Pál István was a traditional bagpipe player and shepherd from Hungary’s Nógrád County in the Palóc region. He would have celebrated his 100th birthday in 2019. Hungary awarded him the Madách Award and the title of Master of Folk Arts in recognition of his traditional knowledge. His students celebrate him with this concert in his memory.

Pál István was born in 1919 in the village of Kétdobony in Hungary’s Nógrád County . He was the first boy born into a family of nine children. He came from a long line of shepherds, thus grew up steeped in the tradition. The folk music researchers discovered him in 1992 and from that point on ethnographers regularly visited him to document his flute and bagpipe playing, songs, and lore. He knew that - along with knowledge comes the responsibility to pass it on. This is what kept him alive.

This event also celebrates the work of Szeder Fábián scientific researcher from the Palóc region who wrote on the Palóc people two hundred years ago in “Tudományos gyújtemény : a Palóczokról”...

Dr. Agócs Gergely – folk musician, ethnomusicologist, scientific researcher at the Hungarian Heriatge House.

Performing:
Bese Botond - bagpipe
Dóra Áron - flute
Juhász Zoltán – bagpipe, flute
Nagy Gábor – bagpipe, flute
Milus Fruzsina – voice
Kovács József and Kovács-Jelinek Emese – dance

Tickets: 1000 Ft