The American musician, composer, storyteller, and performer Danny Bain arrived in Hungary in 2010. Since then, he has created numerous children’s performances and musical projects, touring the country with them. He has been developing his one-man music machine since 2019. While at first it consisted of only 3-4 instruments, it has now grown to be more than 20 different instruments, which, with the help of strings, springs, and pulleys, he plays all at once while walking around, to the astonishment of his audience.
With this remarkable musical contraption, he has been a returning guest at several prestigious events, including the Győrkőc and Bondoró festivals, the Márton Day procession at the Marczibányi Square Cultural Center, as well as various Christmas markets.

Following the Siege of Boston in March 1776, renowned musician, entertainer, and patriot Adelbert Harrington Buxby wrote a letter to General Washington describing a contraption that was sure to “secure immediate and unambiguous victory over those spineless British scoundrels”. Unfortunately, Buxby perished after a storage tank filled with molasses burst, washing away the boarding house where he had been staying. His designs were never found, and the war continued on for another five years until the British finally surrendered in Yorktown in 1781.

Now, after years of extensive research poring over wartime correspondences, newspaper articles, and contemporary accounts of Buxby’s work, Danny Bain has finally completed and perfected the contraption that Buxby, his great-great-great-great-grandfather, had imagined.

Lenght: 30-minute sets