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After Kerekes concert at the stunning new Solstice Arts Centre in Meath in August they visited the ancient sites of Newgrange and Knowth nearby to discover the megalithic structures and practise their new levitation technique as seen in the picture below.
Check out Kerekes band on MySpace Kerekes Celebrate their 10th Anniversary
Flautist, Zsombor (pictured left) can be seen shaking hands and receiving a cheque from The Mayor of Eger to help towards the recording and production costs of Kerekes' new album. The audience were also treated to screenings of their various TV recordings around Europe including their appearance on The View (RTE1) Kerekes start to record their new album 'Magyar Funk' on the 1st of February, the CD should be on the shelves by April 2006.
KEREKES new album Pimasz gets a great review in Songlines Magazine and is track 1 on this months covermount sampler CD, see: http://www.songlines.co.uk/topoftheworld/top-of-the-world.php 
The picture above shows
Kerekes performing at a
Tanchaz on Monday
August 21st in Eger.
A Tanchaz is a Magyar
Dance-House with traditional dancing.
Not
wanting to be left out of the action, here's Viktor
& Zsombor's
mum being presented with the award of
'Master
of Folk
Art' by the Culture Minister for continuing
to make
traditional Hungarian clothes for over 20 years.
Mrs
Feher has won many awards over the years but
this is
the top award
And if you fancy a chuckle courtesy of Kerekes Band check out the prologue section of their website http://www.kerekesband.hu/index_en.html written by Viktor the drummer. It is, of course, complete nonsense but Magyar fun all the same!
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On Saturday 21st
January Kerekes celebrated their 10th anniversary with a sell-out concert at The
Eger Art Centre.