44th National Táncház Festival & Fair • 4–6 April 2025
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Kiss Ferenc (June 27, 1954 – October 15, 2024). Kiss Feri has passed away. Prolific composer, record label founder, publisher, folk music collector, festival organizer, writer, thinker. Father, grandfather, friend; “one of the last Mohicans”. Frequent contributor to folkMAGazin. He was born in Debrecen, finished secondary school in Budapest, then studied Hungarian and ethnography at ELTE University in Budapest. From 1973 on, he worked mainly as a musician, composer, folk music collector; after the political changes of 1990 he founded a record label and publishing company while continued composing and producing his many musical projects. Printed here are ethnomusicologist/bagpipe player Szabó Zoltán’s memories of travelling with Feri to Transcarpathia to do collection work (Feri’s father was from there; he had relatives there) and working and playing music on numerous projects with Kiss Feri. October 16th, 2024.