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Hungarian Song Day, Duna Palace 2013

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Budapest Guide

For those, who takes seriously the love of music, and they takes it on the classic way, and now I am thinking about classic music, we recommend the Duna Palace between the Hungarian Song Day’s places in 2013. The Duna Palace is a historical building in Lipótváros. It was built in 1897 and it was casino. When it was a casino it took seriously the first-class programs, it gave place for concerts, and fortunately the organizers want the Duna Palace to hit the level with the visible and audile programs this year too, like their predecessors. For the classic music lovers it will be the perfect place on 8 September 2013 in Budapest on the Hungarian Song Day. It would be an unforgettable program, so do not miss it! Have fun!

Address: 1051 Budapest, Zrinyi Street 5

Programs:

18:00 The Hungarian song’s birth
The Czinege Band’s folk music concert
19.30 How big is God’s hand?
Chatting with Gulyás Dénes about his new book
20.00 Gala concert
Hungarian composers’ famous works with opera singers and Junior Prima Award artists
Artists: Kováts Kolos, Gulyás Dénes, Szakács Ildikó, Vörös Szilvia, Csóka Anita
By the piano: Bárkányi-Horváth Éva
Anchorman: Tóth Endre – music historian

Hungarian Song Day, Budavár Culture house 2013

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Budapest Guide

If you are open to the foreign language music, when the lyrics are not important, but the melody is, what charms you, than we recommend you the next program! I am sure; just few people from abroad have heard about the band Török Ádám and the MINI. Török Ádám have been for a long time in music life, he is amazing flute player and he often gives concert at the Budavár Culture house. Fortunately the virtuoso of jazz and blues will give concert on the Hungarian Song Day too, so do not miss it! In the MINI’s music the lyrics are less important than the melody.

If you like good music and open to the foreign language music, visit the Budavár Culture house on 8 September 2013! Have fun!

Address: Budavár Culture house (1101 Budapest, 6 Bem wharf)

This program is a part of Magyar Dal Napja on September 8th

Hungarian Song Day, BLOKK Creative center 2013

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Budapest Guide

The BLOKK Creative center is one of the most unusual and most different programs in the Hungarian Song Day in every year. The place of the programs located in the Ajtósi Dürer Street. In the BLOKK Creative center everybody would find the perfect program for themselves, if they love music and make music. The BLOKK Creative center will welcome visitors with open music practicing, children programs, acoustic music games, community painting, drum workshops, psychological groups with music, light painting, interactive music and photo exhibition, besides these the BLOKK’s DJs will mix the music for the relaxing and the dancing people too.

You should definitely visit the BLOKK Creative center’s program at the Ajtósi Dürer Street in Budapest on 8 September 2013 on the Hungarian Song Day 2013. Have fun!

Address: Budapest, 19-21 Ajtósi Dürer Street

Hungarian Song Day in the Akvárium club 2013

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Budapest Guide

If you decided that you will visit to the Hungarian capital, Budapest to see and to listen the Hungarian Song Day’s artists and programs, you definitely won’t be disappointed in the Akvárium club on 8 September 2013 which is located in the heart of the capital, at the Erzsébet square. This place will give place to the Jazz stage. Those, who love this fantastic and varied music, do not miss the nightclub at the Elizabeth square.

The environment is already worth to see. Do not miss the Hungarian Song Day’s Jazz stage on 8 September 2013 in the Akvárium club! This will be an enjoyable program for every age! Have fun!

Magyar Dal Napja 2013

Place: Akvárium club (1054 Budapest, 14 Erzsébet square)

Program
14.00 Emilio and the Gitano Band
15.15 Urbán Orsi Group
16.30 Mariann Falusi, Nikoletta Szőke, Bálint Gajer and the Studio 11
18.00 Mrs. Columbo

Hungarian Song Day, Jazz stage

The Hungarian Song Day / Magyar Dal Napja 2013

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Budapest Guide

Want to get to know more about Hungarian Music? Visit Budapest on the Hungarian Song Day (Magyar Dal Napja) on September 8th. There will be programs in several venues and you can get an impression of the diversity in Hungarian music if you enjoy the programs available on this day.

We recommend our next program for those, who like music and open to the foreign music, and consider it no problem if they don’t understand the lyrics. In Hungary the Hungarian Song Day has been arranged since 2008, and so it is coming back in 2013 as well. The program’s date is 8 September 2013 in different cities in Hungary. However the center of the festival is a Hungarian little city, Békéscsaba, but of course the capital Budapest will be turned into a musical paradise on this day in addition to many other cities.

Those who visit Budapest could run accidentally or direct into one place or program of the Hungarian Song Day, The famous Akárium club in the heart of the capital, at the Erzsébet Square will give place to the Jazz Song Stage, where jazz lovers could listen their favorites. On the tram number 4’s tramway the Hungarian yellow tram change to Melody Tram one week before the main day, and this nostalgia tram will deliver the musicians. The Duna Palace, which built in the 19th century and it was a casino, will provide classic music for the fanatics.

Do not miss the Hungarian Song Day on 8 September 2013 in Budapest or in other city in Hungary. Meet the Hungarian culture’s music from the expressly traditional to styles from overseas. Believe us, you won’t be disappointed! Have fun!

Budapest places of the Hungarian Song Day 2013:

Akvárium Club – Jazz stage
Blokk Creative Center – center of musicians, actors and artists
Budapest Jazz Club – singer girls, girly songs
Budavár Culture House – Bem Rockpart
Duna Palace – Classic stage
Fonó Buda Music house – Folk music stage
Kobuci Garden – World music stage
Museum garden – Song lyrics stage
Óbuda Social center – choir, singing together
R33 – Hungarian underground bands
RaM – Rock music stage
Rocktogon – Hungarian rock bands
Újpest – Junction stage
Víg Theatre – Pop festival 40

Hungarian Song Day 2013

September 8th

Szimfonik Live 3.0

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Budapest Guide

One day before the Hungarian Song Day, on 7 September 2013 the Millenárius park will fill with life, music and other programs on the Public Media Day. On this day you could see and hear the Hungarian Radio 2’s, or Petőfi Radio’s annual concert, the Szimfonik Live 3.0.

On this concert 30 popular artists will show their hits, what will be escorted by the Hungarian Radio’s symphonic band. The result will be the shake of classic and pop music.

The first time when the MTVA showed the Szimfonik Live was in 2011 on the 0 day of popular Sziget Festival. The initiative got huge success, so the organizers decided to make a tradition from the concert, and the interested audience is getting bigger and bigger in every year.

The 30 artists, who will give concert, are the Hungarian pop music life’s most outstanding members. Nonetheless we warmly recommend: visit the concert or the whole day program to meet better for example the Hungarian music life. Between the artists there will be band or solo, rock, reggae, pop, alternative and hip hop, so everybody could find the perfect program for themselves, even if only for one or two songs.

If you will be in Budapest on 7 September 2013 on the Public Media Day, visit the Millenáris park and enjoy the whole day cool shows, programs and exhibitions!

Szimfonik Live 3.0

September 7th
Millenáris Park

Robert Capa exhibition at the National Museum

Posted on August 26, 2013April 8, 2026 by Budapest Guide

Autumn is almost here and Budapest will welcome visitors with great programs and exhibitions. If you want some culture, you definitely should visit the Hungarian National Museum, where you can see the famous photographer, Robert Capa’s exhibition between 18 September 2013 and 12 January 2014.

Friedmann Endre was born in 1913 in Budapest. He started to pay attention for photography in early 30s as a hobby, but he realized that it could be great livelihood. Before the Second World War he studied journalism in Berlin, but he had to leave the city because of his Jewish origin. After that he moved back to Budapest for a while, but because of the harder and harder anti-Semitism he immigrated to Paris. His life was hard in the French capital too, so he decided to devote his life to photography, he changed his name to Robert Capa after his nickname, “Shark” (Shark in Hungarian is Cápa). The new name brought referrals to him and shortly he became Capa, the famous documentary and war correspondent. The Hungarian photographer travelled around five war places with his machine: the Spanish civil war, the Chinese inquisition of Japan, the Second World War’s European places, the first Arab-Israel conflict and Indochina. He died on the last place, when he stepped on a grenade during work.

The National Museum would like to show Capa’s all habits, passions and life style between 18 September 2013 and 12 January 2014.

Robert Capa exhibition

September 18th – January 12th
Hungarian National Museum

Public Media Day 2013

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Budapest Guide

The Public Media day is a perfect family program in Budapest at the Millenáris on 7 September 2013 from 9.30 at the morning to late night. The programs will be in Hungarian and they will be about the Hungarian Public Media, the Hungarian Television and the Hungarian Radio. Nonetheless, do not hesitate and visit the Millenáris, if you will be in Budapest on exactly the Public Media day, because you could find the perfect for your family and yourself between the great programs and exhibitions.

Between the children programs there will be the meeting with the Hungarian Television’s iconic tale figures, and the visit of the tale heroes’ home. Music lovers could karaoke or listen concerts. One of the most interesting exhibitions you could see 200 photos from the history of Hungarian Television in 60s, 60s and 70s, which are from the MTVA Archive. Besides the photos you could see archive films too. Visitors could see the Hungarian Television’s costume store; moreover they could wear these costumes and take pictures for memory. Those, whom wouldn’t bother, the programs will be in Hungarian, could see the Hungarian Television’s today most popular shows in live. As the crown of the day you could hear 30 popular Hungarian artists’ hits with the escort of the Hungarian Radio’s symphonic band.

This day would be a perfect program opportunity for those, who will be in Budapest on 7 September 2013. Have fun!

Public Media Day 2013
September 7th

Bigot Pavilon exhibition at the Museum of Applied Arts

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Budapest Guide

We mostly recommend our next article to those who love to admire. We are talking about an exhibition at the beautiful and symbolic museum of Budapest, the Museum of Applied Arts. Visitors could see a part of the museum’s 2013 project of Art Nouveau with the title Bigot Pavilon.

Everything started in 1900 when they organized the “Art Nouveau World Expo” in Paris. The Museum of Applied Arts director was Radisics Jenő, who bought several beautiful pieces here. The bought things included Alexander Bigot’s several works, architectural specimens, like ashlars, fireplace frames, plastic decorated columns, consoles and friezes. The bought objects have been in the Museum of Decorative Art’s (Applied Arts) warehouse and in addition to the XX century’s audience in Paris nobody could see them – until now.

The museum decided to release Radasics’s best purchases; moreover they completed it with a drinking set what made in the Bigot’s ceramics factory around 1900. The drinking set’s form, incredibly beautiful gloss, demanding silver socket evoke luxury and wealth. Actually the museum could buy this piece with the government’s help in the end of 2012. Between the exhibited objects there are building ceramics, what you can see on secession buildings’ and palaces’ frontage in Paris today too.

If you spend some day in Budapest and you are fascinated by the Museum of Applied Arts building, feel free yourself and check this and the other exhibitions too!

Bigot Pavilon exhibition
Museum of Applied Arts
Until February 24th, 2014

Andrea Bocelli Budapest 2013

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Budapest Guide

Attention, Ladies and Gentlemen, music lovers near and far! A real celebrity will arrive to the capital of Hungary, to Budapest, on 9 November 2013, to fill the Budapest Sportarena’s stage with love emotion and music. This man is no other, but the Italian romantic hero, Andrea Bocelli.

Bocelli was born in 1958 in Italy. As most people surely know, the talented tenor is blind, caused by a hereditary disease. This tragedy didn’t ruin Bocelli’s plans to reach their desire. After several instruments he tried the God-given instrument in his throat, his voice and he found his own way. When he was young he could pay the singing master, because he played on piano in bars and he studied law studies in Pisa. Bocelli’s style originates from the master’s feeling about pop music and opera and the result is the mix of these two types. With this shake Bocelli became famous in classis and pop music circles either.

Bocelli’s last album released in the start of year 2013, January, the title is Passione and it is full with beautiful love songs. The Italian tenor worked together with famous stars like Jennifer Lopez or Nelly Furtado.
Hungary is very lucky, because Bocelli usually gives only a few concerts in a year and in 2013 Budapest will be one of the stations, so visitors could hear the old classics and the new miracles too in live on 9 November 2013 at the Papp László Sportarena. Have fun!

Andrea Bocelli Budapest concert

November 9th, 2013
Budapest Sportarena

Tickets: Viagogo