MAY
May 27
Day of puppeteers and children
JUNE
June 20 - 24
8th Animation Film Festival Kecskemet
June 18 - 24
Kecskemet Wine Festival I.
June 28 – July 1
Kecskemet Summer Festival I.
AUGUST
August 3
Kodaly Arts Festival Final Concert
8:00 PM @ the Great Church
Kodaly-Bartok World Youth Orchestra and Choir
Conductor: Tamas Vasary
August 6 - 12
Kecskemet Wine Festival II. -- Main Square
August 7 - 12
Kecskemet Summer Festival II.
Free concerts on the Main Square stage @ 8.30 PM:
- Wednesday, August 8: Bikini rock concert
- Thursday, August 9: Adagio concert
- Friday, August 10: The Shadow Hungary Band concert
- Saturday, August 11: Al Di Meola & Midsummer Night Quartet concert
- Sunday, August 12: The Jungle Book musical -- Performed by Pannon Varszinhaz
August 20
Saint Stephen's Day Celebration
- All day @ the Benko Zoltan Leisure Center (the grounds right next to The Hill, Domb)
- Amusement park, fair, horseback riding
- PM events on stage
- 10:00 PM -- Fireworks
August 27 – September 2
Kecskemet Wine Festival III.
August 28 - September 2
Hiros Week Festival
Tuesday, August 28
- 4:00 PM: Procession of the Wine Orders of Chivalry from the Kocsis Pal High School of Agriculture to the Main Square stage
- 5:00 PM: Opening Ceremony of the "Hiros Week Festival" @ the Main Square stage -- talk by Dr. Gabor Zombor, mayor of Kecskemet, followed by the performance of the Kecskemet Dance Ensemble
- 8:00 PM: "The Hammer of the Town" (A helyseg kalapacsa) -- Performed by the Honved Dance Company Budapest
Wednesday, August 29
- 5:00 PM: Opening of "St. Elizabeth's Rose Garden", rose display commemorating the 800th year from the birth of Elizabeth of Hungary (1207 – 17 November 1231), daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary. The rose exhibit will be open between 10:00 AM and 8:00 PM till September 1st, and 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM on September 2nd, in the City Hall's Courtyard
- 7:00 PM Kurazsi Folk Dance Group of Kecskemet
Thursday, August 30
Friday, August 31
- 2:00 PM: 8th International Song and Dance Reunion, with the participation of Serbian and Hungarian folk ensembles, including the Kek nefelejcs ziter band of Tiszakecske -- Main Square stage
- 7:00 PM: Notazzunk (Let's Sing) -- Hungarian folk songs and Gypsy music on the Main Square stage
SEPTEMBER
September 1
II. Kecskemet Vintage Festival -- Benko Zoltan Leisure Center
Saturday, September 1
September 2
- 10:00 PM: Fireworks on the Main Square, concluding the "Hiros Week Festival"
September 20-23
Third Hungarian Jew's Harp Festival
OCTOBER
October 23
Commemoration and wreathing at the 1956 Monument -- Main Square
NOVEMBER
November 9 - 11
Interior Design Exhibition and Fair -- Erdei Ferenc Cultural Center
November 16 - 17
TOUREX - SPA Health and Wellness Tourism Exhibition and Fair -- Erdei Ferenc Cultural Center
November 19
Final Concert of the St. Elizabeth year
- Kecskemet Symphonic Orchestra, choir (Liszt: Legend of St. Elizabeth)
- 7:00 PM @ the Katona Jozsef Theater
DECEMBER
December 1 – 22, 2007
Kecskemet Winterfest 2007 – FECCC
Erdei Ferenc Kulturalis es Konferencia Kozpont
From December 1st
Christmas Fair
December 14 - 16
Kodaly Anniversary Programs @ Memorial places and institutions of Kodaly
December 17
Concert celebrating the 125th anniversary of Kodaly's birth
- Kecskemet Symphonic Orchestra, Teacher's Choir
- 7:00 PM @ the Katona Jozsef Theater
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