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ROMA EVENING

ELTE TTK
Budapest XI. Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A.

June 27., 1999.

Ando Drom
Budapest Gypsy Folk Group

The Ando Drom Group plays authentic and contemporary Gypsy music. The leader of the group, Jenő Zsigó, as a Gypsy family guardian, created the opportunity in a Rákospalota, Budapest, childrens club for children and parents from various Gypsy national groups in Hungary to collaborate in bringing their own culture to life. Then, out of the childrens community, formed a group that the children themselves named Andro Drom (On the Road) when in 1984 they were invited to a festival, where the adult-standard singing and dancing troupe met with enormous success.

The unique sound of the Andro Drom is still due to its having members from national groups with diverse song and dance traditions: Lovári, Collár, Gulvári, Kelderás and Romungró.
What makes the music of the Europe-wide famous Andro Drom unique is that, while maintaining ancient traditions, it is music of today.
As well as authentic Gypsy folk music, they play modern urban Gypsy music with their own arrangements and their own compositions, relating the modern concerns of Gypsy people.

Leader of the Gorup: Jenő Zsigó
guitar, mandolin, tambourine, kettle, spoons, "mouth bass" and vocals

Members:
Mónika Miczura Juhász, vocals, dance, "mouth bass" kettle, spoons
Mónika Horvát: vocals, dance, mouth bass, kettle, spoons
Imre Bihari: vocals, guitar, "mouth bass" and percussion

Egri János Group

János Egri was born in Budapest in 1966., into a family of musicians. He studied classical and jazz music, and has been an active musician since the age of 17. He has been a member of the Trio Midnight band since 1990. In 1996 he founded the first band of his own under the name the Egri János Group. He has been teaching bass and bass guitar in the musical department of MZTSZ since 1997.

With:
Kálmán Oláh, keyboards
József Nagy Hangya, saxophone
István Fekete, trumpet
Miklós Birta, guitar
György Müller, percussion
Emil Jelinek, vocals and drums
János Egri, bass guitar

Kalyi Jag

The group was formed out of Roma young people in 1978. It was the first group in Hungary to present Roma culture in their own language in the course of their performances.

Founder and leader of the group: Gusztáv Varga vocals, dance, guitar, rhythmic instruments

Members:
Ágnes Balogh Künstler vocals, dance
József Balogh vocals, guitar, tambourine, mandolin
József Nagy vocals, dance, rhythmic instruments