Transylvanian violin music.

Subject: RE: Transylvanian violin music.
From: Jack Campin
Date: 02 Apr 10 - 03:00 PM

This thread came to the top somehow (spam that got deleted before I saw it?).

Might be worth a mention that the list of folkcamps at folkradio.hu is now updated:

Hungarian Folk Radio English language page

Sadly, the Külsörekecsin one is still not back (cancelled last year due to a bereavement) and the Somoska one has been scaled down, so not much Moldavian stuff happening. But there is a citera festival, which might be interesting for the exotic-dulcimer types here.

Subject: RE: Transylvanian violin music.
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 02 Apr 10 - 03:26 PM

Well, well. How nice it is to hear from people who, like me, enjoy this kind of music.

Thanks for the links, everybody.

However, somebody should make a video on how to make a video.

Subject: RE: Transylvanian violin music.
From: Jack Campin
Date: 02 Apr 10 - 04:26 PM

And I see the tanchaz.hu schedule of folk camps has also been updated (more detail than the folkradio.hu one but not such a nice layout):

2010 list, in Hungarian

Given previous experience, the English version will be very late if it happens at all. Some of the camps (Gyimes in particular) are very good at handling queries in English.

Subject: RE: Transylvanian violin music.
From: Jack Campin
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 10:04 AM

This year's list of Hungarian music and dance workshops.

http://www.folkradio.hu/nyari_tabor.php (in Hungarian)

A lot of the events are in Romania. Romanian folk music and dance is closely related, and there seems to be a lot of it about, but I can find absolutely nothing like the Hungarian camps, where you can go to learn about it. Anybody know of anything?

Subject: RE: Transylvanian violin music.
From: GUEST,Donald
Date: 17 Oct 11 - 06:50 PM

The camps in Romania are run by Hungarians and teach the Hungarian folk music from Transylvania (you'll find Romanian and Gypsy music mixed in, but I've only met one gypsy participant and no Romanian participants at the camps. The teachers may be Romanian/Gypsy, though). The teaching in the advanced classes is by the village bands, and the beginning or intermediate classes are taught by professional players who tend to have a broader repertoire, and go from camp to camp to teach and play at the tanchaz at night.

In the United States, there are two summer camps (Ti Ti Tabor and Csipke) that aren't listed on the folkradio page. You can pull up their websites with a quick google search. There are a few people with extensive experience in the US and Canada who can teach this music, but you'd have to ask around to find them - start with your local Hungarian society. Being from the US, I don't know much about the Australian and UK scenes. I know one player from the UK and a few from Germany.

Subject: RE: Transylvanian violin music.
From: ollaimh
Date: 17 Oct 11 - 10:26 PM

the band musikash do great hungarian music.

Subject: RE: Transylvanian violin music.
From: Jack Campin
Date: 18 Oct 11 - 09:18 AM

Found a Romanian culture one, but it seems not to cater for musicians:

Banatfolk

Subject: RE: Transylvanian violin music.
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 19 Apr 13 - 04:35 PM

Some new stuff I found....