Söndörgő

Among world music groups in Hungary, Söndörgő 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.
As opposed to most groups playing Balkan music, Söndörgő does not follow the brass-instrumented tradition – it is a typical tambur band. Their sound is based on the instruments of the tambur family, completed occasionally by wind instruments and accordion. Söndörgő’s repertoire is compiled out of the material gathered by Béla Bartók, and Tihamér Vujicsics.