As Márta Sebestyén sums up the line-up for the evening: “The concept is to showcase a generation that grew up during the decades after I did and which managed to grow ‘addicted’ to folk music in the same way I did when Béla Halmos and Feri Sebő embraced me. [...] I asked my colleagues’ talented teenage musician children – along with some of my own contemporaries – to come and make music with me.” From Erdőfű, the obvious point of connection is Péter Éri’s two children, with whom she will perform a block of Hungarian folk music. The songstress has likewise known the members of Söndörgő since they were born, and will do some Greek, Bulgarian and Serbian tunes with them. But there will be plenty of everything else that Márta Sebestyén remains famous for too, including early music with Judit Andrejszki and viola da gamba player Zsolt Szabó and rock opera excerpts with organist Szabolcs Szamosi. Alongside the Saint Ephraim Male Choir, as another example, she will perform an arrangement of music by Tamás Cseh, and there will also be an exciting world music and dance production with dancer Dóra Bittner Meenakshi, with the members of the Palatka Gypsy Band and her Irish friends Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny also coming for the show. It will be gala of the very best.

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