The festival offers special opportunities for expats to connect with the world music scene and the Hungarian community that is organised around it here. 

This year, the program will once again feature musical delicacies, different styles, musical roots and performance methods, as the best of the genre perform them today.

The world music series will kick off with a free outdoor cinema event on June 23 at 8 p.m., when the documentary "Still in the Heart," a joint work by György Szomjas and Béla Halmos, will be screened. The portrait film commemorates János Zerkula, the Gypsy prima of the Csángó from Gyimes, one of the last representatives of classical folk music.

This international concert series will begin on June 24th with the Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble, a band made up of Beninese and Finnish members.

The collaboration of musicians from two geographically and culturally distant countries results in vibrant, fun and danceable music. The band is a regular performer at major festivals, including the Montreal Jazz Festival, Sziget, and Womex.

On the evening of June 25, the Kerekes Band, which combines psychedelic melodies with Hungarian folk music, celebrates its 30th anniversary. Over the past three decades, the group has performed at all major Hungarian festivals and concert venues, and is regularly invited abroad.

The Kobuci dance house series started sixteen years ago, and the best bands of the Carpathian Basin perform every two weeks.

On June 26, Fanfara Complexa and Pál István Szalonna and Band will perform, and the following day, Besh o droM will give a concert.

The band, which combines Hungarian folk music with Balkan styles, has been entertaining audiences on a world-class level for over 25 years.

On June 28, Trio Mandili, a trio of young Georgian women, arrives from a remote village in the Caucasus.

The girls gained immense popularity online through social media, becoming world stars in a few weeks after recording their song Apareka on a phone. The video received millions of views within two weeks, and Trio Mandili is now touring the world.

Mihály Dresch, who is celebrating his 70th birthday, will be arriving at the closing concert of World Music Week with his String Quartet on June 29.

The Kossuth Prize-winning artist is a world-class representative of Hungarian jazz, an indispensable representative in the sense of music history, and his own special instrument, the fuhun, will once again perform in the Garden on Sunday evening.

Another event on the closing day is the concert of Szilvia Bognár, Bori Magyar and Ági Szalóki, which was brought to life by the common desire to once again experience the joy of singing Hungarian, Bulgarian, Greek, Spanish, Gypsy, Sephardic Jewish, Portuguese and Spanish melodies together.

Kobuci Garden in Budapest
1033 Budapest, Fő tér 1

 

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