Farkas Gyulai – violinist, singer, dancer, also plays the koboz, gardon, flutes and, most importantly, is able to teach all this in a very natural and gentle way. Co-founder of the band Szépszerével (2012), founder of the band Szőrénszálán (2023), with whom he often visits Poland. Sympathy for Poland and Poles has also translated into…

Sámsondi Gergely – is a phenomenal dance musician, a non-stage performer and a pupil of village masters (including Zoltán Vak from Gimesz). He plays the violin, kobos, flutes and dulcimer. Since 1993, he has regularly organised dance houses where he performs as the leader of the Borvíz string band specialising in music from Transylvania, Seklerszczyzna…

Cuyahoga Wednesday is a place in time and space where lovers of communal singing and musical traditions meet. The group operates at the Bydgoszcz Przedmieście Cultural Center in Toruń under the direction of Katarzyna Rosik. They get to know the Kuyavian repertoire thanks to archival recordings of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy…

Joanna Mieszkowicz I have always loved dancing, traveling, meeting people and engaging them in ecological and cultural activities (I am an environmental lady by training). For more than 2 decades I have been exploring the dances of the Chango people by participating in many meetings of dance houses, dance tabors in Romania, Hungary and Poland….

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…

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…