Dziesmu Kamoliņš // Garland of Songs For Your Grammy® consideration
Contemporary Jazz Vision Rooted in Latvian Folk Tradition
Five Categories
BEST CONTEMPORARY FOLK ALBUM
DZIESMU KAMOLIŅŠ//GARLAND OF SONGS
LEARN MORE ABOUT DZIESMU KAMOLIŅŠ // GARLAND OF SONGS
BEST GLOBAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE
NORIET SAULE VAKARĀ’I FEAT. SAMIR LANGUS, NIZAR DAHMANI & LEO GENOVESE
BEST ARRANGEMENT, INSTRUMENTS & VOCALS
CAUR SIDRABA BIRZI GĀJU
BEST ARRANGEMENT, INSTRUMENTAL OR A CAPELLA
TUMŠA NAKTE, ZAĻA ZĀLE
BEST NEW ARTIST
ARTA JĒKABSONE
Latvian Recording Award “Zelta Mikrofons” – Nominee, Best Folk and World Music Album for Dziesmu Kamoliņš / Garland of Songs (2026)
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Music/Sound (2025)
Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards, ASCAP Foundation – Honorable Mention for the big band composition Kaķpēdiņas/Antennaria (2024)
Latvian Grand Music Award – New Artist of the Year 2022 (2023)
Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition – Third Prize (2021)
2021 – The Jazz Gallery Residency Commission Grant – Recipient (2021)
International Ella Fitzgerald Voice Competition – Third Prize (2019)
Latvian Radio Klasika 3 Annual Concert Award – Nominee (2019)
2017 – Mid-Atlantic Jazz Voice Competition – Second Prize (2017)
Montreux Shure Jazz Voice Competition, Switzerland – First Prize / Grand Prix (2016)
Latvian Recording Award “Zelta Mikrofons” – Nominated for Best Concert Recording and Best Debut with Electric Combo (2015)
PRESS
Arta continues to shine as one of jazz’s most expressive and boundary-pushing voices. —Neon Jazz, Joe Dimino
“Latvian-born vocalist, composer, and arranger Arta Jēkabsone channels her Baltic roots through a modern jazz and pop synergy on Dziesmu Kamoliņš, a memorable collection that reimagines traditional folk songs with striking originality and heartfelt intimacy.”— Obscure Sound, Mike Mineo
“From the very first notes, Jēkabsone’s voice anchors the listener — warm, pure, and full of quiet strength. She doesn’t perform these songs so much as embody them… There’s something transcendent about hearing her glide between Latvian lyrics and spontaneous melodic phrasing, bridging the sacred and the contemporary in a way that feels both reverent and daring.” — Odyssey Magazine, review bu IAIN JOHNSON
“Unfurling a magical, hypnotic aural universe, New York-based jazz vocalist and composer Arta Jēkabsone builds an aural experience that’s incredibly heartwarming and euphoric… Threading the fine line between folk and jazz sensibility, ‘Dziesmu Kamoliņš (Garland of Songs)’ packs eleven wondrous and elegant pieces… with a global appeal.” — Mesmerized, review by Gabriel Mazza
“She has now released a powerful example of ethno-jazz… This is a compelling example of contemporary global music, in which Latvia’s folk heritage, infused with influences from many other cultures, emerges in an especially unexpected and intriguing light.” — Music Magazine Saule, Kaspars Zaviļevskis