Hungary

Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország) is a parliamentary constitutional republic in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, Slovenia to the west, Austria to the northwest, and Ukraine to the northeast. The country's capital and largest city is Budapest. Hungary is a member of the European Union, NATO, the OECD, the Visegrád Group, and the Schengen Area. The official language is Hungarian, which is the most widely spoken non-Indo-European language in Europe.
== Links To Peel ==
thumb|330x330px|Peel at Elvis Park in Hungary from 2:09 of the video
Peel travelled to the country in 1992, as part of a BBC Radio One campaign on work opportunities in Europe. He travelled through different European countries by road and visited Budapest and Elvis Park, an American themed restaurant that was located in an old aeroplane, in Abda, near Győr. The restaurant has since been closed down.
Hungary is famous for its contributions to classical music rather than to pop or jazz, although some well-known British and American musicians are of Hungarian descent, including Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler and jazz guitarist Gabor Szabo, who made a name for himself after emigrating to the USA, and in the late 1960s gained a following among hippy listeners due to his Indian-influenced style. Peel praised one of his LPs in his International Times column but doesn't seem to have played anything by Szabo on his shows of the period. 
Towards the end of communist rule in the late 1980s, Hungarian musicians began to be played on Peel's show and one of them, Márta Sebestyén, did a session for his programme in 1988. Muzsikás, the group with which Sebestyén sang, were also favourites of Peel and his colleague Andy Kershaw. 
== Sessions ==
The following artists from Hungary recorded sessions for the John Peel Show:
*Corvin Dalek: (1 session, 2002)
*Márta Sebestyén: (1 session, 1988)
== See Also ==
* Countries
* Muzsikás
== External Links ==
* Wikipedia
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