"Heritage Festival" kicks off in Pécs
A multicultural festival offering over 100 arts, science and sports programmes will begin on Thursday in Pecs, S Hungary, which will be one of the cultural capital cities of Europe in 2010.
The ten-day "Heritage Festival" will open with an open-air performance of several wind ensebles to be followed by the concerts of bands from Pecs including Golestan playing Persian Hungarian music, the organisers told reporters on Tuesday.
Music programmes will feature everything from classical to world music, folk and jazz, performed by a number of Hungarian as well as guest groups from Croatia.
The festival will offer minority programmes with presentations of Bulgarian, Greek, Croatian, German and Roma culture.
On the festival's sidelines an international folk dance meeting, the 14th European Wine-Song festival and a celebration of Grape and Wine will be held.
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