Summer Sound is coming up…and I can’t help thinking of last year…

by Anna · Published July 5, 2012 · Updated June 23, 2014

This weekend in Liepaja, Latvia is the second Summer Sound festival. I was there last year.

While I’ve only been to Liepaja twice–once for the Baltic Beach Party and once for Summer Sound– my impression is that it feels a lot like New Orleans- a port city with a constant party.

Both times I’ve been to Liepaja, I’ve stayed at the Fontaine Hotel, which seems lovely overall, but decorated with a rather unique eye for what goes together. (It’s also one of the hotels in the world that gives you a feeling that you are in a certain place, rather than swimming around in a world dominated by corporate interests.)

Dude lives at the Fontaine hotel!

While I won’t be at the festival this weekend, you can catch acts like Ewert and The Two Dragons, whom I stood in the rain to hear play a set at Summer Sound last year. If you know me, you know that I don’t stand in the rain by choice very often!

Since the festival is right on the beach, some of the events are on grass and some are on sand. The beach at Liepaja has some of the nicest sand in the world!

Since I don’t enjoy standing outside in the rain, I didn’t have a fantastic time at Summer Sound last year. I can only hope the festival has better weather this year than it did last year!

Below are a selection of pictures from Summer Sound 2011.