Iconic Jack White to perform in Sigulda at the end of May
On May 30th, the summer concert season of Western artists will begin in the Sigulda Castle Ruins with the performance of iconic musician Jack White. The winner of 12 Grammys and other prestigious awards, songwriter, versatile musician, producer, actor and overall one of the most significant personalities in modern rock music of this century will give his only concert in the Baltic States this summer.
Latvian alternative rock band “Bēdu Brāļi” are the confirmed act to support Jack White.
The ticket sales throughout the Biļešu serviss network:
January 29th, from 10am pre-sale only for www.ltips.lv news subscribers
January 30th, the Public sale will begin at 10am
Growing up as the youngest in a large family on the outskirts of Detroit, Jack was fascinated by music as a child, learning to play instruments that his brothers abandoned. First came the drums, then the guitar. A passion for classic rock (Led Zeppelin, Doors, Pink Floyd) and blues determined the young musician’s future creative path.
First going through the usual experience of underground bands, later Jack founded the duo The White Stripes with his then wife Meg White. The minimalist band, in which Meg played drums and Jack played all the other instruments from guitars to keyboards and also sang, gained its first recognition with its third studio album “White Blood Cells” (2001). With the following – “Elephant” (2003), “Get Behind Me Satan” (2005) and “Icky Thump” (2007) – Jack White established himself as one of the brightest and most recognized personalities in 21st century rock music, especially in the indie and garage rock genres. Simple, even seemingly primitive compositions, arrangements and performance, which merge garage rock and blues influences, complemented by the couple’s mysterious public image and red, white and black design aesthetics, rapidly increased the group’s popularity among music connoisseurs. However, the composition Seven Nation Army made The White Stripes real stars. Over the years, it has become a chanted anthem for fans of almost every team sport. Many may not even know anything about The White Stripes, but every sports fan will recognize the exciting “O-oho-hoo” from the first seconds.
After The White Stripes, Jack White’s creative path has led through 2 other groups – The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather (both of which he was a co-founder) – until he started a solo career. As part of this, six studio albums have been released, of which critics especially emphasize the first 2 (“Blunderbuss” (2012) and “Lazaretto” (2014)) and so far the last (“No Name” (2024)).
As already mentioned, Jack White has received a total of 12 Grammy Awards in 8 different categories and 36 nominations for this award alone, Rolling Stone magazine has twice included him in the list of the world’s greatest guitarists, and at the end of 2025, Jack, along with Meg, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
He is also known for his extensive musical collaborations. For example, J. White produced the album “Van Lear Rose” by the famous country music singer Loretta Lynn, which received a Grammy. Or, together with Alicia Keys, he wrote and recorded the title track Another Way to Die for the Bond film “Quantum of Solace.”
Fans of analog sound will certainly appreciate the fact that Jack White is a proponent of this recording format, as well a strong advocate of the vinyls: “I love analog because of what it makes you do. Digital recording gives you all this freedom, all these options to change the sounds that you are putting down, and those are for the most part not good choices to have for an artist,” and “Mechanics are always going to provide inherent little flaws and tiny little specks and hisses that will add to the idea of something beautiful, something romantic. Perfection, making things perfectly in time and perfectly free of extraneous noise, is not something to aspire to! Why would anyone aspire to such a thing?”
Jack White also expresses a similar opinion regarding concerts, where he still does not have a strict set list: “Where for set you are doing by the book where you have the lasers and the pyro, all happens right at the chorus, to make the mistake would be deadly. But what we’re doing and playing live, I think those are beautiful things. And they can change the whole way that we swerve the songs. And now everyone in the rooms is in the whole new thing we never knew was going to happen 10 seconds ago.”
Consequently, each performance of this eccentric talent turns into a unique, unpredictable experience even for him, and for that reason alone it is worth visiting.
