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world music, jazz, popular music
Warsaw Village Band
25 March 2023, Saturday
7 pm - 9 pm
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Produced by Müpa Budapest
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Join us and relive our most memorable concerts and performances!

We are reopening the Müpa Budapest virtual concert hall: As part of the Müpa Home series, we will one again be offering online broadcasts free of charge. In addition to live webcasts, we have lined up earlier recordings of defining performances at Müpa Budapest. Tune in and relive the most exciting productions in the comfort of your own home!

We look forward to welcoming you in front of your screen on the date of the event!

You can watch these performances on our website, Facebook-page and YouTube channel.

'Remember your past, but keep living in the future!' was the Burning Spear quote that appeared on the Warsaw Village Band album Uprooting. This is by no means just a catchy slogan, since the Warsaw Village Band has always strived to find in its performances the common voice of city and village culture, and past and the future, archaic and modern tools, and east and west. These buzzwords might sound hackneyed in world music today, but the Warsaw Village Band is truly fluent in its use as required by their main musical direction, trance. Since the band's formation in 1998, it has consistently cultivated 'the tradition of the next generation', using archaic folk instruments - the cimbalom, hurdy-gurdy, hand drum, and the 'suka' fiddle dating back to the 17th century - all effortlessly paired with dub electronica and hip hop. In tandem with the unique instrumentation, their magic lies in the powerful female vocals. It is enough for them to through up an ancient melody and 'grab hold of it', improvising on its motifs until they achieve 'lift off'. On their album Nord, they turn to the north in collaboration with the Swedish cult favourite Hedningarna, while on their newest disc, Sun Celebration, they follow the path of the Sun, injecting the spiritualism of Sufi music into Warsaw trance in the company of Mercedes Peón from Galicia, Kayhan Kalhor from Iran, Ustad Liaquat Ali Khan from India and the DHOAD Gypsies of Rajasthan. Irresistibly and more persistently than the Sun.

Commissioned by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the Polska Music programme and POLSKA 100 - the international cultural program celebrating 100 years of Polish Independence. Financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-annual programme NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-2021.

This recording was made at a concert held at Müpa Budapest on 21 September 2018.

Presented by: Müpa Budapest

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Müpa Budapest can be accessed by car from Soroksári út, Könyves Kálmán körút and Rákóczi Bridge.

Using public transport by the trams 1, 2, 24, by the busses 54 and 15 and by the HÉV - suburban railway H7.

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1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1. | +36 1 555 3000 Opening hours | Map

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