Yes, you can applause.
I hope there is lot of applause to come.
Ladies and gentlemen, dear young friends, dear audience.
The new working week has started and we are very glad,
that right this first working day of Monday,
we can enhance with a culture, with a music and arts.
In the name of all organizers I welcome you all
at the place of the Town cultural centre in Kežmarok
at this very interesting musical event,
which today´s inspiring concert undoubtedly is.
I promise you a lot of emotions.
I believe we can fulfill this intention.
Except the emotions you will see the temperament,
the music, the beauty, the youth and the joy on this stage.
Ladies and gentlemen,
the organizer of today´s, we can say, pre-Christmas concert,
is Private secondary vocational school in Kežmarok,
which have mixed business with pleasure.
The students of this school, who are musically talented,
have the unique opportunity
to sing or to dance on this stage,
with such a great person of Slovak music heaven,
as Ján Berky Mrenica Junior.
On today´s concert, you will have an opportunity to listen
not only to students of Private secondary vocational school in Kežmarok,
but also to the Devil´s violin and Ján Berky Mrenica Junior.
Plus, for even more experiences,
you will listen to our special guest from Poland
Mr. Jozef Merstein Jochymczyk.
Whole today´s concert is being realized from a certain project.
And that project was organized in a spirit of Slovak-Polish co-operation.
As I mentioned before, these gentlemen, Mr. Ján Berky Mrenica Junior
and the the Association of Roma in Poland,
they put not only their heads, but surely also their voices and their hands together
and within this beautiful project Music without borders
they´ve been working and making music for several months.
And the result of their mutual cooperation is a CD,
which will be released before Christmas,
or more precisely, you will have an opportunity to buy it.
Well, that was a little bit of introduction to today´s concert.
We are very happy, that you´ve accepted our invitation
and this December´s afternoon or this early evening
will be a musical enrichment for you.
Let me welcome you one more time at this concert
and as Mr. Berky Mrenica will come a little bit later,
I would like to welcome personally, of course except the students,
welcome one more time all our guests and to send them your applause.
So, ladies and gentlemen,
Welcome to the concert of The Devil´s violin of Ján Berky Mrenica Junior
and Mr. Jozef Merstein Jochymczyk.
We had welcomed the people , who are in charge of a program.
Now, let me welcome our precious guests,
who are attending today´s concert.
Please, let me welcome The Slovak Government Plenipotentiary for Romani Communities
Mr. Peter Pollák.
You see, my eyes are looking around who will rise and wag his head.
And he just went at the moment.
So, as soon as he comes back, please, turn all the heads this direction.
You will see the gentleman, we´ve welcomed a while ago.
Well, to make all these applause not be wasted,
let me welcome another guests.
The representatives of the territorial, of the state administration and the municipal administration in Kežmarok.
Today's concert is also attended by the head of the District Office, Mr. Ján Ferencák.
And the representative of a municipal self-government is the head of the Department of Education, Mrs. Renáta Kroková.
And the municipal self-government is also represented by me
as a head of the Organizational-administrative Department
and my name is Marta Lacková.
Thank oyu very much.
One more applause, please.
This my entry is so unplanned.
It was created throughout a tiny moment.
But that´s what I love about the life, that what is unplanned.
What is spontaneous.
So we have an opportunity to realize now that spontaneity,
which belongs to our lives.
First of all, I was asked by maestro,
to fulfill a little bit of the time,
while they prepare everything necessary for playing.
And also I would like to welcome among us
another, very special guest.
At the beginning, we were talking about the project...
Here you can notice some details about the project.
There is written, what was going on.
How the music and whole art is amazing, because
it has no borders whatsoever.
The borders might define the territory of the states,
but there are no borders between people.
What really makes us happy,
because the humanity, the feelings, the emotions, the desires and the dreams
are the same for every one of us.
No matter what borders are limiting his life.
And the idea of the Music without Borders wants to show us all,
that if you´ve got a good idea,
if the idea is connected to something beautiful, creative,
with something we can share with one another
and what can enriches us all,
all borders will disappear then.
Well, and within this Music without borders project
as we mentioned before, cooperated
except these virtuoso and artists,
also the Association of Roman in Poland.
And I found out, that this Association of Roma in Poland
is the biggest Polish association of its kind.
And today´s concert is attended by the president of the Association of Roma in Poland.
And now, I would like to welcome him.
Ladies and gentlemen, the president of an association, Mr. Roman Kwiatkowski.
And I have to mention now,
that at the beginning you could have seen, as you surely know
the students of the Private secondary vocational school in Kežmarok.
I think you will agree with me, that they´ve done a good job.
And our legs were stomping,
evoking the taste to dance in us.
So I hope the pleasant feeling will remain in us whole evening.
And I would like to say, that the group of a young people
who were performing while ago,
they work under the leadership, we could say, of their classmate,
Koloman Hangurbadžo.
So we are sending them one huge applause.
And we are ready.
Ladies and gentlemen, it´s an enormous honor to me,
that such a virtuoso left me the space.
And that I could talk for so long.
But now, our dear guests,
The Devil´s violin and Ján Berky Mrenica Junior.
We were playing at the festival, called Melos-Étos.
So, it might have been just one song of the similar ones.
That´s how it probably looks in the modern classical music.
But seriously.
Once again, I would like to welcome you all here.
I want to wish you a pleasant evening, of course.
And I am happy to play after a long while in Kežmarok.
And I am really happy to bring up here a guest,
who I´m going to welcome personally in a while.
For now, we will play, what I would never skip,
we will play a song, which accompanies me my whole music career.
At the times, when my father, Ján Berky Mrenica Senior was alive,
who had composed this song.
It is called the same as our ensemble.
Thank you very much.
Let me introduce and also to invite to the stage
our friend, I hope a good friend,
with who we´ve met just recently.
And we have committed such a thing,
that we´ve recorded CD, which will be released in a next few days.
He is a Polish interpreter, he is a Polish Roma,
who belongs to the most influential interpreters of Romani songs in Poland.
He is a representative of a trend
of a so-called Sinti Roma, who are a little bit different that we are.
But I think, that...
But, of course, a little bit different than we.
Of course, the reason is,
that the life style of Sinti Roma
and the Roma living in Slovakia and all around the eastern Europe,
who are called Rumungri, I can say, that
it is a little bit different.
But never mind, it is even better,
how it works among us, among the people.
And I would like to introduce him - Jozef Merstein Jochymczyk.
The guitar, singing.
And we are going to play, of course
something from our upcoming album.
The first song is...
Jozef forgot his guitar.
Well, I will tell you, that Jožko has a really famous family.
And I think, for me, as a musician, it is a huge honor,
because Jožko belongs to the family of a famous musicians from Heidelberg,
Rosenbergs.
Wait, they are not the Rosenbergs, who broadcast after 11 P.M.
That´s not them.
But this is the family, which really performs for several generations
at many different world jazz stages.
There is Rosenberg trio young, old, the youngest, the oldest,
they really are virtuoso, real stars.
And such a star is also Jožko.
Thank you.
We continue with another song, which is very well-known, very popular.
I´ve got a brother-in-law, who comes from Austria
and every time we have a family reunion,
he sings this songs and it´s called Last Sunday.
Thank you very much.
One more little request for the master of a sound.
All my violins out of my ear monitor, please.
Thank you very much.
And now a little bit of a longer hall effect on my violin.
Thank you and let´s go.
We are going to play a Gypsy Cry.
Thanks a lot.
Thank you, thank you very much.
Now we are going to play a song called Kali,
about a black girl, who enchanted all the boys around.
Let´s unwind myself.
You have unwind.
You can´t play like that.
So, in our repertoire we have a song of
one significant world composer
and it is an Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla.
He is one of my favourites.
And I think, he had to be Roma, for sure.
Because such a beautiful melodies
and such a temperament dances, tangos, as he was writing,
it´s unbelievably full of emotions, full of heart.
And it really is very beautiful.
Master of sound, everything up, please.
Add some more to the contrabass.
And make it some more space.
Especially in the very first song, thank you very much.
The first song is Oblivion,
what means oblivion.
It is one beautiful, slow song.
And then there will come three real Argentinian tangos.
One is called Tango Bandó.
The second one is called Tango Contrabajeando.
It means tango of a contrabass.
And the third one is called Tango Tzigane
I think I was right.
Well, Astor Piazzolla.
What are these inventions good for?
Now the hall effect could go down, thank you.
Thank you very much.
I´ve got one more little request.
Can we turn off the light?
It always seems to me like if I was at school.
Thank you very much.
Well and now we will play the Peter´s favourite song,
called Mehav mato.
For those, who don´t understand:
I am not drunk.
As the song says, there is a lot of heart,
but small of a vodka.
OK.
Thank you very much.
You know, our ensemble is really multicultural,
I would like to call your attention
to our cimbalom player, he is not Slovak.
Our cimbalom player is from Moldova.
Of course, as every Moldovan, he loves folklore,
which is very close.
And it is Romanian folklore.
And there are few dozens of a very famous musicians in Romania,
of a very famous cimbalom players, and Toni Iordache belongs to them.
A Romanian folk song variations.
Miško Zakhariya.
I don ´t know if I pronounced it right.
Mykhaylo Zakhariya.
The resident of Lučenec, at this time.
You make me play wrong.
He makes it wrong...
You show me the second voice.
The light.
Thank you.
But it was me, who was wrong in the order.
But I got scared of that light, when it turned off.
Well, I would like to call our youngsters on the stage.
Where are they, come.
Come here, bandits.
Muster!
The local band, please.
And while they are getting ready,
please, let me mention, that it is already an advent.
That the Christmas holidays are slowly approaching,
how I love the Christmas!
But I don´t like it at the same time.
Because all this hustle and bustle and the chaos around is terrifying me.
I don´t like that horrible, chaotic shopping of everyone of us.
And then, I don´t like that
I have to work hard on my summer figure after holidays.
Because I´ve got the winter one almost whole year,
but sometimes I manage.
It is always in that thirteenth month.
So, never.
Now, we´re going to play one very famous.
As our program is international, of course,
we´ll play the famous one.
I´ll wait for them.
The viola was played by Peter Koza,
Milan Hronček.
The violin was played by Jozef Berky "Kekso", Štefan Bertók.
The cimbalom was played by
Mykhaylo Zakhariya.
The guitar and the soloist of today´s evening was
Jozef Merstein Jochymczyk.
And one more left, it´s me,
I am Jano Berky Mrenica, so far the youngest.
At this place, I would like to thank
to the Association of Roma in Poland, to Roman Kwiatkowski.
I want to thank to the principal of the Secondary vocational school.
I forgot her name.
But I´ll recall it.
Of course, I want to thank to all of you for staying.
I want to thank to Mr. Plenipotentiary,
who stayed to the end, even he´s here with a little child.
Even that the child stayed.
I´m very happy about it.
And I wish you a lot of happiness, a lot of love.
Of course, to those, who have no work, I wish to find one.
To have such a work, so they can live nicely.
I thank you very much.
Merry Christmas.
And once, here in Kežmarok, good-bye.
Well, young ones, please, let´s start.
Because...
You surely all know it.
Here you go.
Yes!
Thanks a lot.
An improvisation.
Thanks to the local band.
I will call it the Final Destination of Kežmarok.
Today´s.
Thank you very much, indeed.
Once again, I wish you all the best.
Here you are.
I would like to thank to the pedagogues of Secondary vocational school,
to allow us to play with such a wonderful man,
as Ján Berky Mrenica.
A great big thank you to Mrs. founder.
Thank you.
From the violins, the strings and the bow,
the music have flown.
All the body was playing it,
the heart wanted to jump from the chest,
from the timid corner.
Ladies and gentlemen,
to all of these final thanks, let us tie our one as well.
I would like to thank to all the artists, who are still standing on this stage,
in our name, in the name of us, the listeners,
to who you have brought absolutely amazing music cocktail.
I suppose,
we have all enjoyed it to the fullest.
And I really want to thank to the organizer
of today´s fabulous evening.
And as it was mentioned several times today
the Privat secondary vocational school in Kežmarok,
I would like to ask the founder of a school to say some final words,
Mrs. Anna Jurgovianová.
Here you are.
Good evening.
Thank you very much, but I think there´s nothing else to add.
I don´t want to spoil this evening with my speech.
But let me say, it is a great honor for us,
that you are here and that you played with our students.
And that you enriched so beautifully this evening to Kežmarok.
Thank you.
I would like to ask the girls.
Mr. Mrenica, thank you and please, accept a little present from us.
Thank you.
We´ll come next time with a pleasure.
Mr. Jochymczyk, thank you very much for coming to Slovakia
and right here, to Kežmarok.
And that you´ve allowed us to experience such a beautiful evening.
I thank you for an invitation.
Heartfelt thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks.
Our students have prepared the products of wood, fabric and metal.
So I really hope, our friend, who are leaving from here,
will go enriched at least a little bit by what Romani pupils can do.
Mr. plenipotentiary, I can´t leave now without
letting you say at least one sentence this evening.
And I thank you very much for coming here despite your very busy agenda
and that you took part of today´s evening.
So thank you very much to all
and I hope this wasn´t the last concert with us
and Mr. Mrenica and The Devil´s Violin.
And also with Mr. Jochymczyk.
Good evening.
Thanks a million.
Thanks to the audience, thanks to Jano
and to whole his ensemble.
Thank you.
Thanks to all the guests.
I thank you very much as well and I don´t want to be delaying,
because the Farm is starting soon.
Thank you very much, good-bye.