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Positivus Festival in Riga
Positivus is one of the best-known large-scale music festivals in the Baltic states, running across a multi-day summer weekend with international and Latvian acts spanning pop, rock, and electronic music on multiple stages. Although this entry is filed under a Riga-associated slug, the festival has historically been staged near Salacgriva on Latvia's northern coast rather than in the capital itself, and its venue has shifted between locations over its history.
Positivus has, over its run, become shorthand across the Baltic states for a certain kind of festival experience: multiple stages, a lineup mixing major international touring names with Latvia's own pop, rock, and electronic scene, and a multi-day format built around camping as much as concerts.