Ensembles from nine localities in Moldova and Romania took part on 27 August in the seventh edition of the folklore festival in Independence Square, with a folk costume parade and a crafts fair.
The «Sânziene Unghenene» folk festival reached its seventh edition on Sunday, 5 July — held for the first time in the heart of the city, in the Scuarul Înfrățirii square and Piața Independenței, after the May floods left the island on Delia Lake unusable. Alongside the Palace of Culture's ensembles, the organisers brought honoured guests from Romania to Ungheni, among them folk singer Crina Prața from Turda, Cluj county.
On Sunday, three ensembles turned the stage in Micul Cluj Park into an evening of dance and song, under the “Cultural Summer in the Park” banner of the House of Culture. Beyond the “Hai la Joc și voie bună” show, the story is about how a park named in honour of the twin city of Cluj-Napoca has become, summer after summer, Ungheni's great open-air hall — and the next big event is the Sânziene festival, on 5 July.
