Hungarian duo to entertain
A duo of from Budapest will perform Hungarian folk music and early music selections with the Echoes of
Poland dance ensemble Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Fine and
Performing Arts at Owens Community College, Oregon Road, Perrysburg Township.
Balazs Nagy and Katalin Benno will play a variety of traditional Hungarian instruments, including the
tekerolant (hurdy gurdy), koboz (lute), and furulya (flute).
from Budapest, Hungary. The performance is free.
Nagy and Benno will also perform Sunday at 3 p.m. at The Hungarian Club of Greater Toledo, 224 Paine
Ave., Toledo. Call (419) 508-7019 for information on that show.
Polka radio show airs
A new radio show featuring Polish-American style polka can now be heard Sunday from 8 to 10 a.m. on WXUT
88.3 FM as well as online at www.wxut.com.
Host David J. Jackson, an associate professor of political science at Bowling Green State University,
features Polish-American style polkas, waltzes and obereks, as well as some Slovenian, other ethnic
polkas and Polish pop and folk music.
Jackson has hosted broadcasts in Detroit and Saginaw, Mich. He has traveled extensively in Poland,
including teaching for a semester on a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Lodz, in Central Poland
.
He wrote a book, "Classrooms and Barrooms: An American in Poland," about his experience there.
Exhibit probes illness, art
TOLEDO – An exhibit "What’s Wrong with Me? Art and Disease" opens April 22 in the Hitchcock
Gallery at the Toledo Museum of Art.
The exhibit was curated by art history students from the University of Toledo students.
The exhibition will remain on view through Aug. 7.
The show includes 31 works of art, including prints, three-dimensional objects and a video.
Three themes emerge from the selected works: disease is part of life; isolation and social stigma have
accompanied various diseases at different times in human history; and disease can inspire hope, faith
and compassion for one another.
