This year, in addition to Sir Tom Jones, the festival, which takes place at three locations in Veszprém, is waiting for its audience exclusively with concerts by Hungarian artists. The Grammy Award-winning Welsh singer will take the stage at the Veszprém Arena on August 19. In addition to his best-known world hits, his program will also include songs from his latest studio album, Surrounded by Time
This year's VeszprémFest program is complete: the Cotton Club Singers, Concerto Budapest and Zenevonat, which plays LGT hits, will also perform at the festival, which will be held between August 17 and 21.
On August 17, Zenevonat will play the songs of the fifty-year-old LGT band in História Kert. The backbone of the band is former members of LGT, János Karácsony James and János Solti, as well as Nika Mónika Veres and Biga Gábor Heincz. Mariann Falusi, Misi Mező, Iván Vitáris and Roy will also take the stage, and the production's permanent band, Abrakazbra, will also take the stage. In addition to the LGT songs, the concert program also includes hits performed by Klári Katona, Kati Kovács and Sándor Révész.
On August 18, Jazz+Az will take the stage in História Kert, where on August 20 the audience can enjoy the concert program of Concerto Budapest, led by András Keller, Ferenc Snétberger and Roby Lakatos. In the production entitled Rhapsódia, classical, symphonic and world music, as well as musical traditions of Hungarian and Romani origin, jazz and rock and roll appear at the same time. Details of the works of Enescu, Liszt, Brahms, Sarasate and Elvis Presley hits will also be played at the performance. The concert will feature opera singer Xénia Sárközi, a soloist of the Hungarian State Opera House, and the Old Sounds band led by Gábor Homoky.
On August 21, as the last main stage program of the festival, the Cotton Club Singers will give a concert in História Kert. In their jubilee program entitled Four Hundred, they select from the most popular hits of their career, and also play songs from the band's Sinatra and Abba Jazz evenings. Here will be the formation's five most defining singers, Orsolya Kozma, Gabriella Szűcs, Adrienn Zsédenyi, Gábor Fehér and László Boldizsár, the Veszprém Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra will participate, accompanied by the eight-member Cotton Club Band, consisting of wind players and rhythm instruments.
At the other outdoor venue of the festival, the Jesuit Church Garden, the audience can see three productions in the framework of the Cziffra100 commemorative year under the title VeszprémFest Classic. Erika Miklósa and János Balázs will give a concert entitled ZongOpera on August 17 as the opening act of the series. On August 18, János Balázs, József Lendvay and Béla Szakcsi Lakatos will take the stage with the program Paganini+. On August 19, viewers can listen to the Cziffra Café evening by Kátya Tompos and János Balázs.
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