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Friday, 03 September 2010



Photo Exhibit of Sziget Festival Opens in Bulgaria’s Capital



BalkanTravellers.com   

26 November 2009 | An exhibition of photographs of the Sziget music festival by Maria Abadjieva and Violeta Babaleva, some of which were published on BalkanTravellers.com, will open in the Hungarian Cultural Institute on December 1.

The photographs document the 2008 edition of Sziget, one of Europe’s biggest and most exciting music and cultural events, which takes place every year on the Óbudai-sziget ("Old-Buda Island") in Budapest.

Nowadays, spread over more than 20 stages, the festival boasts over 1,000 performances, including the world’s biggest names in world rock and pop music, and an audience of half a million people.

Some of the images of the exhibition, which will be on display until December 31, can be seen in the photo-story about the festival on BalkanTravellers.com [in Bulgarian].

 

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