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Andrea Gerak is the guest of Civil Radio, in the Dalok Galopp Show which is a bi-weekly program of Songs.hu

Wednesday, 16th July 15:00 (Central Europe Time)

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Andrea Gerak is a guest of Kreatív Klub (="creative club") on the Hungarian channel Fix TV.

June 9. Monday 11:45 (Central Europe Time, GMT+1)
Replay: June 13. Friday 11:45

It will be broadcast in Budapest and within its 60km radius

Watch it on the net: fixonline.hu.

Andrea Gerak soon in her homeland Hungary again!

Public performances this month:

June 22 Sunday 20:00
Edelény, Borsodi Tájház
"Music of Hungarians from the Carpathian Basin""
Andrea will perform at the evening of Vujicsics Ensemble and Hungarian Hurdy-gurdy Orchestra
A Borsod Arts Festival program
Entrance fee: 800HUF

June 26 Thursday 18:00
Dubicsány, Fignár Festival Court
A Borsod Arts Festival program

Full calendar
Previous concerts

The Sweden-based Petrás Incze János Csángó Foundation is holding a charity event at the Hungarian House in Stockholm. All the benefit from the concert will go to support social and cultural needs of Csángó Hungarians in Moldva.

Time: 24th May 2008
Place: Magyar Ház - Ungerska Huset (Bromma, Lövåsvägen 12, Stora Mossen subway station, green line towards Hässelby) Map


15:00-17:00 dance house for children (Hungarian folk dances)
17:00-19:00 Csángó Night Concert
19:30- till about Midnight dance house for adults (Hungarian folk dances)

Entrance fee: adulsts 80.-SEK, children 30.-SEK

Excellent Hungarian, Japanese, Indian, Polish, Swedish and Latvian artists will perform at the concert of folk music and classical music:

● Barozda (Csongor Simó violin, Lajos Toró viola, József Simó double bass, hurdy-gurdy, koboz): traditional music from Transylvania and Moldva,
● Barna Both (piano) performs his own compositions ("The Little Prince" and "Nocturne"),
● Andrea Gerák Csángó folk songs from Moldva,
● Japanese students of Sonoko Kase play piano,
● Lakshmikanth (tabla, voice) and Saikira (indiai harmonium): classical Indian music,
● Magnus Smedman Band (Swedish bagpipe and hurdy-gurdy): Swedish folk music,
● Milda Zigure and Ineta Zigure Latvian artists (violin and piano)
● Kinga Práda Sagvik (flute),
● György Stuber (Hungarian bagpipe, Moldva Csángó bagpipe, hurdy-gurdy and flute): folk music from Transylvania and Moldva, first ever Csángó bagpipe stage performance in music history!,
● Zsuzsanna Gaal, Gabriella Dybowski, Thomas Svanfeldt és György Stuber Hungarian folk dances.

Dance house music will be played by Barozda and György Stuber.

Donations can be sent to Foundation Petrás Incze János Csángó Alapítvány (Postgiro: 636 25 57 – 8 Receiver: Csángó Fonden Petrás Incze János)

Thank you in the name of Csángós.

Our event is dedicated to commemorate the late Csángó musicians Gergely Mesterke (-2004), Péter Minuc (-2002), Mihály Dima(-2005, Petru Ghiurca bagpipers and János Zerkula (-2008) fiddler who visited Sweden in 2002

Contact: +46 8 254038
Magyar Ház (Hungarian House) in Stockholm

Saturday, 26 April, 11:30 AM Europe time (GMT+1):

Interview with with Andrea Gerak singing live in the studio.
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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...

Fresh concert photos!


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Karolin Benkő's interview in the portrait series of Népzene.hu (=folkmusic.hu) titled The"mysterious voice", Andrea Gerák

The Hungarian singer presented her new show Set Forth Along a Road in Budapest. This gave the occasion for the journalist to interview her on one of the biggest folk music sites in Hungary.



"I like that I can reach into this unfailing, bottomless treasure chest, take out a gem, admire it and set it into a frame so that it can become a jewel. And that others can also admire it."
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The recent months were rather eventful for Andrea Gerak: in between joyful travels and performances, medical examinations found cervical cancer with her. The singer and her family was struck with the news as a surprise, for Andrea radiates vitality in her closer and broader environ alike. They tried to keep a low profile about it as for the public, one couldn't notice any signs of an illness at the concerts either.

In January, a successful operation was done whereby they removed the affected part in a way that no residue of the disease remained present. Therefore no further medical treatment is needed, only regular check-up.

Recovering, Andrea did not stay idle: she was preparing for her upcoming concerts, with several new songs and gave interviews. For the first time, she speaks about defeting the cancer which is considered dreaded by many:

"To confront the fact of what my illness was, hit me as a huge slap in the face, but I didn't let its pain and shock put me down longer than a moment. I was sure that I would overcome it quickly, because I have so much to do in the world. And in one way or the other, it is still me who is controlling my own body. This incident forced me to do a more thorough self-inspection as well as learn more about how the human body works, for example what does nutrition have to do with cancer or other diseases.

I am encouraging everybody to get the basic information on their own bodies, the physical and mental causes of illnesses and their effective prevention or, when that is needed, handling. And indeed do the necessary steps!

I would like to say thank you for all those who helped me through this difficult period: my family, few friends that knew about it, my doctors (in Stockholm Michael Przedpelski and Margarita Piper, in Budapest Maria Fabian, Peter Lovas, Laszlo Palfalvi - he did the operation - and Peter Lerner) as well as the nurses of Szent Istvan Hospital."

Andrea Gerak was already on stage last week, and at the end of this month she will be heard at the Budapest Fringe Festival.

Yesterday Andrea Gerak performed in Sweden for a Gala Concert celebrating 100th anniversary of the International Womens' Day. The event was a cooproduction between the Embassies of Italy, Hungary and Venezuela, opened by Italy's Ambassador, also attended by the Ambassador of Honduras.


The Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm provided perfect settings for the musical performance.

Andrea's acapella Hungarian folk songs enchanted the audience, as well as the arias sung by Venezuelan born soprano Gabriela Gonzales-Toledo, accompanied by Anders Wadenberg on piano.

"It was a wonderful evening with a great audience and I enjoyed being on both sides on the stage: it's a pure joy to sing in this auditorium with excellent acoustics and atmosphere, just as well as to listen.

My thanks go to all those who made this experience possible.

I found a new favorite place in Stockholm where I would attend future concerts very gladly as a listener or performer." - Andrea Gerak

The two singers after the gala

Bird, flying high - two-page article with Andrea Gerak in the February issue of MIX Magazin.

You can meet Andrea's husband and find out about some of her other favorites as well.



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Today, on 15/January it's Andrea's birthday and as a treat the listeners, all the songs on her MySpace profile are available for free download.

A song travelling through the ether, after having been recorded 40 years ago in a village of Malaita, Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. A folk song called Rorogwela, a lullaby sung by an elderly woman.

Since then, the melody became well known, such names composed music to it as Deep Forest or Jan Garbarek, or recently the Canada based Existence Records gathered electronica masters to remix the song and presented Deep Forest Sweet Lullaby Remixed album with 16 artists.

Andrea Gerak's voice appears in two other versions, composed by the Spanish Cambridge which are spreading around all over the world on websites such as Last FM, YouTube or SoundClick.

Last week the Rorogwela Sunset Mix was featured at the 100th edition of Electrical Language Podcast and now it is played on AMPed, the Official Podcast of the Association of Music Podcasting, Andrea herself introducing the track.

Listen to the AMPed Show #102 online, with an international artist selection from Russia, Sweden, UK or download it

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Andrea is a featured artist of the month in the Newsletter of Ultimate Band List

View it online here

Listen to the 100th edition of Electrical Language Podcast where Andrea introduces one of her songs in cooproduction with Cambridge 2003 (Ángel Orós)



A weekly 30 minute podcast of Podsafe indie music from the UK and beyond, brought to you by Gabor Kovacs from Hampshire, UK. The music ranges from acoustic to electronica to "indie rock". The electrical language podcast plays good music from: Hungary, Iceland, Malta, Sweden as well as the UK, North America, Australia and New Zealand.

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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