17. Ördögkatlan Fesztivál

Four little villages, Beremend, Villánykövesd, Nagyharsány and Kisharsány provide the base locations for the festival. The gymnasium in Nagyharsány is transformed into a theatre (just like the Villánykövesd village house and the Kisharsány barn). Theatre is probably the most popular genre of the Ördögkatlan, and at this now five-day-long event, people have to fight through crowds to get into a show – we could say only the strongest and most desperate few do so. That’s the way it is, despite the fact that we try to provide a great variety, like having had 120 shows last year, and slightly more this summer, the Nagyharsány sports court provides a stage to the most popular rock bands, and the ones that are less known to Hungary are also invited (such as the American Firewater in 2010, the German BudZillus in 2011, Wombo Orchestra many times from France…).

Villánykövesd is firstly a world music and folk music centre, within its church, classical concerts are held, which the churches of the other two villages also provide grounds for. The lovely terrace of the Vylyan Winery is for literature and jazz for these five days, apart from the very best Hungarian representatives of the genre, we had one of the greatest legends of saxophonists, Chris Potter from New York to perform here, and also the greatest figures of Hungarian literature, from Péter Esterházy to György Konrád, from János Háy to György Spiró. It must be said that this location was also the Best Winery of 2009 - just as a reminder that these lands are the most important vineyards of our country.

We have to spare a word for Kisharsány especially, where a synergistic group, the Mediawave team famous for their independent film festival, used to organise part of the programme. They hold photography, film, music and architecture workshops, as well as reach out to cultures that we don’t really get to meet in these tiny Hungarian settlements. Day by day, miraculous encounters take place between creators and consumers of art in an extraordinary, and yet ever-so-natural fashion; one wouldn’t dare to dream it’d all work out in such a way. Ukrainian, Turkish, Moroccan, Indian and Hungarian-gypsy people making music together, and spend time with the good old Mr and Mrs Kisharsány, who possibly never in their lives left the village before.

Berend - the scene of the great outdoors classical music concerts: Mozart's Requiem, Symphony 9 from Beethoven, as well as Félix Lajkó's and the Dohnányi Symphony Orchestra's concerts were intoned here.