The Present

The main activity of the band is playing Csangó music from Moldva. Still other regions’ music appear regularly in our repertoire, logically mostly from the flutist traditions of different areas. Somogy, Gyimes, Mezőség, and nowadays some tunes from the Balcan, from Bukovina and from Estonia.

The band is one of the most active groups among the ’second generation’ of folk bands. Has regular dance-houses in FMH for over 10 years, and from the January of 2008 the band also plays at the most crowded folk-event of Budapest in Gödör Club.

After a longer pause we restarted our dance-house for children in FMH from the January of 2009. Besides we are regularly invited to play for children at different places, kindergardens, schools, etc.

Besides playing in Dance-houses and at concerts, the band also cooperates with Dance Ensembles to accompany their choreographs. We have a close relation to the Alföld Dance Ensemble of Csongrád, we have accompanied Jászság Népi Együttes of Jászberény or Seremoj Dance Ensemble of Budapest.

Last but not least we are also active as a concert band. These occasions are great possibilities to leave the fuctionality of dance-music and afford some musical experiments. As a result, some examples can be heard on our first LP ’Csángó utca’, from 2006. We also cooperate with some members of Pannonia Allstarts Ska Orchestra and with Patrick Rudant and Aliocha Regnard (Carnets de Voyages) from France.

The Beginning

A band was formed by five enthusiastic young students of the Hungarian Folk Music School in Óbuda. Namely: Katalin Klopp (vocal), András Benkő (kobsa), Szilárd Horváth (flutes), Bálint Kárpáthegyi (drum) and Tamás Novinszki (flutes). They were helped by their teacher, Sándor Balogh.

As a memory of this period in 1999 an MC was published by the title ’Kövecses víz közepibe’. As years passed, Csurrento band bacame active part of the dance-house movement and the folk life of Hungary, competitions, festivals, concerts came after another. Due to some member-changes and also some increasing, by the beginning of 2006 the present band got together.

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