Fono Records, Budapest

This is one of the best world music stores in town and it definitely has the best regional folk selection. More importantly however, the Fono music house sponsors the Utolso Ora (Final Hour) program, whereby regional village ensembles are brought to Budapest to be recorded and to give dance house performances at the Fono. This is a labour of love, preserving the dying but still very rich musical heritage of ethnic groups in Transylvania, Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romania and other regions. These groups are recorded on Fono's own label.