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Monday, 1 December 2008

 The Hungarian Cultural Centre recommends:

Kálmán Balogh and the Gypsy Cimbalom Band
“The Day of Joy”

The Palace of Arts

Sunday 21. December 2008, 19:30 - 22:00

Kálmán Balogh – cimbalom, Ferenc Kovács – violin, trumpet, Péter Bede – tenor saxophone, Frankie Látó – violin, Mihály György – guitar, Csaba Novák – double bass

Featuring: Ági Szalóki – vocals, Gusztáv Balogh – vocals, Gábor Pusztai – percussion

Kálmán Balogh’s cimbalom band, founded fifteen years ago, has a unique and extraordinary world.  This includes numerous European countries in which Gypsies play folk music, jazz or any kind of music for entertainment; it also includes instrumental and vocal music and although arrangements are constructed around Kálmán Balogh’s cimbalom, no less illumination is shone upon the bass, violin, guitar or trumpet. What’s more, this cimbalom band takes great care not to repeat itself too much. While they first made waves with the albums Roma Wanderer and Aroma as they grew in confidence, their next album, Gipsy Colours forged instrumental and vocal gypsy music into a unity. Their work with David Murray, David Murray and the Kálmán Balogh Gipsy Cimbalom Band featuring Ferenc Kovács extended a bridge between East European Gypsy music and free jazz. Last year’s album Aven Shavale showed the strengthening influence of Northern Rumanian and Balkan brass music.

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