Budapest in a Time Machine

Jó reggelt kívánok (Good Morning). Today we will go back to Budapest, and explore the city in a today of the 1970s, the 1990s and around 2017. Lets start with another beautiful article, which travels us through the time zones of Hungarian Gypsy Romany and folk music. This is Songline's Rough Guide through Hungarian music:

https://www.songlines.co.uk/explore/guides-and-lists/the-rough-guide-to-world-music-hungary

If you manage to ready through the end, you will have started exploring the new Hungarian folk music revival in the 1970s: Tanchaz. It is a development from the Verbunk music.

Watch here some tanchaz in practice - interesting even if you don't understand Hungarian language:

Here we can visit the world of Tanchaz to the deep end: read about the development through the years, the meaningful musicians, including some lovely photographs:

http://folklife.hu/roots-to-revival/living-tradition/tanchaz-method/the-tanchaz-movement/

More fun though it is to watch, specially if practised in this less conventional way:

Before leaving Budapest, here some pictures of my own Budapest travels.

Here my favourites from my Budapest trip in 1992:

One can see that normal sightseeing is not my favourite activity, and this does certainly not improve with increasing age: Here my favourites from 2017:

Lets add some live music from Hungary, performed by a Romany musician, but does this make it into Hungarian Gypsy Music?

Before we leave Budapest, lets do 2 things:

We have a tiny detour to the Tanchaz scene in London:

http://hunique.co.uk/

This what you can expect there:

And we experience some more hands-on Hungarian music by learning another piece ourselves: 

Haragszom a Töködre (ask an Hungarian for the translation... or watch the video)

Jó estét and good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen, I hope you had some joy here today, and lets see where I take you tomorrow...