Budapest Spring Festival

Mörk, who play music based on soul and funk, will give a record presentation concert entitled The Death and Resurrection of Mörk on Easter weekend 2019. The technical, improvisational music of the ensemble is guaranteed to fill those who look back at the concert with us on the occasion of the 41st Budapest Spring Festival with positive energy!

The Estonian-born formation of Ewert and the Two Dragons returned to Hungary in 2017, where they gave an unforgettable concert to the audience of the A38 Ship as part of the Budapest Spring Festival - and to which we can now nod again while watching from the couch.

The French singing trio L.E.J danced the audience of the A38 Boat at an unforgettable concert at the 2019 Budapest Spring Festival. One of the greatest French success stories of recent years: the three glamorous musicians with a lovely and French-elegant remake of summer hits and their own record (Poupées Russes) have been blown up enormously.

The 41st Budapest Spring Festival evokes the best A38 concerts in this year's online program. On April 10, United in Sounds - Cosmic Forces of Oneness will bring excellent domestic and foreign representatives of modern African music to Ship’s virtual space for the festival. In addition to the musicians of the Hungarian Mabon Dawud Republic, many foreign guests will perform on the stage - including the explosively energetic Stevo Atambire from Ghana, the master of an instrument called kologo.

In the world of the duo formed in 2015, a pining but always hopeful mood blends with the musical foundations of current electronica. Sopport act will be by the excellent Viennese ethno-jazz formation: Golnar & Mahan Trio.

Following the decision of the Hungarian Government, in accordance with guidelines issued in response to the global health emergency, the 40th jubilee Budapest Spring Festival will be cancelled.

Please be informed that Tank and the Bangas have cancelled their entire European tour, including their 8 April, 2020 concert on A38 Ship.

Following the decision of the Hungarian Government, in accordance with guidelines issued in response to the global health emergency, the 40th jubilee Budapest Spring Festival will be cancelled. Tickets will be refunded via the Festival’s website. Further details on this process will soon be announced at www.bsf.hu.

In 2015 Mörk turned up with its unconventional room concerts, and nowadays the quartet is considered by many to be a big hit.

One of the greatest French success stories of recent years is the trio of three charming musicians, L.E.J. The dazzling and frenzied remakes of great summer hits featured huge blasts of success for them which was continued with their first album featuring their own songs last year. Beautiful acoustic songs, charming vocals, fresh chanson-pop: this is L.E.J., which holds its first Hungarian concert on the Budapest Spring Festival on the A38.

Hungarian gipsy music and Eastern roots of world music meet electronic worlds, egzotic instuments, sound clashes, in a never heard amazing sound-whirlpool.

Merging in Music - It would be hard to describe more cincisely the almost large-scale afrobeat-afrojazz concert at the Budapest Spring Festival on the A38 Ship. Thirteen member Mabon Dawud Republic was founded in honor of Fela Kuti and is the first afrobeat big band in Hungary. One of the key figures of the grand ensemble, Szabolcs Bognár's keyboards, presents a solo project called ásbáse with Nigerian guest musicians.

Singer-songwriter Anja Plaschg - whose name is known as Soap & Skin - known for her special electronic music with a unique artistic blend has released her fantastic new album in late October with the use of classic chamber instruments. The album will be premiered at the A38 Ship.

Having completed his studies in classical piano, Sarp met Vogel, who was experimenting with his own keyed instruments, as he was immersing himself in Steve Reich’s work. Their duo grew out of the simple idea of connecting the piano’s hammers with Vogel’s cache of instruments. John Cage’s famed quip became their motto: “I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” With the 2017 Open, the Düsseldorf duo made the album that finally set them apart from the multitude of new neoclassical productions. The formula of Grandbrother’s chemistry, the harmony between the sweeping electronic soundscapes and the ringing melodies of the piano, is as playful and captivating as it is unassumingly fragile. Meet the greatest European promises of a contemporary classical sound that overlaps with the outer reaches of electronica.

Chapelier Fou, or, the Mad Hatter, is one of the most original voices of French downtempo, who composes exceptionally varied music. Nor is it an exaggeration to talk about composition in his case: following his fourth album, released in 2017, the classically trained multi-instrumentalist is now looked upon as one of the greatest artists of experimental electronica, in the league of Amon Tobin and Yann Tiersen. However, the French producer’s music defies categorization as he continues his uncompromising quest. Sweet trifles, cheerful chansons, über-complex rhythm patterns, a rich array of instruments, electronic textures, dense atmospheres, and extreme mood swings add up to form a lush music that serves up new surprises at every turn.

Braids, the Canadian pop/art-rock band that formed over ten years ago, make their Budapest debut. Jealously guarding their independence from the start, the three core players have been making music together since their teens. Now based in Montreal, they have toured several continents, and now they finally come to Hungary. They last released an album in 2015, so their Budapest set list can be expected to include some new material. The evening’s programme opens with the concert of the Hungarian Belau, who draw on sundry sources, and whose music features endlessly floating synthesizer themes, dreamy echoes and soothing vocals.

Great and touching indie pop by the Estonian star-group Ewert and the Two Dragons perform on an especially pleasant night in the company of two great Hungarian bands.

BSF and the A38 present

Budapest Spring Festival