Söndörgő

About

Söndörgő is a Hungarian world music band from Szentendre, founded in 1995, built around the Eredics family - three brothers and a cousin - who all teach at the Budapest Academy of Music. Their signature instrument is the tambura, a plucked lute rooted in the Serbian and Croatian communities of Hungary, and their repertoire draws on South Slavic folk traditions collected by Béla Bartók and Tihamér Vujicsics. The 2014 album Tamburocket topped the World Music Charts Europe, and the 2024 album Gyezz - recorded with jazz saxophonist Chris Potter on GroundUP Music - repeated that feat and drew wide acclaim from both world music and jazz press.

World Music Charts Europe peak - Tamburocket (2014)

World Music Charts Europe peak - Gyezz (Sep 2024)

60+

Countries where Tamburising: Lost Music of the Balkans was distributed

30+

Years active (founded 1995)

What's new

2025-05
Söndörgő released their 30th-anniversary album Söndörgő XXX on 9 May 2025 via GroundUP Music, opening with the new single 'from Hungary'.
2025-04
The band celebrated their 30th anniversary with a 'Balkán Allnighter' concert at Dürer Kert in Budapest on 26 April 2025.
2025
Söndörgő launched the XXX 30 Year Anniversary Tour in 2025, marking three decades of the band.
2024-09
The album Gyezz reached number one on the World Music Charts Europe in September 2024, the first time a Hungarian act had topped the chart since Söndörgő's own Tamburocket in 2014.
2024-06
Gyezz, featuring jazz saxophonist Chris Potter, was released on 28 June 2024 on GroundUP Music and received four-star reviews from both Jazzwise and Songlines.