Bagossy Brothers Company
Founded in May 2013 and still playing with an unchanged line-up, the band's popularity has grown rapidly. With their energetic, audience-oriented concerts, the Bagossy Brothers Company quickly became one of the most popular bands in Transylvania and later in the entire Carpathian Basin.
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The group has released 5 major albums, 1 symphonic concert album, 1 EP and a special Christmas album. All of the band's albums are multi-gold, while the 2019 album Veled Utazom (With You I Travel) is six times platinum, the highest selling album in Hungary, and the 2021 album Turning the World is a quadruple platinum album. In addition, two books, a film and countless music videos and other material accompany their career.
The band released two albums in 2023. After the fifth album, Angels In The Parking Lot, released in the summer, a special Christmas album entitled Feast was released in December, featuring original songs and special arrangements of church and folk songs typical of the Gyergyó Basin.
The band's career has also been honoured with numerous awards, including four Petőfi Music Awards (Acoustic Concert of the Year, Band of the Year, Video of the Year and Artist of the Year through Norbi Bagossy), two Fonogram Awards (Recording of the Year) and the biggest music award in Transylvania, the Most Beautiful Transylvanian Hungarian Song.
In 2020, the band became the most popular band in Hungary according to the Due Media Research Network poll, while in the same year they were the only Hungarian band to be included in Spotify's annual TOP10 list in both the orchestral and song categories.
The band has now filled every major concert venue in Hungary, including Europe's 7th largest indoor arena, the MVM Dome.
MVM Dome
MVM Dome is the seventh largest indoor event venue in Europe. Its capacity for sports events and concerts is significantly higher than that of the Budapest Sports Arena. It has 20,022 seats; a total of 50,000 square metres of floor space; innovative, rearrangeable spaces for many indoor sports (handball, basketball and volleyball, futsal, ice hockey, tennis, skating) as well as certain athletic, equestrian and motorcycle competitions, and even swimming competitions and water polo matches in the mobile pool. Through the six entrances to the building, spectators can enter the arena’s interior using eight escalators, leading to the walk-through grandstands accessible on three levels. The structure of the building’s exterior is reminiscent of muscle fibres: the light strips placed on the outward-leaning, elliptical sections not only embrace the building, but the light shows, programmed using various colours, appear to set the entire building in motion. There is a 600 square metre display on the façade of the building. The Main Entrance leads to an impressive foyer, where visitors will be greeted by a grandiose hanging light installation of 848 handmade glass tubes. The programmable sports lighting is also suitable for HDTV broadcasts of the highest-level world competitions, as well as for super-slow-motion recordings due to flicker free technology. The lighting system also plays an important role in the events and concerts, as it is suitable for changing the colour temperature of the auditorium, which means that the lighting functions can be changed without rearranging the arena, only through the pre-programmed lighting controls. This design is the first and is unique in Europe for luminaires of this power. A central display (cube) provides information in the auditorium during the events.