerfulness and humor, weaves influences from American and European folk music (including Latvian), rock, and early music into their songs. They say about themselves:

“We try not to sing nonsense, so alongside original lyrics we often perform established poetry and folklore, but our main driving force is storytelling - in songs, melodies, and conversations with the audience at concerts.

The band Juuk not only creates original music, but has also put together a special Christmas concert. Juuk's Christmas program offers a festive and entertaining concert featuring Christmas songs from different historical periods and nations, as well as compositions by Juuk members themselves that suit the winter solstice season. Stylistically, the program includes folk rock arrangements: from a simple singer-songwriter sound to orchestral or rock music arrangements. The music is complemented by stories, legends, revelations, jokes, and interesting facts about the pieces in the repertoire - the chance to discover them is equally appealing to listeners and to the musicians themselves.

The concert will appeal to everyone who inwardly shudders at the sound of commercial shopping mall Christmas playlists, yet does not give up on a healthy festive sentiment.