The County Council Brasov, The County Centre for the Conservation and the Promotion of the Traditional Culture, along the Budila town-hall and the Cultural Association ?Apácai Csere Janos? organized mid-February the ?Festival of the popular song and dance of the Magyar community living in the Carpathian Curve?.
The event gathered on the stage of Budila communitarian house the most famous Magyar bands, which competed in folkloric dances, popular clothes parade and brass bands. The festival was attended by local authorities, Magyar senators and deputies, mayors of the localities inhabited mostly by Magyars and Budila inhabitants.
Multicultural Festival
The Festival arrived t its third edition and gathered 22 bands of the county (almost 400 participants, adults and children). As the organizers wished, the Festival is hosted every year by another county?s locality, in order to bring into notoriety the traditional Magyar song and dance. The latter also was a dialogue between two generations of dancers, able to transmit the techniques to the youths. Constantin Galborcea, the mayor of Budila, noticed ?the multicultural feature of the closing ball, where all the participants showed their wish to learn the Magyar traditional dances?
Carpathian Specificity
As organizer, the Centre?s director, prof. Adrian Valusescu was happy to see how many participants have attended the festival. ?All of the proved exceptional skills for dancing and singing. They performed old Magyar dances, but also Transylvanian ones, specific to this geographic area, danced by both Romanian and Magyars bands?.
