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Budapest embarks on 6-month season celebrating Erkel, Mahler, Liszt - A six-month series celebrating the anniversaries of Ferenc Erkel, Gustav Mahler and Franz Liszt will start in Budapest this Sunday, the director of Hungarofest said on Tuesday.

MTI photo exhibition on 1989/94 opens in C Romania - An exhibition showing political changes during the 1989-1994 period on photos mostly from the Hungarian News Agency MTI's archives opened in central Romania's Targu Mures on Thursday.

President Schmitt opens Zsolnay porcelain exhibition - Hundreds of unique porcelain objects by the renowned Zsolnay porcelain factory went on show in Pecs, southwest Hungary, on Wednesday, at an exhibition opened by President Pal Schmitt.

Israeli Cultural Institute opens in Budapest - An Israeli Cultural Institute has opened in central Budapest to present all segments of Israel's diverse "mosaic culture" to the public, Director Gabor Balazs told a news conference in Budapest on Wednesday.

Hungarian culture to help close gap with China, says state secretary - Presenting the diversity of Hungarian culture and its world-class products aims to narrow the gap between Hungary and China, state secretary for culture Geza Szocs said at the launch of a programme series in China on Monday.

MTI publishes photos from 1968-1979 - Hungarian News Agency MTI has published the seventh, penultimate volume of a series of photo albums entitled "Pictures of an Era".

Hungarian Composer Takes Work to Japan -

The 34-year-old Hungarian composer Márton Illés is taking his work for large ensemble Torso III – which has already been performed in Berlin, Hamburg, Paris and Rome, to Tokyo on August 23.

Six month season celebrating Erkel, Mahler, Liszt

A six-month series celebrating the anniversaries of Ferenc Erkel, Gustav Mahler and Franz Liszt will start in Budapest this Sunday, the director of Hungarofest said on Tuesday.

Exhibition Shows History of Cycling in Capital
The Budapest Historical Museuem’s Kiscelli Museum is opening an exhibition on the cultural history of bicycling in the capital this autumn.

Bartók Recording Named “Album of the Month” by BBC
A recording from the Bartók New Series has been named album of the month in the latest issue of BBC Music Magazine.

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Parno Graszt Plays L.A.

July 23, 2010

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Parno Graszt, the Hungarian band whom Songlines magazine called “the source of Gypsy music”, performed for several hundred fans at Los Angeles’ Skirball Cultural Center on Thursday.

Parno Graszt

Band members József Oláh (vocals, guitar, tambura) Viktor Oláh (vocals, guitar, dance) Sándor Horváth (vocals, spoons, dance), János Jakocska (vocals, guitar), Mária Balogh (vocals, dance), Krisztián Oláh (accordion), János Oláh (double bass) and István Németh (oral bass, churn) brought the audience to their feet with numbers such as Menni, menni, muszáj menni, Az a szép, az a szép and Gelem, gelem.

The concert is part of a tour of California that also included shows in Oakland, Chico and Berkeley. It is the second time the band has come to the United States to perform.

The Skirball Cultural Center is a Jewish cultural institution that seeks “to explore the connections between four thousand years of Jewish heritage and the vitality of American democratic ideals”.

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