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This year’s Sziget Festival, a week-long musical extravaganza on an island in the Danube, drew 390,000 people.
2010. augusztus 16.
The last time Fear Factory played in Hungary was in 2006, also during the Sziget Festival. At the end of that concert, I thought this was the end: there no way to do anything better than this anymore. Yet, much has happened since.
2010. augusztus 16.
The US ambassador was among those peddling to generate electricity for the concert of San Francisco's Silent Revolution eco-friendly band at the Sziget Festival in northern Budapest's Obuda Island on Saturday.
2010. augusztus 15.
The harvest and bread are the central themes of the Hungaricum Village at this year’s Sziget Festival, a week-long musical extravaganza on an island in the Danube, but there are plenty of dance performances, folk music shows and demonstrations of traditional handicrafts too.
2010. augusztus 15.
Two British bobbies along with Dutch, German and French police officers are helping their Hungarian colleagues at this year's Sziget Festival in northern Budapest's Obuda island, where more than half of the visitors are foreigners.
2010. augusztus 15.
Cash payments may become completely obsolete, taken over by “electronic wallets”, if the Sziget card introduced this year stands the test, the festival’s main organiser said.
2010. augusztus 14.
Half of the around 65,000-70,000 visitors going daily to the Sziget Festival at northern Budapest's Obuda Island are foreigners, their proportion among the weekly pass holders is around 75 percent, the festival's managing director told MTI on Friday.
2010. augusztus 14.
The Sziget Festival has noticeably raised the bar, already on the first day, as far as world music goes. In addition to the Buena Vista Social Club, two women with beautiful voices were here. The one was Spanish, but her heart drew one to Cuba, and the other came from Jerusalem, but her songs were only in Spanish, or, to be more precise, in Ladino
2010. augusztus 13.
Representatives of Spain, Belgium and Hungary inaugurated on Wednesday a tree dedicated to the current trio of European Union presidencies at the Sziget Festival in northern Budapest's Obuda Island.
2010. augusztus 13.
A strange boat set out on its voyage on the first day of the festival, but instead of floating on water, it navigated between the trees. The French street theatre troupe Malabar, with the hour-long performance Le Voyage des Aquareves, created an ocean on this island in the Danube, inhabited by distinctive sea creatures. The Gallic crew sailed into the Sziget Festival at a late hour but their performance rarely lost direction.
2010. augusztus 12.
The World Music Stage at the Sziget Festival is a sure bet, among the returning guests here are Buena Vista Social Club and Omara Portuondo. However, these two legends had not performed in Hungary together, until now.
2010. augusztus 11.
The farewell concert of the nineties' band Kispal es a Borz attracted 45,000 visitors on the first "warm-up" day of the 18th Sziget Festival on Budapest's northern Obuda island.
2010. augusztus 11.
About 400 bands and DJs will perform at this year's Sziget festival, a week-long musical extravaganza on an island in the Danube, the festival organisers said in Budapest on Sunday.
2010. augusztus 9.
Several events connected with Hungary's EU presidency in the first half of 2011 are part of this year's Sziget festival programme.
2010. augusztus 8.
Improving the comfort of festival-goers and the quality of programmes and services are among the main goals at this year's Sziget Festival, managing director Karoly Gerendai told MTI on Friday.
2010. augusztus 7.
The organisers of the Sziget Festival, a week-long musical extravaganza on an island in the Danube, are teaming up with the local unit of mobile communications company Vodafone to keep festival-goers connected.
2010. július 20.
The main stage at this year’s Sziget festival, a week-long musical extravaganza on an island in the Danube, promises something for everyone.
2010. június 29.
Punk legend Johnny Rotten and UK pop-ska band Madness have been added to the line-up of this year’s Sziget Festival, a five-day musical extravaganza on an island in the Danube.
2010. május 14.
Visitors to the website www.phasebook.hu will still see only a “Hello world!” greeting, but an exhibition of photographs that are part of the Phasebook project can be seen at Budapest’s Millenáris Park right now.
2010. május 9.
Jared Leto, the frontman of Thirty Seconds to Mars; the German alternative diva Nina Hagen; and Calvin Harris, whose second album "Ready for the Weekend" topped the UK charts, have been confirmed for this year's Sziget Festival, a week-long musical extravaganza on an island in the Danube.
2010. április 13.