The band plays temperamental kolomyjki, polkas and chants, which can still be heard from time to time in the Hutsul region, i.e. in the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains, including the Black Mountain range. To this music Hutsuls still play, dance and feast to this day Performers of traditional Hutsul music are mainly the best students of…

I was born in Budapest in 1973, in a family of musicians. I have been playing the violin since I was six years old. In 1991 I graduated from the Győr Conservatory of Music in violin and in 1998 from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in bass viola (name of folk instrument “brácsa”). My…

As a child, he danced with Zola Prauda in Kaba (Hungary, near Debrecen) and played the zither in the Vasvirág zither orchestra in Kaba. In 2004, as a freshman, he got his first six-hole “sü’ltyü” flute. He later studied at the Óbuda School of Folk Music with Sándor Balogh and Zoltán Juhász. He is also…

Born in 1940, András Hodorog, a flutist from Klézse, is a leading M Csángó folk musician from Moldva. In 2016 he was awarded the Master of Folk Art (a Népművészet Mestere ) prize. He learned to play the flute from his maternal grandfather. His instrumental knowledge is not limited to dance music, but he is…

Júlia Skopp – movement and music teacher (BA at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna). She has been playing flutes and dancing since she was a child; she fell in love with chango dances in 2012, although she frequented the Csángó Festival in Jászberény as a child. Since then, she has participated…