In the old days, a “téka” in Hungarian was a storage place in both aristocratic residences and peasant houses where people stored their valuables and important documents. The “téka” prevented others from accessing them while remaining usefully to hand when required. The Téka Band was formed thirty years ago, and they chose this name because they wanted to preserve the greatest values and most developed treasures of Hungarian folk music. To preserve but not to conceal. Quite the opposite! Téka fr...equently performs in Hungary and abroad to broaden the appeal of this music which was transmitted among village folk from father to son. In those days before radio and television, there were no sound recordings, the villagers made their own instruments and played them themselves, they sang and they danced. Since then, life has changed immensely; there is less to distinguish villages from cities while television has opened a window on the entire world. Nor is there any requirement for home made instruments. But there remains a need – if not a greater need than ever before – for musicians who can gather and preserve these valuable treasures and traditions of old peasant music. The Téka Band will be offering some of these beauties at these events.
Parking information
We wish to inform you that in the event that Müpa Budapest's underground garage and outdoor car park are operating at full capacity, it is advisable to plan for increased waiting times when you arrive. In order to avoid this, we recommend that you depart for our events in time, so that you you can find the ideal parking spot quickly and smoothly and arrive for our performance in comfort. The Müpa Budapest underground garage gates will be operated by an automatic number plate recognition system. Parking is free of charge for visitors with tickets to any of our paid performances on that given day. The detailed parking policy of Müpa Budapest is available here.
Safe ticket purchase
Dear Visitors, please note that only tickets purchased from the Müpa website and official ticket offices are guaranteed to be valid. To avoid possible inconvenience, we suggest buying tickets to our performances and concerts via the mupa.hu website, the Interticket national network (jegy.hu) or at our official ticket offices.