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2 Sep

Arrived the II. Piaggio Pizza-Making Championship – Food Truck Show – Kincsem Park – Budapest

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At the fall Kincsem Park event, true to tradition, you could also immerse yourself in the yummy flavors of Italy as the guest country on the spot and enjoy in addition the greyhound and horse racing programs.

Italian cuisine is one of the best known and most popular around the world. From hearty pasta dishes to iconic pizzas, everything is about the harmony of the best ingredients, so you can experience Italian gastronomy at the International Horse and Greyhound Competition and Food Truck Show.

In addition to the most delicious food, musical programs, various performances and a market await guests, all with an Italian theme. The Sunshine Ice-cream van is definitely not to be missed. To ease your hungry belly stop by and have a real Hungarian in taste the “Pulled pork bun”.

With the participation of Chef Lázár, the II. Piaggio Pizza-Making Championship, where they are looking for the most delicious and beautiful pizzas in Hungary.

True to tradition, every truck is prepared with an Italian-flavored food or drink, which can be tried at a single price, in a tasting format, and of course you can also vote for your favorites.

Grab your ticket online at a discounted price or on the spot for 2500HUF/person/day.

Entry is free for under 14s!

Update & snaps by Aggie Reiter

17 Aug

The Boys Are Back In Town – MAN DOKI SOULMATES Budapest

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Upon their 30 years of existence, the supergroup he leads… the MAN Doki Soulmates, is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a concert in Budapest.

The boys are back in town with musician-producer Leslie Mandoki’s band, and visited Mandoki’s Soulmates. The main rehearsal toom place at Bem quayside Club on Thursday, August 17, 2023.  On Friday, 18. August Mandoki Soulmates will give a free jubilee concert with world stars, including Grammy Award-winning guitarist Al Di Meola, American jazz guitarist Mike Stern, bassist Richard Bona and jazz trumpeter John Helliwell (one of my favorites from Supertramp) at the Basilica on the Szentáromság square – Budapest. The concert starts at 7 p.m. and to grab your seats early cause the seats are limited.

After a small band rehearsal, musician-producer Leslie Mandoki introduced the artists joining the band at the Mandoki Soulmates press conference on Thursday evening. In addition to the international stars, he also introduced domestic performers Caramelt and Misi Mező, with whom they will also perform at the concert on August 18.

Even before his defection from Hungary in 1975, he played music on this stage with such fame as the giant flute artist Ádám Török+.

After jamming, a short press conference was held. He said that they started this year’s tour with their American and English friends, and they wanted to come to Budapest at first before the tour to Europe. He introduced the Budapest soulmates team. This year, the biggest American-English soulmates group will take the stage. He also talked about how Al Di Meola gave the name of the super group, he and the Grammy-winning guitarist know each other preety well, and have formed a lifelong friendship. He emphasized that this is not a retro group, different musical styles come together… Hungarian folk music, fusion jazz, funky, soul, rhythm&blues.

He said they wrote a “Peace Song” which maybe doesn’t fit in the mood of the whole world at all… BUT still… as he said: Q.:” We are the grandchildren of the Woodstock generation and felt that we now owe it to the audience to address the song which title is: Devil’s Encyclopedia .

Q.: “About the choosen venue this time. The Basilica played a major role in selecting the venue, we had to make sure that the audience had the best in every aspect, so that they could enjoy every moment of the four and a half hour concert.”

Mandoki spoke about how he fled Hungary,  he was a dissident in 1975. Beyond on the other side of the border,  he was asked where he was going, he said to America because he wanted to be a famous musician as his role models. Since then he has lived in Germany and America. He himself wrote the lyrics of the songs in English, because even though he loves the varied Hungarian language, it is easier to write in English.

Added: Q.: “What keeps this fantastic team of 35 people together is the community of values, the love of music and most of all the fact that we are SOULMATES … we live with the audience, this is what has kept the band together for 30 years”.

The soulmates musicians have won a total of more than 35 Grammy awards so far, and the number of audio carriers sold exceeds 350 million.

Recommender and snaps by Aggie Reiter

7 Aug

The 25th Jewish Cultural Festival @ Budapest

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The 25th Jewish Cultural Festival will offer music and literary events throughout Budapest from the 3rd up to 12th of September. 2023.

Events will be held at the Great Synagogue in Dohány street, Europe’s largest, and at the Frankel Leó, Hegedűs Gyula and Rumbach street synagogues, as well as in the Bálint House, House of Music Hungary and Papp László Budapest Sports Arena, they said in a statement.

The audience can hear great singers of Hungarian music life, such as Andrea Malek, Andrea Szulák, Mariann Falusi, Nika Veres Mónika, Anna Pásztor, Janicsák Veca, Péter Sziámi Müller, László Dés.

In the world of theaters, among the actors who stand out not only with their prose performances, but also with their singing skills, such influential artists as Petra Gubik, Eszter Ónodi, Réka Koós, Gabriella Hámori, Kata Janza, Béla Fesztbaum, Zoltán Bereczki, P. Szilveszter Szabó, Csonka András, Iván Kamarás, Gábor Máté and Pál Mácsai.

The excellent artists of the Hungarian music community will also be represented: we will have Katica Illényi, Orsolya Korcsolán, Judit Klein, Jáger Bandi, Kálmán Balogh, Miklós Lukács, Márton Szives, Gergely Nógrádi, Pál Banda, the Voice&Brass, the Debrecen Dixieland Jazz Band and the Klezmer band. The festival will be opened by the concert of the Budapest Klezmer Band led by Fegya Jávori, and the Sabbathsong Klezmer Band led by Tamás Masa, also celebrating its 25th anniversary, will close.

International performers will include the Voices of Yemen – Omri Mor Trio and the marimba and xylophone artist Alex Jacobowitz. Leonid Gutkin, and guests of the Binah Orchestra led by Leonid Gutkin in preparing for a world premiere and for this evening they will be joined by domestic and international performers such as joined by Netta Nimrodi and Arie Burshtein of the Israeli band Amber Revival, Alex and Nikita Pozdnyakov of Russia, who founded the band Rox Brothers, and Viktoria Singer Kolosova.

The festival will be opened by the Budapest Klezmer Band giving a concert and concluded with a performance by the Sabbathsong Klezmer Band.

Hurry-up to grab your ticket to one or several preformers show at the local ticket box or via the web before they are sold out.

Update by Aggie Reiter

4 Aug

Nights of Organs – Nationwide – August – 2023.

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Throughout the summer, a series of organ concerts are coming up all over the country, organized by the Hungarian Philharmonic. The opening chord is played by the Night of the Organs, then the OrgonaPont concert series provides quality entertainment in one of the hottest months of the year. In addition to classical organ music, there is a place for pop, rock, jazz, and even Swedish folk music. In addition to classical music classics, there will also be Hollywood soundtracks, sand animation, a light show, a musical fountain, and perhaps never-before-seen live instruments.

On August 5, the Night of Organs celebrates the queen of musical instruments, the organ, on a national level. Organized by the Hungarian Philharmonic, this majestic instrument will be played at dozens of venues. With the participation of the most important Hungarian and foreign organists in addition to classical music classics, Hollywood soundtracks will also be heard, but there will also be sand animation, a light show, a musical fountain, and instruments rarely seen live, such as the nickel harp and there on.

In Budapest in the Basilica, even for a whole evening, in Kecskemét as part of a four-church walk, and from Lake Balaton to Debrecen to Pécs in unique concerts that have been put together with great care.

The purpose of the concerts based on the pleasant atmosphere of the organ music is to offer quality programs on hot summer days in the coolness of the churches for all those who like a demanding rest. The queen of musical instruments will be played by the most talented organists in the program series.

Recommended by Aggie Reiter

1 Aug

Exhibition on Screen – Leonardo’s masterpieces -Hungary

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Leonardo da Vinci is the most famous artist in the world. The focus of this film, made on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of his death, is his unique paintings and drawings. Every single painting attributed to Leonardo is presented on a large screen in HD quality, never seen before, on a large screen, including the most important works, Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, Ginevra de Benci, Madonna Litta, Madonna of the Rocks, and more than a dozen other works.

The film gives viewers a fresh perspective on Leonardo’s life – his ingenuity, his sculptural qualities, his military inventions and his ability to navigate the mazes of everyday politics … all through the prism of his art, giving a complete portrait of the Renaissance genius … thousands of his people are trying to unravel the secret , from the unsurpassed perfection of the polymath genius.

The summer of 2023, a part of the Exhibition on Screen about Leonardo will be shown in cinemas. At the “event cinema” were previously shown already in domestic movie theaters a few occasions. 

Distributor Pannonia Entertainment Ltd.

21 Jul

Step into Japan … INDEPENDENT CINEMA 2023 finally opens!

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From August till October 2023, the Japan Foundation (JF) will hold a special feature “JFF+ INDEPENDENT CINEMA 2023” which will shine a spotlight on the “mini-theaters” that support the diversity of Japanese film culture and adding to the vibrancy of local communities.

On-site Japanese film festivals around the world … The “Japanese Film Festival (JFF: JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL)” is a film festival organized by JF, showcasing primarily new Japanese films at various locations. It was initiated in 2016 with the objective of reaching 10 ASEAN countries and Australia, under the slogan “Japanese movies anytime, anywhere.” Since its inception, the festival has expanded its reach to include China, Russia, India, and Brazil, actively promoting the allure of Japanese cinema worldwide …for deepth details, to view hosting country screenings … here you go: (https://www.jpf.go.jp/e/world/index.html).
Below the films on screen: 12 films will be screened online for three months. All films are free of charge and can be enjoyed worldwide (some films are not available in all regions), excluding Japan, until October 31.
… And Your Bird Can Sing (2018) by MIYAKE Sho
… Follow the Light (2021) by NARITA Yoichi
… LONELY GLORY (2022) by SAKON Keitaro
… An Artisan’s Legacy, Tsunekazu Nishioka (2012) by YAMAZAKI Yuji
… Hey! Our dear Don-chan (2022) by OKITA Shuichi
… A Muse Never Drowns (2022) by ASAO Nozomi
… A Girl in My Room (2022) by TAKAHASHI Natsuki
… TENZO (2019) by TOMITA Katsuya
… HANAGATAMI (2017) by OBAYASHI Nobuhiko
… BON-UTA, A Song from Home (2019) by NAKAE Yuji
… Techno Brothers (2023) by WATANABE Hirobumi
… Bachiranun (2021) by HIGASHIMORI Aika

Update: Aggie Reiter

1 Jul

Seven-meter globe floating … pin-point copy of the Earth … above visitors’ heads during the 4-days Light Festival @ Pécs

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Walking on light carpet, shining coral reefs and an enchanted playground at night…

… the core of the Zsolnay Light Festival (external link) is the eye-catching light paintings, installations and light programs, which make up the Path of Light. July 6-9. between, at the Pécs‘s festival, a gigantic globe shines above the visitors heads, while the folklore of the Mecsek forces also comes to life.

After night falls, visitors in Pécs will be amazed by the building projections and site-specific light creations of domestic and foreign light artists. Works on the streets and squares of the city can be viewed free of charge.

The closed spaces can be visited with the Light Path Extra wristband, these are: Kodály Center, Cella Septichora Visitor Center, House of Civil Communities, Hassán Dzámi Jakovali, Baranya County Assembly Hall.

The Kodály Center has an external light projection, and it also has two indoor works. The Superb team comes from Belgium with an interactive choir installation, where can conduct a choir made up of our own copies as a conductor. The seven-meter globe floating in the concert hall, Gaia, is one of the most anticipated attractions of the festival. The hypnotic work of the Englishman Luke Jerram brings out the deepest, most intense feelings about our planet from the viewers. The experience is completed by the surround sound composition of BAFTA award-winning composer Dan Jones.

Looking at the light projection of the Dzami on Széchenyi Square, can immerse themselves in the world of coral reefs of ethereal beauty, home to millions of colorful creatures. The projection is based on data collected by NASA over 20 years; it shows changes in ocean currents, water temperature, chlorophyll, wind, salinity and water, illustrating how the world of coral reefs is transformed in warming waters.

The artists who come to the ÁRKÁD Pécs Shopping Center break down the ordinary barriers of cities to make the world a brighter, happier and more surreal place. Humorous, giant fairy-tale creatures cover the building, guaranteed to bring a smile to everyone’s face! In the shopping center, another, both playful and thought-provoking creation awaits those interested, which requires two people to try. While watching themselves in the mirror, their facial image merges with that of the other, which creates an exciting feeling, reflecting on the world of ideas of identity and empathy.

In Czinderi Park, an enchanted playground awaits young and old, after nightfall, the games come alive and offer new stimuli and experiences through the light. For many years, one of the most popular creations on the Light Carpet Path which includes analog light painting of the pavement and house walls of Janus Pannonius Street.

The light painting that comes to life on Theater Square invites the visitor on a journey through the forest. In addition to the animals, plants and mushrooms of the domestic forests, the work of Laluz Visuals uses light and music to create the fairytale world of the forests of Mecsek.

The light projection on the Barbican bastion shows how environmentally harmful plastics “come to life”. The PET/LED interactive art installation on Jókai Square also draws attention to the importance of recycling. By touching the PET bottles, anyone can conjure up lights on the surrounding buildings.

The work called LIMEN, which can be seen in the hall of the Baranya County Assembly, translates the ultrasounds emitted by the lamps, which are not perceptible to the human ear, into perceptible frequencies, so that while is to see, also hear the invisible sound of light.

In the Nádor Gallery, the contemporary sound-light “organ” weaves light phenomena with the help of light beams that move to the sounds that fill the space. It is nothing more than visual music extended into space.

On the Búza Square, a mechanical light playground awaits those interested, which come to life with sunlight and human power in an enchanted chapel.

The Path of Light opening hours: Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 9.30 p.m. – 1 a.m. Sunday: 9.30 p.m.– Midnight.

The Kodály Center, the House of Civil Communities and the Dzami Hassán Jakováli welcome visitors from Friday to Sunday from Noon.

Recommended by Aggie Reiter

2 Jun

The 3rd Déryné Theater’s Festival – Sátoraljaújhely

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Five days, eleven locations, more than seventy free programs in between July 19 – 23, organizing the Déryné Festival for the 3rd time. Fond of culture programs are welcome in and around Sátoraljaújhely with free theater performances, family programs and concerts.

An overview of some programs:

Concerts: Ungvári Borterasz: July, 20. Csík orchestra – Tárkány Művek – Kaláka – July, 21. Budapest Jazz Orchestra – Swing Girls – DÁNIELFY – July, 22. Besh o droM – Aurevoir – Keleti Brass Band – July, 23. Bohemian Betyars – Balkan Fanatik – Hutchky & Stars.

Theater performances: July, 19. Déryné Company – Lajos Kossuth Cultural Center
Valley Theater: July, 20. 8.30 p.m. Forrás Folk Dance Ensemble: Masterwork
TheaterWagen moving stage – Mancsi Puppet Theater – July, 20. Hollózáza – 6 p.m. For the little foolishness.

Family programs: July, 22. Széphalom
10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Kenderkóc Folk Playhouse, 11 a.m. – 11.45 a.m. – Creative music playshop – 4 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. Naninski and Figaro: Flying acrobats. – 5 p.m. – 5.50 p.m. Concert by Eszter Kárász and the fairy-tale band Eszter-lánc

Recommendation by Aggie Reiter

15 May

The slogan of the evening … “Have a barrel of fun!”

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Saturday Night Live wasn’t a live broadcast … but indeed was Live Barrel Pig exclusive VIP beer night!

 As the night slowly appeared, the guests arrived for an exclusive beer tasting to the new series of HopTop unique beers. It was held in the tasting room of the wonderful wine shop of WineHub. Were able to taste continuously  6+1  beers, but may also tasted 3 special IPA beers as to warm-up ourselves.  The premium beers selection were terrific: Surprise beer – Rudeboy – Sex on the barrel – Fear of the dark II. – Canadian Lover – Fear of the dark I. – Mental trainer.

Unfortunately, Ali Rawech Szami – owner of the HopTop brewery had to leave earlier. We, the audience heard interesting facts about the Barrel Pig beer from László Szilágyi – head of marketing.  Ádám  – brewing masters. Talked about the special flavors given from the wooden barrels.  During the ongoing tasting were initiated about the Barrel Pig project and overall made the audience spice up a bit with the features of the new series as introducing the 6 items for tasting. As it turned out, they had been at the brewery continuously tasting  from the start of the first barrel-aged beer and its flavors for a year.

Each of the HopTop beers are matured in a special barrel. The whiskey barrels bought from abroad gave the taste to these special new beers. Indeed … no wonder the resulted superb beers. For each batch, the Barrel Pig is aged from the aroma and flavor gained from the previous life of the wooden barrel.  There are rum, bourbon, whiskey and even maple syrup barrels. Within these the aromas extracted from different barrels that can be tasted the characteristics of dark chocolate combined with soft-creamy and vanilla notes.

What really dominates are Imperial Milk Stouts and Multigrain Barley casks. Imperial stouts with the unicorn pig barrel logo and a barley wine rested primarily in the Kentucky Bourbon barrels, maple syrup barrels and a Barbadian rum barrel. The beer called Sex on the Barrel kept various periods of time and bottled when deemed appropriate. There is no addition to the beers. The outwardly look shows something different by the color of the cap draining wax.  Stands as a crown making it truly special and elegant.   Mouthwatering were the sublime fruity and spicy flavors.  These HopTop beers really deserve to be served outstandingly and now reached their best form.

Going to another level and watching with high eyebrows  – shining eyes came to be really in the mood to the mental training taste. Indeed looked as all liked what tasted. Was told next we are tasting the Milk Imperial Stout (11.8%), which was aged for 1 year in a Kentucky Bourbon barrel to extract all the aromas from it. The end result was a real, creamy Mental Trainer! The reason why the “Milk” stand on some of the beer label is a reminder for those to know it is not lactose free!

At the Winehub which gave the platform to the exclusive beer tasting is an awesome wine shop which is usually operating as a bistro.

Entering their store sight catching venue welcome the visitors. The guests were perfectly cared and led to the tasting tables by  Péter Lakatos – experienced Sommelier with a demonstrated history of working in the wine and spirits industry. Heard about the enormous  “plant” one the spot where more than 500 wines from nearly 60 Hungarian and foreign wineries were out on display. The wine center is also unique on an international level.  May connect all players of wine making and the wine world without restrictions. They provide countless services that are not too much different on the Hungarian wine market. They are wholesale partners, but in their wine center they also offer tasting rooms, meeting rooms and special sales points. They pay attention to the wine-drinking community. They offer much more than an online and offline wine space. In addition to their wine shop and web shop, they welcome guests with continuous training, courses, tasting events, tasting rooms. Not to mention, a well arranged comfy community space, where grooving on the 60’s-’70s music with friends along a smooth wine. They have a bistro and a fine dining restaurant for those who want to immerse themselves also in the world of gastronomy.

Riport and snaps by Aggie Reiter

12 May

Martin Scorsese’s concert film “The Band” on cinemas end of May – Hungary

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This time, Pannónia Entertainment brings the 1978 film The Last Waltz to selected cinemas nationwide, 43 years after its original Hungarian premiere.

The Last Waltz concert film by Scorsese of the Canadian-American rock group The Band.

As the director was one of Woodstock’s editors, he already had some experience in the genre when he took on the filming of The Band’s farewell performance in San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom on November, 25, 1976 on Thanksgiving 1976. Many songs  in those days had political message as the change came in-and-around the world.

The director even shot some additions to the work in the studio, they added a theme song, but the post-production took a year and a half due to another doc and the completion of New York. Robert De Niro‘s musical stood out with its sets, but the visual designer of the concert was not just anyone: the veteran Boris Leven (West Side Story, The Voice of Music) was responsible for it.

Hungarians were able to see the film with subtitles in cinema theaters in August 1979, and although it was later dubbed, it will be shown with subtitles faithful to the original presentation from May 25. In 2002. The DVD was made, in 2006, a Blu-Ray remaster was among the first to be made for the disc editions, but last year, with Scorsese’s approval, a full-scale restoration of the original negatives was presented at the Cannes Film Festival, in which the aspect ratio was restored and the correct color correction can also be found, while the source of the audio material is the 2001 remix, which was released as a music album at the time. We owe the negatives to 7 cameramen, including Vilmos Zsigmond, who won an Oscar with Encounters of the Third Kind, and László Kovács, who photographed the Easy Riders, among others, who was not affected by a technical stop during the concert, so he was the only one able to record everything from the stage.

The Band’s farewell was on a grand scale and although they opened and closed the evening, many other people performed besides them, so it was an approx. It swelled into a 5 and a half hour “mini-festival”. Scorsese began the dramaturgical after the applause, in order to take the viewer first to the post-production studio and then to the beginning of the ice rink party. In addition to The Band, Ronnie Hawkins, Michael McClure, Dr. John, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Joni Mitchell, Paul Butterfield, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, in the studio The Staple Singers and Emmylou Harris, and after some legal drag Bob Dylan also appears, while Ronnie Wood from The Rolling Stones and Ringo Starr from The Beatles also pay their respects in the final chord. Of course, there are still those left out who could no longer fit into the approx. 2 hours of playing time, but it is supplemented by interviews and behind-the-scenes recordings made by Scorsese, where the heavy use of cocaine, although not sonically, was visually retouched with rotoscoping techniques.

Gosh the Band’s drummer – Levon Helm (R.I.P.) …  from my impression … his looks are very much close as twin brother to Prince Harry Duke of Sussex … It is a fantastic to discover. 

The Last Waltz, is generally considered one of the best concert films ever made. You will be able to see for yourself if this is the case, following the suggestion that flashes in the opening, according to which: “This film must be played loudly!”.

Mark date into your calendar in advance for May, 25.2023.  and look for one of cinemas nationwide near by you. 

Last but not least The Band’s movie brings back the atmosphere of those ’60s and ’70s music/life style for many how they grew up in those days, and perhaps for young adult of to-day listen/ hear something before there age.

Riport by Aggie Reiter

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