146 result(s) for folk in Events
Lucid Bloom, A38 Ship Budapest 12 March
- 12 Mar 2026 8:30 AM
- contemporary
Lucid Bloom. Psychedelic folk spring rite. Welcome spring with the Óperentzia!
Mupa Film Club: Emir Kusturica - Life Is a Miracle, Palace of Arts, 9 February
- 9 Feb 2026 6:30 PM
- contemporary
In 2024, Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra returned to perform at Müpa Budapest. The night was one big party. Was it what we would call folk punk? Balkan rollicking?
Categories are meaningless. Kusturica is very consistent in his use of music in his films. (Sometimes the songs even become hits.) In this case, he wrote them himself.
The story takes place in the early ’90s, during ...
Chinese New Year Festival, Chinatown Budapest, 7 - 8 February
- 7 Feb 2026 10:00 AM
- community
Three Chinese cultural delegations to visit Budapest, bringing many new entertainment and handicraft programs.
Two professional chefs arriving from the city of Chengdu to cook authentic Sichuan street foods for the Festival guests, including Sichuan-style noodle, chicken, mochi, and sweet soup.
Fire-spitting, “kungfu”long spout teapot, and other new folk entertainments to be shown for the ...
Young Talents' Free Concert, Palace of Arts Budapest, 6 January
- 6 Jan 2026 5:00 PM
- contemporary
Müpa Budapest isn't just for evening shows if you're hunting great live music. Afternoons bring a mix of genres right in the building.
Young artists play pop, jazz, and folk at Banner Square every Tuesday, while classical performances fill the Glass Hall on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Through the weekly Colour Concerts series, Liszt Academy students showcase their skills, talent, and ...
Hungarian State Folk Ensemble: Wonderful Nativity, National Concert Hall Budapest, 23 December
- 23 Dec 2025 4:00 PM
- contemporary
Evoking the excitement of anticipation and waltzing with angels in the bright starlight, to playfully immerse yourself in the Christmas wonderland.
The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble’s nativity programme counts down to the night of the birth of Jesus, with scenes that are sometimes comic and other times heart-warming.
The joyful period comes to life in this marvellous world of games, ...
Hungarian Christmas, Opera House, 17 & 18 December
- 17 Dec 2025 3:00 PM
- classical
Jenő Ádám, a student of Kodály’s and perhaps his greatest contemporary admirer, was also the one who structured and developed his pedagogical method: his Christmas one-act was the first work at the Opera House, which placed the pure Hungarian folk song on the same stage as the works of the great figures of classical music history.
On Christmas 1931, Hungarian Christmas premiered with the ...
Shantel & Bucovina Club Soundsystem, A38 Ship Budapest, 11 December
- 11 Dec 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
After pioneering the concept of Balkan clubbing with his now-legendary Bucovina Club parties and albums, Shantel moves on to the next level and releases Disko Partizani! (his first solo album in seven years), which lays the foundations for an innovative new brand of pop music.
With their organic mix of South-European & Balkan music and club-friendly electronics, Shantel's Bucovina Club nights ...
Gábor Csalog Sundays, Budapest Music Center
- 23 Nov 2025 6:00 PM
- contemporary
The two most significant song writers of classical music engage in dialogue on this evening, two composers who were socialized in Vienna and shaped by the intellectual milieu of the Habsburg imperial city: Gustav Mahler and Franz Schubert.
Mahler, who was an admirer of Schubert, spent many years studying the Des Knaben Wunderhorn, a collection of folk song lyrics published in 1805, during ...
Sam Lee, House of Music Budapest, 14 November
- 14 Nov 2025 7:30 PM
- contemporary
Singer-songwriter, folk performer, folk song collector, conservationist, birdwatcher Sam Lee gave an essential concert at the House of Music 2022, where he was joined on stage by guitarist Bernard Butler, founder of Suede.
Lee has since made a new album, songdreaming, released in 2024, which Butler happened to produce. Sam Lee now returns to the House of Music Concert Hall - if you were here ...
Lucid Bloom, A38 Ship Budapest 12 March
- 12 Mar 2026 8:30 AM
- contemporary
Lucid Bloom. Psychedelic folk spring rite. Welcome spring with the Óperentzia!
Mupa Film Club: Emir Kusturica - Life Is a Miracle, Palace of Arts, 9 February
- 9 Feb 2026 6:30 PM
- contemporary
In 2024, Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra returned to perform at Müpa Budapest. The night was one big party. Was it what we would call folk punk? Balkan rollicking?
Categories are meaningless. Kusturica is very consistent in his use of music in his films. (Sometimes the songs even become hits.) In this case, he wrote them himself.
The story takes place in the early ’90s, during ...
Chinese New Year Festival, Chinatown Budapest, 7 - 8 February
- 7 Feb 2026 10:00 AM
- community
Three Chinese cultural delegations to visit Budapest, bringing many new entertainment and handicraft programs.
Two professional chefs arriving from the city of Chengdu to cook authentic Sichuan street foods for the Festival guests, including Sichuan-style noodle, chicken, mochi, and sweet soup.
Fire-spitting, “kungfu”long spout teapot, and other new folk entertainments to be shown for the ...
Young Talents' Free Concert, Palace of Arts Budapest, 6 January
- 6 Jan 2026 5:00 PM
- contemporary
Müpa Budapest isn't just for evening shows if you're hunting great live music. Afternoons bring a mix of genres right in the building.
Young artists play pop, jazz, and folk at Banner Square every Tuesday, while classical performances fill the Glass Hall on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Through the weekly Colour Concerts series, Liszt Academy students showcase their skills, talent, and ...
Hungarian State Folk Ensemble: Wonderful Nativity, National Concert Hall Budapest, 23 December
- 23 Dec 2025 4:00 PM
- contemporary
Evoking the excitement of anticipation and waltzing with angels in the bright starlight, to playfully immerse yourself in the Christmas wonderland.
The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble’s nativity programme counts down to the night of the birth of Jesus, with scenes that are sometimes comic and other times heart-warming.
The joyful period comes to life in this marvellous world of games, ...
Hungarian Christmas, Opera House, 17 & 18 December
- 17 Dec 2025 3:00 PM
- classical
Jenő Ádám, a student of Kodály’s and perhaps his greatest contemporary admirer, was also the one who structured and developed his pedagogical method: his Christmas one-act was the first work at the Opera House, which placed the pure Hungarian folk song on the same stage as the works of the great figures of classical music history.
On Christmas 1931, Hungarian Christmas premiered with the ...
Shantel & Bucovina Club Soundsystem, A38 Ship Budapest, 11 December
- 11 Dec 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
After pioneering the concept of Balkan clubbing with his now-legendary Bucovina Club parties and albums, Shantel moves on to the next level and releases Disko Partizani! (his first solo album in seven years), which lays the foundations for an innovative new brand of pop music.
With their organic mix of South-European & Balkan music and club-friendly electronics, Shantel's Bucovina Club nights ...
Gábor Csalog Sundays, Budapest Music Center
- 23 Nov 2025 6:00 PM
- contemporary
The two most significant song writers of classical music engage in dialogue on this evening, two composers who were socialized in Vienna and shaped by the intellectual milieu of the Habsburg imperial city: Gustav Mahler and Franz Schubert.
Mahler, who was an admirer of Schubert, spent many years studying the Des Knaben Wunderhorn, a collection of folk song lyrics published in 1805, during ...
Sam Lee, House of Music Budapest, 14 November
- 14 Nov 2025 7:30 PM
- contemporary
Singer-songwriter, folk performer, folk song collector, conservationist, birdwatcher Sam Lee gave an essential concert at the House of Music 2022, where he was joined on stage by guitarist Bernard Butler, founder of Suede.
Lee has since made a new album, songdreaming, released in 2024, which Butler happened to produce. Sam Lee now returns to the House of Music Concert Hall - if you were here ...