HYMHungary2018

We have had an action packed 5 days and are sad to be heading home tomorrow. Our host families have been so generous, welcoming and warm. Our guys feel like they have made friends for life. Two great concerts today at Budakalasz Music School. This morning our group played before an audience of 250 local primary school children and judging from their enthusiastic response they really enjoyed it. Our hosts then treated us to a wonderful 3 course lunch followed by a bit of well earned chill out time. This evening we joined forces with our friends from Hungary for a combined concert, our last of the tour and what a finisher!!!. From Ulla- This has been the best concert so far (and you all know how difficult it is for me to admit that|). We have sounded like never before. So in sync...and breathing together at the same time. They have grown sooooo much! I couldn't be any more proud of them! The highlights were a...

We had a fantastic, fun packed day today spending lots of time with the amazing families here. The weather has been superb all day getting up to 26 degrees in the afternoon. In the morning we all met up at Visegrad, a famous town situated in the hills north of Budapest and on a big bend of the Danube. Everyone had a go on the 'Bob' which is like a mini a bobsleigh on wheels and goes pretty fast but is safe. Many of us had lots of goes but not as many as Ulla!  Here's some photos, unfortunately, the blog wont let us put any more photos on so sorry if we missed you.     Later, we visited the castle and saw amazing views of the river and surrounding countryside as well as learning a bit about the old kings and queens of Hungary. After this, we all went our separate ways with the families to have lunch in various restaurants. Later we went back to Budakalsz for an evening of t...

A lovely day sharing with our Hungarian guitarist friends today. After some hilarious icebreaking activities organised by Zoltan we got straight into rehearsing together. Later we were invited by Pomaz Music School to eat lots of lovely Hungarian food. Fried chicken, potatoes, rice and a local soup was on offer and eagerly eaten by all. Plenty of vegetarian options too. The concert was a great success and after the Budakalsz and Pomaz groups played their own sets we played Skyrim, Mozart and Danza Cubana before joining forces. The Hungarians had learned the joint repertoire really well so that 40 guitarists together sounded really powerful. Local student, Kristof joined in on the bongos and cajon which provided a real lift to Breathless and La Colombina. Again, the audience were really appreciative and demanded an encore at the end...guess what we played?   Technical problems means we cant post videos yet but we will keep trying! ...

We have had a really busy day today starting this morning with a concert at Veres Peter High School in front of more than 300 pupils and teachers. We played really well and were cheered to the rafters by a respectful and enthusiastic audience. They especially loved the pop medley and we gave them an encore of Despacito which went down a storm. We were all asked for autographs at the end which made us feel a bit special! Hopefully, we will be able to post some videos of the performances soon. After this, we went to some English classes to talk with their students. They surprised us with the high level of their English and we had some really interesting conversations throughout the morning. After lunch at the school canteen, we took the train to Szentendre which is a beautiful and traditional Hungarian town on the banks of the Danube. We were given a guided tour by Georgie and then went off in groups to explore. After this,...

We have all arrived safely in Budapest and are being given a suprise guided coach tour of Budapest by night by Orsi before going to meet the families.