2ND WOMEX AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT * WOMEX 08 Award for World Music to Muzsikás

WOMEX is proud to announce the winner of the WOMEX Award 2008... Muzsikás (Hungary)

in this, their 35th year. This is the group of artists who put Hungarian folk music on the international map. With their collaborations with Márta Sebestyén, and now in their superlative work since she departed, they have been the foremost ambassadors for music from Hungary, with a special emphasis on music from Transylvania.
"Without Muzsikás, the Hungarian "táncház (dancehouse)" movement, the special Hungarian klezmer-revival and the bridge between Hungarian folk music and Béla Bartók's work would not exist," says Csaba Lokös, Promoter of the world music stage at the Sziget Festival and a long-term collaborator with the artists.

• article submitted by: Anna Pötzsch, Piranha WOMEX AG

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• WOMEX 08 Awards