Nigun News

2011 September

Nigun's Birtday Celebration!

The Birthday concert series celebrating the 10th birthday of the band with four
performances in September. Back in 2001 the first concert ever of Nigun was on the very end of August. To commemorate to the beginnig the celebration series starts on the 31th August and runs 'till 29th September. Details here.

Features:

  • Kristof Bacso - sax
  • Istvan Balo - drums
  • Jozsef Barcza Horvath - bas
  • Peter Bede - sax
  • Robert Benko - bass
  • Matt Darriau - clarinet, kaval
  • Gyorgy Jeszenszky - drums
  • Csaba Gavaller - drums
  • Miklos Lukacs - cimbalom
  • Peter Nagy - bass
  • Andras Parniczky - leader, guitar
  • Zsolt 'Sarvari' Kovacs - drums
  • Daniel Váczi - sax
  • Janos Vazsonyi - sax

A sampler from one of the concerts: Birthday 10@ BJC.

2010 November

Nigun's albums available online!

Finally! All the three albums of Nigun are available for purchase at various online distributors: iTunes, CDBaby, Amazon MP3, eMusic, Rhapsody, Napster, Myspace Music, Spotify, Liquid Digital, Verizon V-Cast, Shockhound, Last.fm.

2010 August

Mike Gerber - Jazz Jews

Mike Gerber's book titled Jazz Jews just got published recently by Five Leaves Publications. It is a nice overview of the last decade and mentions thousands of musicians with jewish roots. Among people like Michael Brecker, Terry Gibbs, Benny Goodman, Ben Perowsky, Adam Rogers, Gerber also mentions the band led by András Párniczky: Nigun. You can read a short part of the book about Nigun by clicking on the link here: Nigun