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The festival will start Friday evening with a Baroque masquerade parade that leaves from the Stone Gate and finishes on the city?s main square. Anybody can participate. Prizes will go to the best costumes.
Several concerts are on the festival programme. The Vác Symphony Orchestra will perform with the Saint Cecilia Choir in the city?s cathedral, and the Lutheran church will host a Baroque chamber music concert and a harpsichord concert with András Szepes. Annamária Bednarik will give an organ recital and Roland Heinrich will play the guitar in the Franciscan church. The Antonio Vivaldi Chamber Orchestra will play at the synagogue and the A-Capella Choir of Almedshofen at the Baptist church.
Performers from Vác?s partner cities, Donaueschingen in Germany and Rožňava in Slovakia, will come for the festival. Singers and dancers from Istanbul are also on the programme.
Families will get a chance to see demonstrations of handcrafts, as well as watch puppet shows and hear a concert by the group Katáng.
Winners of the Voices of the Danube Bend talent search programme will perform, as will professional acts such as Bikini, Miklós Varga and his Band and the Keresztes Ildikó Band.
A street ball will be held on Friday and Saturday and the festival will wind up with fireworks on Sunday.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
