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17 Sep

A 100% Beatles Experience from Liverpool @ Budapest – Be a “Day Tripper” – 2019

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First edition of the International Beatles fest downtown Budapest in Hungary devoted to the Fab Four!

Saturday – October, 5. Analog Music Hall – 2 p.m.  – 10 p.m.  – District, XI., 8. Kondorfa Str.

Sunday –  October 6. Hard Rock Cafe – 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. – District V., 3-5. Deák Ferenc Str.

The format of the festival is designed to create a vibrant, fun experience by offering top entertainment

Alongside THE BLAKCBIRDS, we hear the world’s premier John Lennon entertainer, as well as domestic Beatles fan stars like Petruska, Zoltán Czutor, István Mikó or drummer András Márton.

One of the world’s top 5 Beatles Tribute bands, is celebrating their 15 anniversary. THE BLACKBIRDS  band was brought under the roof by the Hungarian Beatles Museum on the Egri Road in the City of Eger. THE BLACKBIRDS was the first Hungarian band to join the Beatles Festival in Liverpool which open the gates for Hungarian bands. Since then, they’ve traveled around the world and made it to almost all Beatles festivals.

They have toured in Liverpool five times already. Now they wish the to bring the atmosphere of these festivals to the Hungarian audience, so for the time being do not have to travel to Liverpool to see a world-class Beatles festival.

Sergey Radchenko – Ukraine – He is an ambassador to the Beatles Story Museum in Liverpool, and the patron of the Beatles Weekend in Budapest. Arriving to Budapest  from Liverpool the designer for John Lennon’s iconic cap – Ms.Helen Anderson. Ms. Anderson is the creator of the iconic “Lennon cap.” She went to the Liverpool College of Art with John and Cynthia (Lennon’s first wife). Helen Anderson became a successful fashion designer in the ’60s, and John Lennon began wearing genuine leather hats she designed in 1964, among others in ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ movie. To higher lighten the program of the festival – the world number one John Lennon rapporteur from Chicago – Jay Goeppner  will join the stage with The Blackbird.

Naturally, the Hungarian Beatles celebrity fans wouldn’t  miss this chance to be present, therefore „Come Together”  with the winner of the Hungarian Beatles Talent who will also have the opportunity to perform on stage. The festival’s other big super concert namely Abbey Road 50, which will feature a concert-like presentation of this year’s 50-year-old album will be heard  by The BlackBirds with Iván Vitáris from (Iván & The Parazol). 

During the Beatles Weekend Festival having a full-day Beatles Marketplace with contemporary records, rarities. And if it weren’t enough to celebrate the Beatles – Band of the 20th Century, the shop of the Hungarian Beatles Museum – from Egri Road is coming to Budapest full of original Beatles souvenirs.  The Vintage ’52 Sound Service and VOX will be holding an exhibition with rare and new amplifiers and musical instruments.

Those who are curious of having to taste of The Beatles yummies will have a chance to taste plenty food by Sgt. Pepper’s Cafe and Bar. The place is located next to Margaret Island, at 4. Jászai Mari Square. The Hungarian Beatles fan base, opened two years ago in Budapest. Beatles songs fill the air and naturally crunchy-munchies namely taken from the Beatles tunes. Also  by  RomKafé will be offering 3 handmade limited edition Beatles hot chocolate on the first day.

Enjoy the Beatles Festival, the music, the atmosphere from the time of the British invasion. May dress in the wild fashions of the late ’60s, just as the hippies, flower power, bell-bottom jeans, headbands and granny glasses. Roll along through the Octopus’s Food Garden, and check out the activity at the other stages

Get your tickets through: https://tixa.hu/beatles_weekend_2019

 “Come Together Right Now” … 2 days Beatles Festival @ Budapest – Hungary 2019.

Update by Aggie Reiter

10 Sep

New Modern Aircraft and Launch Flights to 3 New Destinations from Budapest in 2020

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Hungarian budget airline Wizz Air will launch flights from Budapest to Brussels International Airport,  to the Ukrainian cities of Kharkiv and Lviv, from the 1st of June 2020, Stephen Jones, Wizz Air deputy CEO and managing director of Wizz Air Hungary, said  during the morning hours at the press call on Tuesday. The low-cost airline’s new generation narrow-body aircraft will be launched for the first time at the Budapest base.

Also added that the Wizz Airʼs fleet is becoming increasingly environmentally friendly as it continues to acquire new aircraft, the airline. The first Airbus A321neo aircraft arrived at the Budapest base this year in March. Currently, a total of six such planes are in service in Budapest. Wizz Air is the “greenest” airline. The new generation of engines in the Airbus A321neo, together with industry-leading cockpit innovations, in fuel consumption decrease is 20%. The new generation of engines in the Airbus A321neo, together with industry-leading cockpit innovations, may deliver up to a 20% decrease in fuel consumption. The Airbus A321neoʼs noise pollution is nearly 50% lower than previous models, while its nitrogen oxide emissions are also 50% lower than its predecessors. With CO2 emissions of 57.7 g per passenger/kilometer, Wizz Air has the lowest ecological footprint among all the European airlines.

With the arrival of the new A321neo, Wizz Air’s Budapest fleet will expand to 14 members, while the airline’s Debrecen base will serve 2 aircraft. The airline indirectly supports the creation of more than 4,000 jobs in Hungary. In addition to the new destinations, Wizz Air will significantly increase the frequency of flights to Eindhoven, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv and Edinburgh starting in December. With this capacity expansion, Wizz Air will increase its domestic capacity to 6.7 million in 2020.

 Update and snaps Aggie Reiter

10 Sep

V4 Future Sports Festival @ Budapest 2019.

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Today was announced at the press gathering at the Sofitel Hotel’s Lounge Hall – Budapest  the coming up V4 Future Sports Festival and was also drawn the official list of players who will  compete for the prizes worth around millions in HUF

“Pro and amateur players from the esports world will compete in Counter Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO), Fortnite, Gran Turismo, FIFA, NBA2k20 and Tekken 7 in a total prize pool of 110,000,000 HUF.

Between 21st and 22nd of September VR-stands, simulators and youtuber stage will be available for the visitors next to the interesting exhibitions at the Hungexpo.

The qualifiers to the V4 Future Sports Festival offline finals have been organized in all 4 countries, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary, at the same time during the last few weeks. This year among the four invited teams, the defending team Mousesports, the second placed Virtus.pro, and two previous Major winners, Made in Brazil (MiBR) and Ninjas in Pyjamas (NiP), we will have the opportunity to root for the Hungarian Gamerzone who have been playing fascinating matches during the qualifiers. They have bested some of the biggest names in Hungary, so they will compete against the Czech EZ4ME, the Polish Adwokacik and from the European qualifiers, Tricked in the V4FSF CS:GO tournament with 300,000 EUR prize pool.

The teams have been split in two groups live at the press conference in Budapest. The group stages will be in a studio, six teams will qualify to play on the V4 Future Sports Festival main stage where they will have to prove their skills in front of thousands of fans in the audience. The groups of the V4 Future Sports Festival CS:GO finalists.

Group A  – Mousesports – Virtus pro – Tricked – EZ4ME

Group B – MiBR – NiP – Adwokacik – Gamerzone

Next to CS:GO other featured game, with the total number of 140 million players, Fortnite will have an outstanding prize pool worth 30,000 EUR. The winning team does not only take home the prizes but also win glory as they will have the opportunity to play with the best Fortnite players of the region. This year’s novelties by the tournaments organizers play with the amateur players and may win the outstanding prize pool worth 20,000 EUR in famous sports simulators (Tekken 7, FIFA, NBA and motorsports simulators).

Outside the tournaments the V4 Future Sports Conference professional conference and the Gaming Arena that holds the newest gaming innovations and developments will be available for the visitors. They will have the opportunity to see the newest esports innovations, the freshest hardwares and softwares, meet the best individual players and star teams of the region and even give a try to the newest games and technologies.

Attending the event is free of charge. For further detailed informations visit the official website of V4 Future Sports Festival: https://v4futuresports.eu “

Update Aggie Reiter

8 Sep

„The Swan Lake” performance @ Erkel Theater – Budapest 2019

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Erkel Theater

Monday, 2. December – 7.30 p.m.

Tuesday, 3.  December, –  3 p.m. and 7.30 p.m.

District VIII., 30. II. Pope János Pál Square – Budapest

After a spellbinding performance of „The Swan Lake” of last year in Budapest. This year the Moscow Ballet is to showcase again the most beautiful gems of classical dance The Swan Lake Ballet. The performance will be on stage twice in 2019 for a culture-hungry audience.  The motto of the company is simple: to present the beautiful noble traditions of the classical dance theater to the widest audience and young people. it has been a pledge of uninterrupted success for thousands of audiences on five continents of the world – for over two decades now.

Set to Tchaikovsky’s magical and mystical score , The Swan Lake is one of the most famous and best loved works in the Ballet repertoire worldwide . The Royal Moscow Ballets production of Swan Lake is an irresistible combination of drama and tragedy set against the dramatic battle between good and evil.

Premiered by the Bolshoi was in 1877, “The Swan Lake” tells the story of Princess Odette, turned into a swan by a wicked wizard. Her near rescue by Prince Siegfried – played by Nijinsky in the classic 1911 version in London before his house arrest in Budapest – provides the ballet with its tragic ending.

The ballet troupe permanent participants of the Russian, French, Swiss, Polish, Spanish, Italian, Austrian, Irish and German theater people, but occur in Israel, in the Canary Islands, China, Korea, Japan, Malta and Sri Lanka.

The RMB has since given one thousand shows around the world, from Austria to Zambia, also toured with evergreen favorites such as ‘The Nutcracker’, ‘Romeo & Juliet’ and ‘Cinderella’.

The troupe was founded by Anatoly Emelianov, August 12, 2002 took place first show – and pillars of the Moscow intellectuals also attended the show. By the tenth anniversary of the dance group, had already staged 20 modern and 15 classical ballet performances, choreographed by Anatoly Emelianov. Since the group’s existence, they have toured in many countries such as Tanzania, Zambia and Kenya – the dancers have been staged in the immediate vicinity of Victoria Falls and the audience has received a huge ovation from Don Quixote.

Due to the rapid decline in tickets and the great interest,  “The Swan Lake” ballet troupe will hold an extra performance! On 3. December, before the evening performances, at 3 p.m. will include Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece at the Erkel Theater.

Update Aggie Reiter

29 Aug

Friday on your mind … „Kapj Rá„ – „Get it” … Fish … Fish … Fish!

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Halkakas (Fish Bistro)

District, VII., 36. Dohány Street – Budapest

During the morning hours the press individuals were invited to hear about the latest campaign regarding fish consumption in Hungary – namely „Kapj Rá„ – „Get it”

Péter Ondré, Managing Director of the Agricultural Marketing Center and Ferenc Lévai, spokesman for MA-HAL, spoke at the press conference. According to the Agricultural Marketing Center, download of the application can solve different tasks, solve fish and fish related questions, find interesting information about fish, how to prepare fish dishes, and watch recipe videos, said Péter Ondré. In addition, he reported „Kapj rá” “Get it!” has developed a mobile app that users can download for free.

Ferenc Lévai, member of the Hungarian Aquaculture and Fisheries Trade Union (MA-HAL), said, „Kapj Rá” – “Get it!” primary task of the campaign is to increase domestic fish consumption. The campaign highlights the importance of a healthy lifestyle and conscious nutrition, and shows consumers that fish are lagging in the popularity race when the food industry started to market cheap molluscs and covered with breadcrumbs stuffed-processed products from chicken, pork and other meat but not fish. In addition, fish has traditionally been considered the food of the poor, and as a result prosperity has been out of the kitchen by the variety of fish dishes as well. He added that Hungarians eat 5.5-6 kilograms of fish/person/year, while the EU average is around 20 kilograms and the continental record in Portugal the folks eat 56 kilograms/year.

In the future, his goal is to invite customers at least once a week, let’s say marking it on Fridays for fish lovers to eat fish! Hopefully this campaign will go far beyond Budapest and throughout Hungary restaurants will place on their menus Fish Friday  …   „Kapj Rá ” – ” Get it!

At the Halkakas Fish Bistro you are guaranteed the fish ingredients exclusively obtained from Hungary. The bistro only use cooking fresh fish, no deep-frozen. At the end of the press conference individuals were invited onto trays filled with fish delights. The smoked carp pâté, the catfish gyros, the unmatched carp crisps and the carp tempura where all from Hungary’ rivers, ponds and lakes. We swam as fish in the water with the delightful tastes!

Update and snaps Aggie Reiter

27 Aug

Season opening concert – Italian Cultural Institute @ Budapest

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The Rana-Argentieri Duo

Friday, September 5, 2019.  6.30 p.m.

Italian Cultural Institute, Giuseppe Verdi Hall

District; VIII., 8. Bródy Sándor Street – Budapest

This season  starting  with youthful freshness on September, 5.  concert featuring Ludovica Rana (cello) and Stefania Argentieri (piano), the newly formed duo of young Puglian musicians to discover and introduce the lesser known but highly artistic Italian chamber repertoire.

Their concert, Portrait of a Musical, invites the listeners/viewer on a journey through the stylistic explorations, poetics, and suggestions of hidden Italian instrumental chamber music. This Italian musical portrait of Martucci is pure melody lyrics and well-followed structure it starts from his composition and passes through Busoni’s formal metamorphoses and stills of Castelnuovo-Tedesco to the innovative and imagined synthesis of Giovanni Sollima.

Puglia Sounds Export project sponsors: Puglia Region – Assessorato all’Industria Turistica e Culturale, Puglia Sounds,Teatro Pubblico Pugliese.

Required Reservation: iicbudapest@esteri.it
Worthwhile to register for a membership card to be able to participate at not just this but forthcoming concert but to the following concerts with a valid card to the Italian Cultural Institute. With the member’s card (+1 person) can participate.

Update Aggie Reiter

27 Aug

World-renowned artists @ Budapest – Hungary – 2019.

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On Friday this week begins the first Inaugural New Millennium International Chamber Music Festival and Master Classes in Budapest … World-renowned artists will be the guests from August, 30. until September, 3. 2019.

The Cadenza Arts Management plays an important role in organizing the operative tasks of the festival.

Violinist Miranda Liu, the youngest concertmaster in Hungary, focuses on possibly the most authentic interpretation of chamber music. She has launched the New Millennium International Chamber Music Festival, which will take place in Budapest at the Festetics Palace, Benczúr Palace and the Chamber Hall of the Old Music Academy at the most emblematic concert halls to host such events. Performers include: the Central European String Quartet, pianist Tamás Érdi, clarinetist Csaba Klenyán, cellist Bartosz Koziak from Poland and pianist Georgy Tchaidze from Russia. Furthermore, the chamber orchestra Central European Strings will be making its debut, and the most successful musicians of the younger generation will perform as well.  Innovative programs will provide attendees the excellent opportunity to hear sextet and septet masterpieces in addition to the rich duo, trio and quartet repertoire.

The international master classes of the festival are open to musicians of all ages, offering the opportunity to study solo or chamber music repertoire at individual lessons with the teaching artists of the festival. Students may participate in the festival’s concerto competition to win a prize of a solo performance beside the artists of the festival and make their debuts with the Central European Strings at the festival’s closing concert.

Detailed program of the New Millennium International Chamber Music Festival:

Performers to be: Miranda Liu – Artistic Director. Ensemble in Residence: Central European String Quartet (Miranda Liu, Máté Soós, Haruka Nagao, Judit Szabó) and many more awesome musicians.

Dates and  venues to the concerts_

Friday, August, 30. 2019, 7:30 p.m. – Festetics Palace, Mirror room

Saturday, August, 31. 2019, 5 p.m. Franz Liszt Old Academy of Music, Chamber Hall- -“Brahms”

Sunday, September,1. 2019, 7-30 p.m. – Benczúr Palace, ceremonial hall

Monday, September, 2. 2019, 5 p.m. Franz Liszt Old Academy of Music, Chamber Hall

Closing Concert with the Central European Strings and the winners of the festival’s competition

Monday, September, 2. 2019, 7.30 p.m. Franz Liszt Old Academy of Music, Chamber Hall

Award Ceremony … The New Millennium Music Festival and Master Classes’s Competition Winners perform as soloists with the Central European Strings.

Entry tickets to the festival’s concerts:

1300HUF/single ticket, afternoon concert

2000HUF/single ticket, evening concert

6000HUF/4 concert festival pass (evening concerts)

7500HUF/6 concert festival pass.

Tickets and passes can be purchased at the Liszt Academy Ticket Office and/or through nmicmf.jegy.hu, Interticket ticket offices.

Note: Daily programs stroll down: https://nmicmf.com/

Press release

Update Aggie Reiter

26 Aug

“This is Africa” Community Day @ Budapest 2019.

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Join the full day festival on September, 29. 2019 in Budapest between 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. at the Stefánia Palace – (Honvéd Cultural Center), District, XIV., Stefánia Street.

This is Africa Community Day has been held during every autumn in the past years.
Peek into the programs:

Instructive, interesting, entertaining, adventurous and scientific lectures. Unheard savannah tales for children, exciting exotic plays-fairs, handcrafting.

Interactive afro dance,  afro jazz, mask collection, African themed paintings exhibition, movie screening,

FREE Admission. Everyone is welcome no age limited!

Update Aggie Reiter

21 Aug

Miles Davis – Birth of the Cool – musical biographical documentary 2019

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Miles – The Genius far miles beyond his era!

Miles Davis: Horn player, bandleader, visionary, and most of all in so many different waves of music he did. Elegant, intellectual, vain. Callous, conflicted, controversial.

Coming to cinemas in Hungary from the end of August, gives an insight into Miles Davis’s life and career, based on his own words and autobiography of the music and pop culture icon. Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, studio outtakes, and rare photos, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool tells the story of a truly singular talent and unpacks the man behind the horn. Birth of the Cool lays out the complicated personal history and game changing musical revolutions of the jazz legend, and admirably tries to cover it all into a two-hour documentary. Directed By: Stanley Nelson – Runtime:115 minutes.

The central theme of Miles Davis’s life was his restless determination to break boundaries and live life on his own terms. It made him a star, it also made him incredibly difficult to live with, for the people who loved him most. Again and again, in music and in life, Miles broke with convention and when he thought his work came to represent a new convention, he changed it again. Miles’s bold disregard for tradition, his clarity of vision, his relentless drive, and constant thirst for new experiences made him an inspiring collaborator to fellow musicians and a cultural icon to generations of listeners. It made him an innovator in music—from bebop to “cool jazz,” modern quintets, orchestral music, jazz fusion, rock ‘n’ roll, and even hip-hop.
The film’s debut at the cult Sundance Film Festival has seen unprecedented archive footage and personalized conversations with friends and co-creators portray the portrait of Miles Davis, for whom art was everything. Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb, Lee Konitz, Carlos Santana, or Flea from The Red Hot Chili Peppers are the names of world-renowned musicians who have been named for their landmark compilation record for Davis’ revolutionary arrangement.

English-American subtitled film portraits convey the Urania National Film Theater in Budapest, for the first time on

August, 30 at 8 p.m.

In addition, it will be featured at many other locations throughout the country,  distributed by Pannonia Entertainment.

Update Aggie Reiter

18 Aug

Visit Gyula – Hungary’s National Holiday – 20/08/2019.

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Whether visited Gyula or not it is a fine time for locals and foreigners  to join at the City of Gyula during the three-day National celebration, whereas one of the country’s largest, most beautiful lido and thermal baths of Hungary, the Gyula Castle Spa and other of experiences can be found just at your fingertips. Below are some highlights to take place during the 20th of August on Hungary’s National Holiday.

Visitors are more than welcome to join the celebration of the Foundation of the State of Hungary at the awesome venue of Gyula by the Castle Garden. The Castle of Gyula former Kingdom of Hungary is the only intact Gothic fortress flat in countryside of Hungary.

After refreshing a day at the mineral bath at 5 p.m. the Tale Corner awaiting for the little and elder children with
tales. Additional programs: Babika Folk Playhouse.

At 6 p.m. The Knights – Fairground Comedy. Continuing at 7 p.m. Regélők Singing band on the program.

Celebratory greeting  at 8.30 p.m. by Dr. Ernő Görgényi, Mayor of Gyula.

The Komorán band will hold a gala concert following by celebrating a national day with grand fireworks.

Visit Gyula and enjoy the sights and sound.

Update: Aggie Reiter

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