43rd National Táncház Festival & Fair • 5–7 April 2024
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Remembering Palóc folklore researcher Nagy Zoltán who died on March 5th, 2020. He was born in 1938 in the village of Zabar in Hungary’s Nógrád County and dedicated his life to collecting folk tales in his native Palóc region. His entire collection is housed the audio archives of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, manuscripts are housed in the Museum of Ethnography and the complete collection is also in the Salgótarján Library. Some 15 volumes of his collection work have been published. He was the recipient of numerous local and national awards recognizing his lifework. By Janurik Tímea.