Sarah Neufeld, Richard Reed Parry and Rebecca Foon have been crossing creative paths for decades. The three well-known Montreal musicians have founded a chamber music trio, and the Liepāja Art Forum 2026 will be an opportunity to experience their first performance in Latvia.

Richard Reed Parry and violinist Sarah Neufeld are best known to audiences as members, authors and performers in the Grammy-winning rock band Arcade Fire. They both also play in Bell Orchestre. Rebecca Foon is recognized by many as one of the loudest indie voices of Montreal – she is the co-founder of the renowned chamber post-rock ensemble Esmerine, member of Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, Set Fire to Flames, and several other collectives. Latvian audiences are also familiar with her solo project, Saltland. Together, the trio represent one of the most fascinating music environments of the last decades, the so-called Montreal scene, that inspires many with the merging and breaking of boundaries between popular, serious and untamed music, stadium scales and dark, intimate underground clubs.

An hour before the concert, we invite you to meet with “First Sounds” musicians Sarah Noifeld, Rebecca Foon, and Richard Reed Perry in a pre-concert discussion.