Snétberger - New Generation

21 November 2011, 7.30 pm - 10.00 pm
Bartók Béla National Concert Hall

Ferenc Snétberger – acoustic and electric guitar, Orgon Albert – voice, percussion, Gábor Kovács – keyboard, Toni Snétberger – drum, Ernő Bodóczki – bass guitar

From the very outset Snétberger New Generation have, as their name suggests, drawn on the culture of the new generation. Snétberger “accidentally” discovered on YouTube the duo of Orgon Albert and Gábor Kovács, Jazzmin, which perform Albert Nat King Cole and various standards in their unique style.
After 30 years on the stage, Snétberger has energetically turned to young people and founded the Snétberger Music Talent Centre in Felsőörs, a small village north of Lake Balaton, which opened in the summer of 2010.
With a wealth of experience gained through decades of performing together with the “big oldies”, including numerous world stars such as Bobby McFerrin, Dhaffer Youssef, Trilok Gurtu, Richard Bona, Anthony Jackson, Arild Andersen, Paolo Vinaccia, Patrice Heral and Paolo Fresuand, as well as all of the authorities on the Hungarian jazz scene, he is today teaching, and playing together with, teenagers at Felsőörs – even if for the time being they are lacking an audience.
Perhaps it can be put down to the fresh inspiration drawn from these young people that while New Generation, Snétberger’s new band making its début at the Palace of Arts, conjures up that characteristic “Snétbergerian sound” of the acoustic guitar and its bossa nova, samba, Latin, jazz, classical and Roma features, it nevertheless includes, once again after a long period of time, the electric guitar. Reared on Ando Drom, Ogon Albert sings and plays percussions (in any case, Snétberger’s melody-focused music is best sung), with the unique brand of Gábor Kovács’s electronic keyboard playing, to the rhythms of the drums of Snétberger’s son Toni Snétberger.
The bass guitar is played by Ernő Bodóczki, aged twenty, who met Snétberger at the summer music course, and has recently been admitted to the Music Academy on a course in classical music.
Some other young musicians of the Music Talent Centre will make a surprise appearance at the concert.
Snétberger New Generation is yet another exciting episode and musical journey, of the 54-year-old guitar artist which, at the same time, poses a challenge to the musicians he plays with, as well as to the youths about to embark on an brilliant career in music.