Szabó Balázs Bandája - Day I

The multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Balázs Szabó and his band are regular guests at major festivals and clubs in Hungary and abroad, their concerts are always a truly special experience and are always sold out. Balázs has come a long way to the big stages: he started his performing career as a solo guitarist, worked as a street theatre artist and as a puppeteer for years. In 2009, he founded the Szabó Balázs Band, which in recent years has grown to become one of Hungary's most popular bands, and he has achieved this by drawing on the world of Hungarian folk music, chanson, pop, rock, funk and chamber music, and adding elements of chamber music to create a completely unique, boundary-breaking and genre-building sound. Their work has a strong tradition of setting poetry to music, and in addition to their own compositions, they have dedicated a major album to songs from the poems of János Pilinszky and Miklós Radnóti, and have also set music to other poets (Krisztián Grecsó, Ferenc Szemlér). They have released five studio albums, a live album and a concert film, and their 2014 album Life to Go won the Fonogram Award for Alternative Album of the Year. Among other awards, Balázs Szabó received the prize for "Male Artist of the Year" at the 2016 Petőfi Music Awards.