Sasha Lurje

It is not every day that music from the Baltic borderlands finds its way into the green folds of mid-Wales. But this May, that is exactly what is happening — and we could not be more delighted to share it with you. Black Rooster Kapelye is heading west for two special events: first a concert and workshops at The Lost Arc in Rhayader on 27 May, then onward to Fire in the Mountain — a small, beloved folk festival on an ancient farm nestled between the Cambrian Mountains and the coast of...

Black Rooster Kapelye on the road through Gelsenkirchen & Fürth — and what happened when the music met the people. There is something particular that happens when a Latvian-Jewish repertoire, songs that survived war and displacement and the long silences of the 20th century, finds its way into a smoky bar at midnight and a packed concert hall on a Saturday night alike. It happened again this March. We came to Germany with Black Rooster Kapelye carrying music from Latvia, Lithuania, and the...

Our album "Vos Mir Zaynen" has been nominated for the Zelta Mikrofons, the Annual Latvian Music Recording Awards, and is featured among...