Featuring: Szilvi Bognár – voice, Antal Zalai – violin, József Balog – piano, Buda Folk Band, Vujicsics Band, Söndörgő, the Orchestra and Dance Troupe of Ifjú Szívek Dance Theatre, Bratislava (artistic director: Dusán Hégli)
Members of Buda Folk Band: Anna “Tücsi” Márczi – voice, Andor Maruzsenszki – violin, Márton Éri – viola, Sándor “Sündi” Csoóri – contrabass, tambura, voice, Soma Salamon – accordion, recorder, Gergő Szabó Csobán – double bass, Ferenc Zimber – cimbalom
Members of Vujicsics Band: Áron Eredics – tambura samica, prime tambura, viola tambura, voice, derbuka, Balázs Vizeli – violin, Ferenc Szendrődi – prime tambura, karaduzen, Gábor Eredics – bass prime tambura, accordion, voice, litarka, Kálmán Eredics – double bass, tarabuka, tapan, voice, Miroszláv Brczán – cello tambura, voice
Members of Söndörgő: Attila Buzás – double bass tambura, cello tambura, tapan, voice, Áron Eredics – prime tambura, tambura samica, voice, derbuka, Benjamin Eredics – viola tambura, voice, trumpet, Salamon Eredics – recorder, accordion, bass prime tambura, Dávid Eredics– prime tambura, bass prime tambura, saxophone, clarinet, tárogató
Artistic leader: Endre Liber
As a consequence, the theme of the first Budapest Ritmo is encounter, chance meetings that often seem improbable and surprising: the joint performance of Armenian and Turkish, French and Japanese, Israeli and Iranian, Roma and Sami performers. New energies are certain to come into being, both on the stage and in the auditorium, with several of recent years’ greatest stars of world music playing alongside the Hungarian and East European artists. The festival also offers a taste of the programme of WOMEX, the world music expo held this year in Spain: six of the bands to be featured there will captivate audiences and cause them to dance in Budapest a mere week before the event.
On 13 October, the opening concert of Budapest Ritmo looks at the afterlife of Béla Bartók’s collection of Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian and Slovak folk songs. The gala concert will be an homage to Béla Bartók the collector and student of folk music, who is a point of reference for world music. Bartók’s work is a fantastic example of the encounter between Eastern Europe and the world, as the collecting composer worked in almost all the countries of the region, as well as in Turkey and North Africa (Algeria).
An event jointly organized with Hangvető.