Program

Fresh Folk | Chalga (HU)

20:00
Opus Jazz Club
Featuring:
  • Bori Fekete - vocals
  • Móni Horváth - saxophones, kaval, flute, vocals
  • Barbara Kuczera - violin, vocals
  • Dávid Szegő - drums
  • Szabolcs Takács - bass guitar, double bass
  • Tamás Zagyva - guitars

Gallery tickets will be available on the spot even if the online ticketing system tells you that the show is sold out. Please order your drinks downstairs at the bar if you are seated on the gallery.

Chalga is the kind of music that would be heard from an imaginary Kuruc military camp in the late 1600s on a night after a successful siege, with a couple of rock, jazz, and seventies funk records mixed in the loot. The band uses Balkan and Hungarian folk music unscrupulously. It might as well be pop music, like the original Bulgarian chalga, if they had a regular 4/4 song that could be danced by everyone. But fortunately the band has its eyes on something much more complex.

Chalga's history dates back to the mid-2000s. After numerous festival performances and two CDs (Sabir, 2006; Erdő, erdő, 2010), the band went on a hiatus. They reactivated in 2018: significantly transformed, playing music that's more fresh and less folky. The band's members are well known musicians from the Hungarian rock, jazz, folk and world music scenes. Their 2022 album, Ezért van az (Therefore it is) made its way on the World Music Charts Europe, and mesmerized audiences.

 

Tickets are available for 2500 HUF on the spot, online at bmc.jegy.hu, and at InterTicket Jegypont partners across Hungary.

Table reservations are automatically added during ticket purchase.
Please note that if you purchase an odd number of seats, you might have to share the table with others, especially if the concert is sold out.
For the best dining experience please arrive around 7pm.
We hold reservations until 8pm.

For more information, please call +36 1 216 7894

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