35 result(s) for folk music in Events
Ghetto Birds, Opus Jazz Club, 9 June
- 9 Jun 2026 8:00 PM
- contemporary
Four adventurers for whom being on the road – both physically and mentally – is a natural state. Four musicians who constantly push the boundaries of what their instruments can offer. The recently founded Ghetto Birds is the meeting of four individuals who transcend social and genre-based frameworks by creating an artistic community, soaring with the songs and freedom of birds.
Mahan Mirarab ...
Pentecost Heritage Festival, Szentendre Skanzen, 24 – 25 May
- 24 May 2026 10:00 AM
- community
The Pentecost Heritage Festival is an annual cultural event held in Szentendre, Hungary, at the Szentendre Open-Air Ethnographic Museum.
Celebrated over the Pentecost weekend, it showcases Hungarian folk traditions, crafts, music, and rural heritage. The festival highlights the living legacy of national culture and serves as a major gathering for ethnographic communities and families.
Ballet Company of Győr & State Folk Ensemble, National Concert Hall, 8 April
- 8 Apr 2026 7:30 PM
- contemporary
Over the past few years, the compelling multi-arts productions of the Pure Source series have looked at the music Béla Bartók collected in Turkey, the connections between folk and baroque music, and Bartók’s influence on jazz.
These were artistic demonstrations of how Bartók’s collection of folk music has been critical for the work that subsequent generations have carried out for the ...
State Folk Ensemble: Hungarian Rhapsody, Hungarian Heritage House, 15 March
- 15 Mar 2026 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Rhapsody as a genre is characterized by caprice and the passionate undulation of emotion, thoughts, and the freedom of expression. Hungarian Rhapsody incorporates all of the peculiarities of the genre, relying on tradition, and drawing inspiration from it, to create a special and unique dance rhapsody.
The colourful diversity of the Hungarian peasant traditions appear in dynamically ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ghetto Birds, Opus Jazz Club, 9 June
- 9 Jun 2026 8:00 PM
- contemporary
Four adventurers for whom being on the road – both physically and mentally – is a natural state. Four musicians who constantly push the boundaries of what their instruments can offer. The recently founded Ghetto Birds is the meeting of four individuals who transcend social and genre-based frameworks by creating an artistic community, soaring with the songs and freedom of birds.
Mahan Mirarab ...
Pentecost Heritage Festival, Szentendre Skanzen, 24 – 25 May
- 24 May 2026 10:00 AM
- community
The Pentecost Heritage Festival is an annual cultural event held in Szentendre, Hungary, at the Szentendre Open-Air Ethnographic Museum.
Celebrated over the Pentecost weekend, it showcases Hungarian folk traditions, crafts, music, and rural heritage. The festival highlights the living legacy of national culture and serves as a major gathering for ethnographic communities and families.
Ballet Company of Győr & State Folk Ensemble, National Concert Hall, 8 April
- 8 Apr 2026 7:30 PM
- contemporary
Over the past few years, the compelling multi-arts productions of the Pure Source series have looked at the music Béla Bartók collected in Turkey, the connections between folk and baroque music, and Bartók’s influence on jazz.
These were artistic demonstrations of how Bartók’s collection of folk music has been critical for the work that subsequent generations have carried out for the ...
State Folk Ensemble: Hungarian Rhapsody, Hungarian Heritage House, 15 March
- 15 Mar 2026 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Rhapsody as a genre is characterized by caprice and the passionate undulation of emotion, thoughts, and the freedom of expression. Hungarian Rhapsody incorporates all of the peculiarities of the genre, relying on tradition, and drawing inspiration from it, to create a special and unique dance rhapsody.
The colourful diversity of the Hungarian peasant traditions appear in dynamically ...
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 ...
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 ...