In addition to the Erdőfű Band, Söndörgő and the Béla Szerényi and Sons Hurdy-Gurdy Band, we will also get to hear the Palatka Gypsy Band and, hailing from Ireland, Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny, along with many other guests. We can look forward to a true folk music festival.
As Márta Sebestyén sums up the line-up for the evening: "The concept is to showcase a generation that grew up during the decades after I did and which managed to grow ‘addicted' to folk music in the same way I did when Béla Halmos and Feri Sebő embraced me. [...] I asked my colleagues' talented teenage musician children - along with some of my own contemporaries - to come and make music with me.” From Erdőfű, the obvious point of connection is Péter Éri's two children, with whom she will perform a block of Hungarian folk music. The songstress has likewise known the members of Söndörgő since they were born, and will do some Greek, Bulgarian and Serbian tunes with them. But there will be plenty of everything else that Márta Sebestyén remains famous for too, including early music with Judit Andrejszki and viola da gamba player Zsolt Szabó and rock opera excerpts with organist Szabolcs Szamosi. Alongside the Saint Ephraim Male Choir, as another example, she will perform an arrangement of music by Tamás Cseh, and there will also be an exciting world music and dance production with dancer Dóra Bittner Meenakshi, with the members of the Palatka Gypsy Band and her Irish friends Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny also coming for the show. It will be gala of the very best.
vocals
Márta Sebestyén
Saint Ephraim Male Choir
dance
Dóra Bittner Meenakshi
Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny
Erdőfű Band:
violin: Andor Maruzsenszki
violin, vocals: Ádám Kiss-Balbinat
viola, kontra: Márton Éri
double bass, gardon: Katalin Éri
cimbalom: Ferenc Zimber
Söndörgő:
prime tambura, cello tambura, darbuka, tapan: Áron Eredics
viola tambura, trumpet, vocals: Benjamin Eredics
prime tambura, alto bass prime tambura, kaval, clarinet, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone: Dávid Eredics
accordion, recorder, bass prime tambura, cello tambura, hulusi: Salamon Eredics
double bass, tapan: Ábel Dénes
Béla Szerényi and Sons Hurdy-Gurdy Band:
vocals: Judit Andrejszki
viola da gamba: Zsolt Szabó
organ: Szabolcs Szamosi
Palatka Gypsy Band:
violin, viola: Martin ‘Florin' Codoba
violin, viola: Martin ‘Florin' Codoba Jr
viola: Ignat Marius Codoba
double bass: Karsa Mezei
Presented by: Müpa Budapest
