RITMO FESZTIVÁL

4 stages,
28 concerts,
artists from 25 countries

13-16 October
@ Müpa

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Budapest Ritmo playlist

Concerts

Tickets

Opening Concert

13 October // Thursday
2100-3900 HUF

Day1

14 October // Friday
2000 HUF

Day2

15 October // Saturday
3000 HUF

Day3

16 October // Sunday
3000 HUF

Ritmo Pass

14-16 October // 3 days
7000 HUF

Conference

About

Budapest RITMO is a festival of rare encounters, the latest and biggest world music event based in Hungary.

Inspired by the success of WOMEX15, organizer Hangvető set out jointly with CAFe Budapest to make the city the world music hub of the region, open to the world. At RITMO the meeting of cultures creates a special energy, by nature renewable. A lucky audience get to sample this year’s WOMEX lineup: six artists perform a week before the biggest international world music event. Exciting meetings, special collaborations, music crossing borders and local treasures in Budapest, where else?

Stages @ MÜPA Budapest

Festival Theatre

The ideal stage for immersing oneself in refined beauty: the Festival Stage at Budapest Ritmo hosts musical journeys, unusual meetings of master musicians and an ample array of cultures. The queen of sevdah, Amira Medunjanin; the acclaimed duo of Vardan Hovanissian and Emre Gültekin; the three folk divas, Ági Szalóki, Mónika Lakatos and Dina Pandzarisz will all perform, not to give a full list of the excellent performers we will get to meet.

Atrium Showcase Stage

There’s a good chance you’ll hear impressive performances at the Showcase Stage: it is dedicated to display up and coming bands from Eastern Europe, who will definitely use this chance to strut their stuff. On Saturday Hungarian musicians handpicked by the Hangvető team will show what they got, on Sunday bands from Eastern Europe selected by experts will play to slay.

CAFE Tent

The tent stage is where you can really get off at Budapest Ritmo. Expect the same vibe that made WOMEX15 so memorable: an international buzz coupled with bouncy beats: Finnish folk hop /Tuuletar/, rock & kuduro /Throes and the Shine/, club sound & mbira /Kondi Band/ to name just a few of the gigs that will make you move.

Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

Müpa's world-class concert hall with supreme acoustics hosts the grand opening concert of Budapest Ritmo.

Accreditation

Bartók Sources

The Opening Concert of Budapest Ritmo

The festive opening concert pays tribute to the genius of Béla Bartók, and the endless inspiration of folk music.

A musical journey takes the audience to the time and place of Bartók’s field collections: a world where folk music was present in every moment of daily life, as well as the sacred rites of communities. The concert presents a unique selection of Hungarian and Romanian tunes from Transylvania, Serbian and Slovakian folk treasures, and the Bartók compositions inspired by them.

Artists: József Balog, Szilvia Bognár, Buda Folk Band, Ifju Szivek Dance Theatre, Söndörgő, Vujcsics, Antal Zalai

Voices of Ghosts

A HUNGARIAN-NORWEGIAN
WORLD MUSIC EXCHANGE PROGRAMME
WITH ROMA AND SAMI MUSICIANS IN THE FOCUS