44th National Táncház Festival & Fair • 4–6 April 2025
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In memory of folk musician Éri Péter (1953–2023) on his participation in ethnographic field work as a boy with his mother Borbély Jolán and step-father Martin György. Éri Péter had the enviable good luck to grow up amidst an extraordinary group of folk dance researchers and ethnographers during an exciting period of Hungarian folk dance research (1950s, 1960s). From a young age he assisted on trips documenting traditional dance for example in a Gypsy community in Óbuda (Budapest), the Transylvanian village of Méra (in 1963 and 1966) and to Tardoskedd/Tvrdošovce and Kéménd/Kamenín in Slovakia’s Nitra region. This writing is based on audio recordings of interviews with Éri Péter and Borbély Jolán and notes from those collection trips found in the archives. By Maruzsenszki Andor distance learning student in Ethnography, Szeged University.