43rd National Táncház Festival & Fair • 5–7 April 2024
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With the recent passing of Kossuth Award recipient, acclaimed folk music educator and folk flutist Béres János 1930–2022, folkMAGazin prints this interview from 2015 in which Béres tells about his professional life. He was a dancer, then also flute player with the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble from the moment it was founded (1951), later he led his own folk dance group. From the 1950’s on, he worked actively towards lifting the status and level of folk music instruction in Budapest and in Hungary. Interview by Grozdits Károly.