The role of the System-Breaking Grand Concert in Hungary’s struggle for System Change

Tamás Kádár | Sziget Festival

Tamas Kadar

Sziget Festival CEO Tamás Kádár explains how a mass public concert energised voters ahead of Hungary's recent election

This month’s Rendszerbontó Nagykoncert (System-Breaking Grand Concert or ‘SBC’) in Hungary represented far more than a musical event. It was a political statement, a cultural protest, and a symbol of growing dissatisfaction with Hungary’s 16-year standing political system, the Orbán regime.

The six hour long concert was held two days before the elections with the participation of 50 artists on Heroes’ Square in Budapest and an audience of 150,000-200,000 people (no official data is available, but as…

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