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The Magos Folk Band from Budapest is a band playing authentic Hungarian folk music, first of all tunes from Transylvania (Kalotaszeg, Mezőség, Székelyföld) and present day Hungary (Szatmár, Dunántúl). It was founded in March 2008, the recent line-up, however, was formed in the summer of 2017.

The members of the band are:

ENYEDI Ágnes, Young Master of Folk Arts, Junior Prima Award – voice
SOÓS Csaba, Young Master of Folk Arts – violin
KOVÁCS Márton, Junior Prima Award – violin
ÉRI Márton – violas
ENYEDI Tamás – cimbalom/Hungarian dulcimer
PRIHODA István – double bass, cello
SALAMON Soma, Young Master of Folk Arts, Junior Prima Award – accordion, flutes

"Our aim is to study and convey the traditions of folk music while preserving the original tone. Some of us work as teachers at several music schools.

Authentically performed folk music compilations can be heard at our performances, where the influence of
the musicians and singers living in the actual region/village can also be observed.

We often take part in field work in Transylvania, and aim at including the acquired musical experiences in
our music, then acquaint the listeners with the traditions of the given region.

Apart from accompanying dance ensembles we regularly organize concerts and dance house events both
inland and abroad. We have been permanent musicians of Maros Region Folk Music and Dance Camp in
Jobbágytelke for years. In 2011 we won FolkBEATS – an authentic folk-and worldmusic talent show.

Thanks to this success we participated in a 5-week 26-concert North-American tour in 2012, where we held
concerts and dance houses for Hungarian communities in the US and Canada. In 2014 we got into the
semifinals of the famous talent show ’Felszállott a Páva’, where we had the opportunity to perform in
television programmes. In 2017 we managed to obtain the ’Halmos Béla’ grant, which enabled us to make
our CD titled ’Forgatós’(Authentic Hungarian Folk Music from the river Sajó area to Székelyföld).
Our compilation ’Magosan….’ was awarded the ’Nagy Páva’ label in a competition launched by the
Hungarian Heritage House in 2018.
We consider Csiszár Aladár, the lead violinist from Magyarpéterlaka to be one of our greatest masters,
thus no wonder that there is no Magos concert without music from Péterlaka.”

Discography:
USA-Canada Tour 2012 (not official release)
Forgatós (Authentic Hungarian Folk Music from the river Sajó area to Székelyföld). (Publisher: Fonó
Budai Zeneház 2018)

As contributor:
Táncház-Népzene (Hungarian Dance House – Folk Music) 2010, 2011, 2017 (Publisher:
Hungarian Heritage House)
Fölszállott a páva 2014 selection (Publisher: MTVA)

About the ‘Forgatós’
During the recent years we have devoted our attention to understanding, acquisition and
stylistically appropriate interpretation of music related to diverse regions of Székelyföld, as well as
the villages along the rivers Sajó and Maros. We have compiled several line-ups that present the
unique beauty of folk music belonging to these rural areas.
We take our audience on a journey starting from the river Sajó area through Székely-Mezőség
and Felső-Maros area to Udvarhelyszék and the area of the river Nyárád hoping that by the end
of this ’roaming’ everybody will feel like dancing a ’Forgatós’.