The Roma Tent

The Roma Tent - which is unique in its genre and is also a hungaricum at the same time - is waiting for its guests with colourful, versatile programs every year since 2002. We are working on introducing old favourites by adding some new, previously unseen productions. One of the highlights of this year is going to be the circus from Rajasthan called Kawa Musical Circus which will launch a colourful international program for Sziget-people to see every day from 6 pm, before concerts start, right in front of the Roma Tent.
One of the main focus points of Sziget festival, EU Trio will be present at the Roma Tent as well. Roma Tent adds three productions to the series of EU Trio programs which are connected to Belgium. On 11th and 12th August, DJ Gaetano from Brussels-based Balkan Trafik will make you dance like crazy. Rekontra band, playing traditional Hungarian and world music, invited the Belgian gipsy primate Tcha Limberger. The new trio founded precisely for this occasion features artists like the Belgian Ghalia Benali, Leonor Moro from Spain and the musicians of the Hungarian Romano Drom band. It is a great honour that the star of ladino music, the singer from Isael Yasmin Levy will perform in the Roma Tent, introducing this wonderful music based on Spanish-Jewish traditions and rooted in Andalusian flamenco to the audience of the festival. Talking about Jewish music, now we must return from the south to Eastern-Europe, as our guest will be Pressburger Klezmer Band, the only band playing this sort o music is Slovakia. We are about to celebrate a premier, too. Denmark has not yet shown up on the stage of Roma Tent, so this year Denmark's favourite band Klezmofobia will play on Sziget Festival. We did not want to miss one single genre of gypsy music. We are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Django Reinhardt, so we invited the outstanding synth gypsy musicians, the Dutch Prisor Jazz Band that operates with a great violinist, Tim Kliphuis. The fact that Romania is a francophone country cannot be denied. The bands playing this year all have some sort of a connection to France. Actress and singer Rona Hartner who may be familiar to the audience from Tony Gatlif's film Gadzso Dilo, is living in Paris at the moment, and she brings her gypsy band to Hungary this time. Even though Alexandra, the accordionist and singer of Nadara is French, she chose Romania as her home and is specialized in Translyvanian music in the first place. The musicians of Fanfara Vagabontu carried the fame of Romanian brassy bands straight to Marseille, their chosen home town. The second brassy band consist of the French musicians of  Živeli Orkestar, however they have remained faithful to the traditional Serbian sound, not forgetting great improvisations and hot rhythms, together with an outstanding Sebian singer, Suzana Djordjevic. When talking of our Eastern European performers, it is essential say a words about Čaci Vorba who play traditional gypsy music. Even the meaning of their name speaks volumes of their attitude: honest word. Hudaki, coming straight from Ukraine play czardas, polka, heart-warming ballads and tricky violin-music, basically showing all aspects of gypsy music.

Of course we cannot forget about local bands this year either, bands that represent each and every musical tendency from traditional to modern. The festival is opened by the gypsy folkdance group of Kalocsa, and there will be a number of other great performers such as: Etnorom, Karaván Família, Khamoro and the band merging acoustic music with electronic music Napra. Famous dulcimer-artists The Roma Tent
The Roma Tent - which is unique in its genre and is also a hungaricum at the same time - is waiting for its guests with colourful, versatile programs every year since 2002. We are working on introducing old favourites by adding some new, previously unseen productions. One of the highlights of this year is going to be the circus from Rajasthan called Kawa Musical Circus which will launch a colourful international program for Sziget-people to see every day from 6 pm, before concerts start, right in front of the Roma Tent.
One of the main focus points of Sziget festival, EU Trio will be present at the Roma Tent as well. Roma Tent adds three productions to the series of EU Trio programs which are connected to Belgium. On 11th and 12th August, DJ Gaetano from Brussels-based Balkan Trafik will make you dance like crazy. Rekontra band, playing traditional Hungarian and world music, invited the Belgian gipsy primate Tcha Limberger. The new trio founded precisely for this occasion features artists like the Belgian Ghalia Benali, Leonor Moro from Spain and the musicians of the Hungarian Romano Drom band. It is a great honour that the star of ladino music, the singer from Isael Yasmin Levy will perform in the Roma Tent, introducing this wonderful music based on Spanish-Jewish traditions and rooted in Andalusian flamenco to the audience of the festival. Talking about Jewish music, now we must return from the south to Eastern-Europe, as our guest will be Pressburger Klezmer Band, the only band playing this sort o music is Slovakia. We are about to celebrate a premier, too. Denmark has not yet shown up on the stage of Roma Tent, so this year Denmark's favourite band Klezmofobia will play on Sziget Festival. We did not want to miss one single genre of gypsy music. We are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Django Reinhardt, so we invited the outstanding synth gypsy musicians, the Dutch Prisor Jazz Band that operates with a great violinist, Tim Kliphuis. The fact that Romania is a francophone country cannot be denied. The bands playing this year all have some sort of a connection to France. Actress and singer Rona Hartner who may be familiar to the audience from Tony Gatlif's film Gadzso Dilo, is living in Paris at the moment, and she brings her gypsy band to Hungary this time. Even though Alexandra, the accordionist and singer of Nadara is French, she chose Romania as her home and is specialized in Translyvanian music in the first place. The musicians of Fanfara Vagabontu carried the fame of Romanian brassy bands straight to Marseille, their chosen home town. The second brassy band consist of the French musicians of  Živeli Orkestar, however they have remained faithful to the traditional Serbian sound, not forgetting great improvisations and hot rhythms, together with an outstanding Sebian singer,Suzana Djordjevic. When talking of our Eastern European performers, it is essential say a words about Čaci Vorba who play traditional gypsy music. Even the meaning of their name speaks volumes of their attitude: honest word. Hudaki, coming straight from Ukraine play czardas, polka, heart-warming ballads and tricky violin-music, basically showing all aspects of gypsy music.

Of course we cannot forget about local bands this year either, bands that represent each and every musical tendency from traditional to modern. The festival is opened by the gypsy folkdance group of Kalocsa, and there will be a number of other great performers such as: Etnorom, Karaván Família, Khamoro and the band merging acoustic music with electronic music Napra. Famous dulcimer-artists. are going to perform too, Kálmám Balogh and the band Cimbaliband. There will even be an album premier gig by Söndörgő. The band even has some guests playing with them: the primate of Mohács-based Tambura zenekar Kátya Tompos who plays on their album as well, moreover Antal Kovács, leader of Romano Drom will be there, too.  

After the gigs, famous DJ's will make you dance until dawn. We pay attention to inviting DJ's that love and understand gypsy music and are working hard on making it popular - it's in fact the sixth time that we invite such DJ's. There will be an international set: DJ Gaetano from Belgium, DJ Jutasi from Hungary, DJ Tsigaravano + No Sikiriki from Switzerland, and DJ Vino Dilo from France. They are all residents of the Europe-wide popular „Balkan Beats” styled parties.

meduza

Meduza is the underground electronic music venue of Sziget, and it's giving its best this year, too. There will be a great number of famous international performers and of course the Hungarian underground will be presented, too. You can find nearly each genre of electronic dance music at the venue: hiphop, dubstep, drumandbass, house, breakbeat, or new disco all play an important role this year. One of the most interesting colours of the venue will be presented on Friday and Saturday night when British act 3D Disco will perform, and their audiovisual production will be accompanied by a three dimensional screening. The interesting thing about the performance is going to be that every visitor gets a pair of 3D glasses at the entrance, uniforming people hungry for this sort of performance for an hour. The venue meduza has a 30x6 meter wide unique screening surface, and besides 3D Disco, the popular British formation The Smokeeaters will also present us a unique audiovisual performance. Perhaps one of the most important performers of this year's meduza will be the Belgian duo Aeroplane – they will definitely become one of the most popular acts of the next few years.
Wednesday will be the day of residents and organizers of Rewind, TEST and Real Your Nature this year. The day's international performer will be the group Club Autonomic, thus D-Bridge, Instra:mental, SP:MC. Our favourite artist this year is the French producer-DJane Flore who makes music in several different styles and you can definitely hear this versatility in her sets. The lady from Lyon will be accompanied by legendary former member of London Posse, Rodney P. The venue's program will be spiced up by one of the most energetic performers of meduza: the Dutch Baskerville formation. On the last day of Sziget, meduza will be the home of 4/4. Star-performer of the day will be HRDVSION from Canada or Nathan Jonson.

Budapest Jazz Club – Amphitheatrum Stage

This year we merged the two stages and their programs. Headliners of the stage in the evening will consist of artists popular all over the world, but not yet known in Hungary that much. On the other hand, the stage will give space to the greatest artists of the Hungarian and international jazz scene. You can find here Flat Earth Society, Chapelier Fou and Renata Rosa, La Mal Coiffée, Hjaltalin and An Pierlé & White Velvet. Some names from the list of outstanding Hungarian jazz icons: Harcsa Veronika Quartet, Barabás Lőrinc and friends, Fábián Juli Jazz Riff, Tzumo Electronic Dreams, Emilio Trio, Balázs Elemér Group, Szőke Nikoletta Trio, Borbély Műhely, Special Providence