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Seven Meadows’ Land Festival, Until 23 August, Őrség, Hungary
- 17 Aug 2015 9:04 AM
- community & culture
For the 14th year in a row the Seven Meadows’ Land Festival will take place in the Őrség in southwestern Hungary. The nine-day festival is characterized by 'traditional art and open hearts'. There will be concerts every day by traditional Hungarian musicians and other famous bands like Európa Kiadó, Ripoff Raskolnikov, Müller Péter Sziámi AndFriends, Ferenczi György and the Rackajam and Makám. ...
MAV Symphony Orchestra @ Budapest Zoo, 21 August
- 17 Aug 2015 9:02 AM
- community & culture
The MAV Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1945 by the Hungarian State Railways. Shortly after the Second World War, it established its name carrying a series of great concerts to the destroyed towns all over the country. As time passed, the orchestra developed a wide-ranging repertoire from baroque to contemporary music, and is currently ranked among the best professional ensembles in Hungary. On ...
Pussy Riot Answers Questions On Activism At Sziget Festival Budapest
- 17 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- entertainment
Two members of Moscow-based punkactivist protest group Pussy Riot took questions from the audience during a session held at Budapest’s Sziget Festival on Friday. “You go mad if you constantly live in fear,” members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, known for their campaign against Russian President Vladimir Putin, said at the event. They said they fought with art as well as organising ...
'Festival Of Folk Arts', Castle District, On Until 23 August
- 17 Aug 2015 2:04 AM
- community & culture
Press release: This year the cream of the 'Hungarian masters and craftsmen' scene will move in to the Buda Castle for the 29th time. At this Festival of Folk Arts 2015 between the 20th and 23rd of August, for four days the focus will be on the life of shepherds. The main goal of the festival has remained the same for nearly three decades: to present very rare but still active crafts that exist ...
Hungarian Crafts Exhibition, Várkert Bazár Budapest, 20 August
- 17 Aug 2015 1:55 AM
- community & culture
Simultaneously with the Festival of Folk Arts, on the 20th of August an exhibition will open up for the publich in the Várkert Bazár’s Testőrpalota. Those, who have tickets for the festival will receive 15% off of the ticket to see the exhibition, otherwise until the 22nd of November the following will apply.
Bad Religion (USA) + Mad Caddies (USA), Budapest Park, 18 August
- 15 Aug 2015 10:00 AM
- entertainment
Bad Religion is a punk rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1980. The band makes extensive use of soaring 3-part vocal harmonies (which they refer to in their album liner notes as the "oozin' aahs"), guitar solos and lyrics that often contain religious and political commentary.
Diplomats Discuss Corruption Issues At Sziget Festival Budapest
- 14 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Diplomats of several western countries noted the grave social and economic consequences of corruption at a press conference held at the Sziget Festival. Senior embassy staff of France, the Netherlands and Great Britain discussed the importance of fighting corruption at a press conference organised by Transparency International Hungary.
Foals (UK), Sziget Budapest, 13 August 7.30pm
- 13 Aug 2015 9:04 AM
- entertainment
2013 was the year that Foals broke through the barriers. Relentless touring saw Foals play 155 shows across the world and travelling 135,110 miles, appearing high up the bill at festivals around the world and playing their first ever UK festival headline slot (Latitude), it’s no surprise then, thatBritish media coined Foals as one of the hardest working acts of the year.
Goran Bregovic @ Sziget Budapest, 15 August 9.15 pm
- 13 Aug 2015 9:02 AM
- entertainment
Roots in the Balkans where he stems from, head in the 21st Century which he fully inhabits, Goran Bregovic's music marries sounds of a gypsy brass band with traditional Bulgarian polyphonies, those of an electric guitar and traditional percussion with a curious rock accent…. all against a background of a bedevilled string orchestra and deep sonorities of a male choir, creating music that our soul ...
Seven Meadows’ Land Festival, Until 23 August, Őrség, Hungary
- 17 Aug 2015 9:04 AM
- community & culture
For the 14th year in a row the Seven Meadows’ Land Festival will take place in the Őrség in southwestern Hungary. The nine-day festival is characterized by 'traditional art and open hearts'. There will be concerts every day by traditional Hungarian musicians and other famous bands like Európa Kiadó, Ripoff Raskolnikov, Müller Péter Sziámi AndFriends, Ferenczi György and the Rackajam and Makám. ...
MAV Symphony Orchestra @ Budapest Zoo, 21 August
- 17 Aug 2015 9:02 AM
- community & culture
The MAV Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1945 by the Hungarian State Railways. Shortly after the Second World War, it established its name carrying a series of great concerts to the destroyed towns all over the country. As time passed, the orchestra developed a wide-ranging repertoire from baroque to contemporary music, and is currently ranked among the best professional ensembles in Hungary. On ...
Pussy Riot Answers Questions On Activism At Sziget Festival Budapest
- 17 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- entertainment
Two members of Moscow-based punkactivist protest group Pussy Riot took questions from the audience during a session held at Budapest’s Sziget Festival on Friday. “You go mad if you constantly live in fear,” members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, known for their campaign against Russian President Vladimir Putin, said at the event. They said they fought with art as well as organising ...
'Festival Of Folk Arts', Castle District, On Until 23 August
- 17 Aug 2015 2:04 AM
- community & culture
Press release: This year the cream of the 'Hungarian masters and craftsmen' scene will move in to the Buda Castle for the 29th time. At this Festival of Folk Arts 2015 between the 20th and 23rd of August, for four days the focus will be on the life of shepherds. The main goal of the festival has remained the same for nearly three decades: to present very rare but still active crafts that exist ...
Hungarian Crafts Exhibition, Várkert Bazár Budapest, 20 August
- 17 Aug 2015 1:55 AM
- community & culture
Simultaneously with the Festival of Folk Arts, on the 20th of August an exhibition will open up for the publich in the Várkert Bazár’s Testőrpalota. Those, who have tickets for the festival will receive 15% off of the ticket to see the exhibition, otherwise until the 22nd of November the following will apply.
Bad Religion (USA) + Mad Caddies (USA), Budapest Park, 18 August
- 15 Aug 2015 10:00 AM
- entertainment
Bad Religion is a punk rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1980. The band makes extensive use of soaring 3-part vocal harmonies (which they refer to in their album liner notes as the "oozin' aahs"), guitar solos and lyrics that often contain religious and political commentary.
Diplomats Discuss Corruption Issues At Sziget Festival Budapest
- 14 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Diplomats of several western countries noted the grave social and economic consequences of corruption at a press conference held at the Sziget Festival. Senior embassy staff of France, the Netherlands and Great Britain discussed the importance of fighting corruption at a press conference organised by Transparency International Hungary.
Foals (UK), Sziget Budapest, 13 August 7.30pm
- 13 Aug 2015 9:04 AM
- entertainment
2013 was the year that Foals broke through the barriers. Relentless touring saw Foals play 155 shows across the world and travelling 135,110 miles, appearing high up the bill at festivals around the world and playing their first ever UK festival headline slot (Latitude), it’s no surprise then, thatBritish media coined Foals as one of the hardest working acts of the year.
Goran Bregovic @ Sziget Budapest, 15 August 9.15 pm
- 13 Aug 2015 9:02 AM
- entertainment
Roots in the Balkans where he stems from, head in the 21st Century which he fully inhabits, Goran Bregovic's music marries sounds of a gypsy brass band with traditional Bulgarian polyphonies, those of an electric guitar and traditional percussion with a curious rock accent…. all against a background of a bedevilled string orchestra and deep sonorities of a male choir, creating music that our soul ...