Sat 11/18 @ 7PM
Once every five years, Cleveland Hungarian Scout Folk Ensemble puts on a major celebration of Hungarian folk culture in music and dance. And this year’s performance will be its 50th Golden Anniversary Gala.
At the two-hour-plus performance at the Lakewood Civic Auditorium the more than two-hour program will feature, the ensemble, dressed in colorful and elaborate ethnic costumes, will perform to live music playing by the combined members of Toronto’s Kalman Magyar’s band Gyanta and Cleveland’s Harmonia. And past and future members will join the current group of dancers on some numbers.
The group was founded in 1973 “to preserve dying folk arts of the Hungarians living in the Carpathian basin, to search out the arts, make them their own, and present them to their viewing audiences. Folk dance, folk music, folk songs, folk costumes, folk art forms, ballads, instruments, and customs are areas explored in depth.”
Members are all Hungarian youth who are at least 14 years old, and who speak, read and write fluent Hungarian. They’ve performed around the U.S. and Canada and toured Hungary our times, as well as Hungarian minority areas of Transylvania, Ukraine, Slovakia, Serbia and Moldova.
To get tickets go here.