Tanchaz Talk INTERVIEWS - Zsigmond "Zsigi" Vucic - April 5, 2021

Zsigmond “Zsigi” Vucic was born in Switzerland and now lives in the Gyimes valley of Transylvania. He is a passionate collector, presenter and producer of Hungarian folk music as well as a successful project manager in the international business world. Interview highlights:

Zsigi’s unusual journey from the Swiss Alps to Transylvania’s Carpathian Mountains;
what’s it like living in the mystical Gyimes valley;
the secret to the power of the music of Szaszcsavas;
the origins of his widely-followed SvejciFarkas YouTube channel; and
what a “project manager” really does.

Released on April 5, 2021.

Tanchaz Talk is the world’s only English-language show focusing primarily on Hungarian folk music. The show combines a mix of music and stories from host Kalman Magyar Jr. (Öcsi), one of North America’s leading Hungarian folk musicians.

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Kalman Magyar has been an instrumental personality in the Tanchaz movement since the 1980’s, first with the band Eletfa in New York, and now with Gyanta in Toronto.

In Hungarian, “Táncház” literally means “dance house,” and is the focal point of the Hungarian roots revival movement. The Táncház movement has been inscribed in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s Register of Good Safeguarding Practices, as “a Hungarian model for the transmission of intangible cultural heritage.”

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