This year?s festival marks the 300th anniversary of the first departure of ?Ulmer Schachtel? boats filled with emigrants down the Danube to destinations in Romania, Hungary and Serbia.
Festival-goers can sample the famous fish soup of the Hungarian city of Baja on Ulm?s Marktplatz, and they can watch a documentary about the city made by a local son, the photographer and filmmaker Károly Pump, in the evenings.
This year?s programme is rich with Hungarian musicians, featuring performances by Zengő, the brass quintet Brass in the Five, the electronic world music group Navrang and the rock group Fókatelep, which comprises members of Korai Öröm and colorStar with the vocalist Annamária Oláh.
The organises call the festival one ?of encounters, in which strangers become friends and the unusual becomes familiar. A festival that can make Europe tangible in Ulm and Neu-Ulm?.
?The Danube Region is a symbol of Europe's successful reunification after the fall of the Iron Curtain and embodies like no other European region the potential and richness of peaceful unity in diversity,? they add.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
