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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 ...
'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 ...
Festive Jam Session, Palace Of Arts Budapest, 20 August
- 17 Aug 2015 1:56 AM
- community & culture
On every 20 August since it opened, Müpa has toasted both the foundation of the Hungarian state and the start of the new season with jazz music. Its indoor and outdoor spaces traditionally resound with the styles of jazz that remain popular with every age group, and there will be no exception this year.
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.
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 ...
Xpat Opinion: Prison Inmates In Hungary To Get Mobile Phones
- 13 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- tech
A liberal columnist welcomes the government’s decision to buy mobile phones for prison inmates, and calls for more spending on detainees. A conservative pundit, on the other hand, thinks that the money should have been spent on improving education possibilities for inmates.
110,000 Refugees Registered In Hungary This Year
- 12 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A total of 110,000 refugees have been registered in Hungary this year, Immigration and Citizenship Office head Zsuzsanna Végh announced yesterday on Kossuth Rádió. At present there are over 4,000 people at refugee stations, twice as many as there are places, but everybody receives adequate accommodation. She said it is necessary to have more temporary stations, such as the new centre about to be ...
Hungarian Pavilion At Milan Expo Attracts Nearly A Million Visitors
- 12 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- property
The Hungarian pavilion at the Milan World Expo attracted nearly a million visitors in its first three months, the government commissioner in charge of the pavilion said. “By half time”, the expo was visited by more than 10 million people and one-tenth of them also saw the Hungarian pavilion, Géza Szőcs said.
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 ...
'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 ...
Festive Jam Session, Palace Of Arts Budapest, 20 August
- 17 Aug 2015 1:56 AM
- community & culture
On every 20 August since it opened, Müpa has toasted both the foundation of the Hungarian state and the start of the new season with jazz music. Its indoor and outdoor spaces traditionally resound with the styles of jazz that remain popular with every age group, and there will be no exception this year.
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.
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 ...
Xpat Opinion: Prison Inmates In Hungary To Get Mobile Phones
- 13 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- tech
A liberal columnist welcomes the government’s decision to buy mobile phones for prison inmates, and calls for more spending on detainees. A conservative pundit, on the other hand, thinks that the money should have been spent on improving education possibilities for inmates.
110,000 Refugees Registered In Hungary This Year
- 12 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A total of 110,000 refugees have been registered in Hungary this year, Immigration and Citizenship Office head Zsuzsanna Végh announced yesterday on Kossuth Rádió. At present there are over 4,000 people at refugee stations, twice as many as there are places, but everybody receives adequate accommodation. She said it is necessary to have more temporary stations, such as the new centre about to be ...
Hungarian Pavilion At Milan Expo Attracts Nearly A Million Visitors
- 12 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- property
The Hungarian pavilion at the Milan World Expo attracted nearly a million visitors in its first three months, the government commissioner in charge of the pavilion said. “By half time”, the expo was visited by more than 10 million people and one-tenth of them also saw the Hungarian pavilion, Géza Szőcs said.