144 result(s) for folk in Events
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 ...
Subcarpați & Obadu, House of Music Budapest, 10 October
- 10 Oct 2025 7:30 PM
- contemporary
Subcarpați is one of the most popular contemporary Romanian bands, founded by Marius Alexe, also known as MC Bean, in 2010. It is a vibrant, constantly changing, large hip-hop-electronic-traditional music collective, which blends the old with the new, traditional folk music with the modern — continuously preserving and renewing.
They pair folk instruments (kaval, flutes, cimbalom) with live ...
Fennesz (AUT) I Raphael Roginski, House of Music Budapest, 3 October
- 3 Oct 2025 11:50 AM
- contemporary
Fennesz and Raphael Roginski at the House of Music! Two anti-guitar heroes, two unique uses of instruments, two solo concerts.
Austrian electronic music pioneer Fennesz returns with his new album Mosaic, which pushes the boundaries of guitar-based ambient and glitch symphonies.
He will be joined by Raphael Roginski from Poland, who blends Jewish and Eastern European musical traditions ...
Borbély – Dresch Quartet, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 1 October
- 1 Oct 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
“The band is a joint project of Mihály Borbély and Mihály Dresch, two of the greatest wind instrument players in Hungarian ethno-jazz, where they create a new quality that transcends usual formulas and genre definitions. Their shared musical world is sometimes melancholic, yet characterized by countless musical flavors and emotional richness, featuring elements of jazz as well as motifs from the ...
'The World of Rogues', National Dance Theatre Budapest, 14 September
- 14 Sep 2025 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Rogues and highwaymen are typical characters of Hungarian folk traditions. Folk songs, folk tales and ballads preserve the memories of our most famous highwaymen and they feature as a popular topic in folk art. They are often idealised as heroes in folk memory.
This is how “Hungarian Robin Hoods”, our legendary rogues were born: Jóska Sóbri, Imre Bogár, Márton Vidróczky, Bandi Angyal 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 ...
Subcarpați & Obadu, House of Music Budapest, 10 October
- 10 Oct 2025 7:30 PM
- contemporary
Subcarpați is one of the most popular contemporary Romanian bands, founded by Marius Alexe, also known as MC Bean, in 2010. It is a vibrant, constantly changing, large hip-hop-electronic-traditional music collective, which blends the old with the new, traditional folk music with the modern — continuously preserving and renewing.
They pair folk instruments (kaval, flutes, cimbalom) with live ...
Fennesz (AUT) I Raphael Roginski, House of Music Budapest, 3 October
- 3 Oct 2025 11:50 AM
- contemporary
Fennesz and Raphael Roginski at the House of Music! Two anti-guitar heroes, two unique uses of instruments, two solo concerts.
Austrian electronic music pioneer Fennesz returns with his new album Mosaic, which pushes the boundaries of guitar-based ambient and glitch symphonies.
He will be joined by Raphael Roginski from Poland, who blends Jewish and Eastern European musical traditions ...
Borbély – Dresch Quartet, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 1 October
- 1 Oct 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
“The band is a joint project of Mihály Borbély and Mihály Dresch, two of the greatest wind instrument players in Hungarian ethno-jazz, where they create a new quality that transcends usual formulas and genre definitions. Their shared musical world is sometimes melancholic, yet characterized by countless musical flavors and emotional richness, featuring elements of jazz as well as motifs from the ...
'The World of Rogues', National Dance Theatre Budapest, 14 September
- 14 Sep 2025 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Rogues and highwaymen are typical characters of Hungarian folk traditions. Folk songs, folk tales and ballads preserve the memories of our most famous highwaymen and they feature as a popular topic in folk art. They are often idealised as heroes in folk memory.
This is how “Hungarian Robin Hoods”, our legendary rogues were born: Jóska Sóbri, Imre Bogár, Márton Vidróczky, Bandi Angyal and, ...