Happy Easter!

Andrea Gerak wishes everyone happy Easter with a poem:
Dancing violets
and a little video:



Watch video on YouTube
(The sound quality on the album is better, you should listen to the song here too)

And a bonus: Easter fun :-))

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Salley Gardens video

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Credits: Andrea Gerak - vocals, some of the photos, video
Special thanks to Flickerians for more photos:
Darren Larson, nznomad, Big Sky Photography, Janusz Leszczynszki, vgm8383, Griangraf, Kathy McEldowney, theq47, Chad K



Song page on website with more info, lyrics

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Concert video: A pünkösdi rózsa (The Peony)

Andrea performing a song from the upcoming album This Way, Sweetheart!

She sang for the event Road To Copenhagen, together with Ewa Wikström and Julien Matei. This song was her solo part.


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Video: There Is No Greater Sadness

Theme song: traditional Hungarian folk song from Transylvania
Music arrangement: Effi Shoshani
Vocals, photos: Andrea Gerak

ENGLISH TRANSLATION:

There is no greater sadness in the world
Than when those get married who don't love each other,
If she has to hug him, she says her arms hurt,
If she has to kiss him, she sheds tears.

I love you, I love you, but tell it to no-one
Till they carry me laid out on the church's ground.
Don't tell it to your mother that I love you,
No-one should know that I'm dying for you.

Love, love, wretched anguish
Why didn't you blossom on the leaves of each tree
On the leaves of each tree, at the bottom of each bush,
Let each boy and girl pluck you.

'cause I've already plucked one and also missed it,
Instead of a tame dove, I caught a wild one,
I would pluck again if I found a good one,
If a good one, if a nice one, my old flame.

For my old flame what wouldn't I do,
I would scoop the water out of the sea with a spoon,
From the sea bottom I would pick tiny pearls,
For my old flame I would bind a pearl-wreath.


Download song from the album Arva az a madar - Lonely Is The Bird

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Concert video: Don't Fall Asleep

16 May 2009, After Music Club, Mookie Got Robbed concert

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Bartok Dance Ensemble on tv

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In the next days, Channel 1 of Hungarian Television broadcasts a film about 50 Years Anniversary of Bartok Dance Ensemble. A documentary and the gala performance in 2008 November at Palace of Arts Budapest will be shown in 3 parts:

Documentary:
Apr. 26. Sunday 15:00

Gala - part 1:
ápr. 28. kedd, 23:35

Gala - part 2:
Apr. 29. Wednesday 00:10 (in the tv program of Wed night)

UPDATE:

After broadcasting, the films are available online from the video archives of Hungarian Television
Documentary:


Gala - part 1:


Gala part 2:

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Gelem, Gelem video

Andrea's performance at the Human Rights Day Gala" in Stockholm, 2008 December. She is singing the national anthem of the Romany people, for a gala concert on the Human Rights Day in Stockholm.

Just before her stage appearance, Stig Johnell from Amnesty International spoke about the situation of the Roma minority in Italy.



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Impressions from Pusztina/Pustiana

It was a very nice day on my July trip to csángó villages in Moldva. As a preparation for the local festival in Magyarfalu (Arini, county Bacau in Romania), we drove to Pusztina/Pustiana where I had time to take a few photos.

The Hungarian folk song you can hear is also from that region. (Album: Madárka, madárka)

Asiye - Concert Video

Andrea Gerak presents a Turkish folk song at Budapest Fringe Festival, in her program Set Forth Along a Road. In the song, a boy sings about loosing his love, Asiye.

It wasn't easy to perform it acapella, in the middle of all the noise coming in from the other concerts...

Lonely Is The Bird - video

First co-operation between Andrea Gerak and Effi Shoshani Israeli composer.

Title song of the album Lonely Is The Bird

Theme: Hungarian folk song from Moldva

Andrea Gerak: lead vocals, photos
Effi Shoshani: music arrangement, all instruments

Text in English:

Lonely is the bird
That has no mate,
I am lonely as well,
I don't have one either.

One of my eyes is crying,
Let the other one cry too,
Let them both cry
Like a rainshower.

God should have made it so
That I wouldn't have seen you,
The word about me wouldn't have gone
Along with the word about you.

My name wouldn't have been named
Along with your name,
So that now my gloomy heart
Wouldn't be in deep mourning.

Download song: go to this page.

Folk songs from Domaháza - Video

Traditional songs from Domaháza which is a village in Borsod county (Northern-East Hungary), close to the Slovakian border.


Live recording, photos from the Brugges Festival.






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Madárka - Little Birdie (Video)

Andrea Gerak singing a Hungarian folk song, improvising with Sandor Fekete-Kiss composer, at a concert in Hungary.
The original piece is almost 18 minutes long, this is the end part.
Last track from the album Árva az a madár - Lonely Is The Bird



Pictures: spring nature photos from Sweden.

Theme: Hungarian folk song from Moldva

Lyrics:
Madárka, madárka,
Áraszd meg a vizet,
Áraszd meg a vizet,
Hadd írjak levelet!

Apámnak s anyámnak,
Szűbeli mátkámnak,
Apámnak s anyámnak,
Szűbeli mátkámnak.

Music arrangement: Sandor Fekete-Kiss
Vocals: Andrea Gerak
Song recorded: live at Symmetry Festival Budapest, 2003
Photos, video: Andrea Gerak

Rorogwela Sunset Mix video

You can also open the video's YouTube page and write your comment there.

Don't Fall Asleep - concert video

Andrea Gerak performing for a Christmas concert in Stockholm, 2006.



Credits

Theme: traditional Hungarian folk song
Arrangement, music production: Angel Oros (Cambridge 2003)
Musicians: Andrea Gerak - vocals, dance, Angel Oros - keyboards, Jose Aurelio Ferrandez - duduk, ney, Edgar Molina - percussions
Video: Jan Gustafsson (Enhancia)

From the album "Árva az a madár - Lonely Is The Bird"

Video: Don't Fall Asleep (a cappella)

Andrea Gerak sings a beautiful Hungarian folk song