Among world music groups in Hungary, Söndörgo is one of those playing most briskly, most vigorously.
Their aim is to foster and preserve ample Southern Slavic traditions.
In Hungary, Southern Slavs live in groups rather isolated from each other, thus ethnic heritage treasured and maintained by them is quite multicolored.
The group was founded in 1995 in a small Hungarian town near Budapest called Szentendre. Eredics brothers got acquainted, and started to play music together with Attila Buzás during their high-school years. Partly because of family motives (Eredics brothers father is a foundator of the Vujicsics ensemble), all group members are profoundly touched by, and drawn towards Southern Slavic folk music, which they consider it their mission to arrange in style, and perform on stage.
Now the members of the group are the followings: Attila Buzás, Áron Eredics, Benjamin Eredics, Dávid Eredics and Salamon Eredics.
As opposed to most groups playing Balkan music, Söndörg? does not follow the brass-instrumented tradition – it is a typical tamburitza band.
Their sound is based on the instruments of the tamburitza family, completed occasionally by wind instruments and accordion.
Söndörgo’s genuine repertoire is compiled out of the material gathered by Béla Bartók, and Tihamér Vujicsics. Nowadays Söndörgo is a constant performer of festivals in Hungary and Europe.
They will present here their new album Tamburising - Lost Music of the Balkans with the singer and actress Katya Tompos.