Epona in Budapest Castle

Vienna, Austria has the Spanish Riding School at the Hofburg, a traditional riding school for Lipizzan horses. The riding school was first named during the Austrian Empire in 1572 and the horses original studs,which used to develop the breed was Lipizza, now called Lipica, near Trieste in modern Slovenia, which gave its name to the breed, nowadays they are breed in Austria.
The hungarian Spanish Riding School of Hungarian  Royal Guards was established already in 1939.They regularly held special shows in front of a huge audience, for example in the riding school built especially for this purpose at the Castle of Buda.However, the riding school could only operate for a short period of time, because history put an end to the activity of the riders and horses. Not only the riders and the horses but also the buildings of the riding school disappeared from the Castle.
Nowadays we have got Epona, which is called to recall this old tradition and Budapest has the Spanish School on its style too, just like Vienna.
The horses are imported andalusian horses, which are of high value and all of them are extremely well-trained.The Andalusian, also known as the Pure Spanish Horse or PRE (Pura Raza Española), is a horse breed developed in the Iberian Peninsula. Its ancestors have been present on the Iberian Peninsula for thousands of years.The breed was used as a tool of diplomacy by the Spanish government, and kings across Europe rode and owned Spanish horses.
The school started their programs in 2009 at the Buda Castle, it has got 60 beautiful horses and several talented riders from the secondary school at the disposal of Epona at the moment.In the show partecipating 16 horses.

From the 5th of May they are dancing at the Castle of Buda,
weekly on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 21am.
Tickets to buy in Ticket express and at the Castle of Buda.
Adult ticket is 6000 HUF.
Students and retired  enjoy 50% preference.

TINARIWEN – Sons of the desert in Budapest at Zöld Pardon tonight!

 

Read their story, written by Andy Morgan:

http://www.andymorganwrites.com/tinariwen-sons-of-the-desert/

Bikini concert 18.07.2011 at Zöld Pardon, Budapest

The band was formed in 1982 by singer Feró Nagy and guitarist József Vedres after the disband of Beatrice. Bassist Alajos Németh, his brother, drummer Gábor Németh and guitarist Gábor Szűcs Antal joined them and formed Bikini.
In 1985 Feró Nagy left the band and singer Lajos D. Nagy.This caused a great change in Bikini's style and image. During the late 1980s the band became a professional and talented team mostly playing enjoyable pop rock and hard rock music. Bikini released several albums and made several successful tours. They finally achieved stardom in 1988 with the album "Ha volna még időm...".
The band continued to release successful albums in the early 1990s. In 1992 at the peak of their career, they disbanded. They were reunited in 1997 after a five year absence from the music world. In 2009, they released a best-of double album, with all of their greatest hits re-recorded with the current line-up. Currently, they're preparing for the next album - besides touring extensively in Hungary and the Hungarian-populated regions in the neighboring countries. This concert is called to show their newest album.

Current lineup: Lajos D. Nagy (vocals); Péter Lukács (guitars); Alajos Németh (bass); Szabolcs Bördén (keyboards); Dénes Markovics (saxophone, keyboards); Viktor Mihalik (drums).

The concert starts at 8 p.m., entrance fee 400,- Forint (1,5 Euro)

Zöld Pardon (“Green Pardon”), or simply ZP, is an outside pleasure-ground near the Buda bridgehead of the Petőfi Bridge.

WAMP design fair today at Erzsébet tér

It’s a community event taking place once or more than once a month in the hub of Budapest where emerging Hungarian designers showcase their works. A place where design meets urban hungarians, tourists and ex pats. It is also a meeting place for creative and trend setter young people. WAMP opens up to the world once a year, and invites the greatest talents and design professionals from around the globe to showcase their work  

and talent in Budapest.

VAJDAHUNYADVÁR SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2011

 

HUF 3500 (€15) July 18, Monday 8.30 pm

Rain check day: July 19, 8.30 pm

Budapest Klezmer Band
Artistic director: Ferenc Jávori
Guest: Lilla Polyák – voice


Traditional and contemporary klezmer music, extracts from musicals, arrangements

Klezmer (Yiddish כליזמר or קלעזמער, pl כליזמר ,כליזמרים, from Hebrew כלי זמר) is a musical tradition of the Ashkenazic Jews of Eastern Europe. Although the genre has its origins in Eastern Europe, the particular form nowadays known as klezmer developed in the United States in the milieu of Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants who arrived there between 1880 and 1924.

The term klezmer comes from a combination of Hebrew words: kley, meaning "a useful or prepared instrument, tool, or utensil" and zemer, meaning "to make music"; leading to k'li zemer כְּלִי זֶמֶר, literally "vessels of song" = "musical instrument"), later it was also called as Freilech music (Yiddish, literally "Happy music"). Klezmer is easily identifiable by its characteristic expressive melodies, reminiscent of the human voice, complete with laughing and weeping. This is not a coincidence; the style is meant to imitate khazone and paraliturgical singing. Lot of movies used the music as subject or background, one of the famoust ones:

Amazon-Roads to the Indians

14/07/2011 - 8/4/2012
  Museum of Etnography, Budapest

The exhibition opens on Thursday, today! at 17 o'clock. Curator Vilma Főzy.

The exhibition is the result of a cooperation between the Hungarian Natural History Museum and Greenpeace the theme of creation is made up of three units. The exhibition is based on the collection of Lajos Boglár, who used to be once a museum staff member and travelled in the 1960s and 70s around Amazonia searching the ancient forests and the traditional lifestyle. The exhibition called  to illustrate the fact that in the "Paradise" is only  to the environment well adapted, continuously on land working, small groups were able to survive.

The fact is that still nowadays there are calls that "untouched" population are discovered in the forest. The last famous picture is bellow.

Millenáris picnic

Every year the park offers different kind of open air programs, this year the picnic starts
on the 14th of July till 27th of August.
Everyday there is something happening in the park of the Millenaris: musicians, dancers, actors and handicraft workshops provide endless programmes for those who seek entertainment besides relaxing.

http://millenaris.hu/theatre-dance/