Szabó Balázs Bandája 15
The Balázs Szabó Band will be performing for the first time in the new year at the Akvárium, as they celebrate their 15th birthday this year with a big birthday concert in the NagyHall on 19 April. In addition to the most important songs of the band's oeuvre, the band is also preparing a surprise for the event, and the jury will be opened by a band from the Highlands, Jóvilágvan, who will be their guest on this special evening.
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Balázs Szabó is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician (including guitar, violin and cavalier), puppet actor and storyteller who, after leaving the band Suhancos in 2009, realised his dream of founding his own formation, the Szabó Balázs Banda. The Fonogram-winning Banda (along with Balázs: Soma Acsády - bass guitar; László Ferencz - drums; Sebestyén Harangozó - guitar, vocals; Mátyás Ölveti - cello, vocals) has become one of the most popular bands in the country in recent years, and has achieved this by creating a completely unique, boundary-breaking and genre-building sound from the world of Hungarian folk music, which is fed by the chanson world, with pop, rock, funk elements and chamber music flavouring. 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).
Akvárium
As they describe themselves, it is Budapest's most frequented venue, which is also multifunctional. Akvárium is great for award ceremonies, afternoon coffees and, most importantly, concerts, thanks to the well-picked, cross-genre selection.