The band will play a number of birthday concerts starting in January. In the summer, they will play for a dance production based on the life of Móric Benyovszky at the International Folk Dance Festival in Szeged, part of the Szeged Open Air Festival.
The band will release an album of new material in the autumn to be launched at a big concert.
Ghymes was founded by Hungarians at the College of Education in Nitra, Slovakia. The founding members came from musical backgrounds ranging from classical to rock to Renaissance music. "Folk elements...clung together with their own individual musical ideas and Ghymes music was born," the band writes on its website.
In addition to traditional instruments (violin, viola, dulcimer, bagpipe, contrabass, lute, koboz, kalabash zither, Turkish pipe), the band started using saxophones and drums, and "without having even noticed" were included in the "world music" category, the band says.
Source: www.fidelio.hu / www.ghymes.hu
