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SATURDAY - 9.00pm - Creative Nations
With members from Romania, Hungary and Brazil, hi-octane Aussie band Lolo Lovina claim influences from Eastern European Gypsy music, French Chanson & Tango.
Only forming 2007, this electrifying and technically impressive Sydney-based group brings together some very exciting individual talents. Rromani Gypsy singer Sarah Bedak-Rockliffe, whirlwind violinist Jess Randall of Crooked Fiddle fame, Romanian accordion virtuoso Leon Beshlei, conservatorium trained guitarist David Carr & Brazils' own Rodrigo Salgado on Bass.
website: www.myspace.com/lololovinamusic
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Band Members
Matthew Baistow:
Matthew has played guitar & banjo professionally in Australia and
Ireland since 1995 in a diverse range of styles: rock, jazz, folk,
Irish and classical music. He has a BMus(hons) in Composition from
Newcastle University, and received a scholarship to study honors at the
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2005.
Sarah Bedak-Rockliffe: Sarah has been surrounded by
Gypsy music from an early age as she comes from a musical Hungarian
Romany (Gypsy) family. Her Grandfather played violin for Sandor Lakatos
and for the Bobe Gaspor Erno Orkestra in Budapest, Hungary. Sarah’s
professional musical career started at age seven at the Regent Theatre,
Sydney. Credits include: Khamoro (Czech Romany Band), Rigo Baci,
Cicada, the Martinitsa Choir and Lolo Lovina.
Leonid Beshei: Leonid grew up in Bukovina which borders
the Ukraine & Romania. He started playing the accordion at a very
young age & went on to study Button Accordion at the Chermovtse
Institude of music, Bukovina. Some credits include: Phillharmonic &
Folkloric orchestra’s in Ukraine and Moldova, playing Jazz and Gypsy
music all over USSR & Europe as well as playing brass in the USSR
Army band with over 1200 other musicians! After arriving in Sydney,
Leonid played brass in the Army reserve band and has played in
countless festivals and venues around Australia.
David Carr: David completed a Bmus.studies(musicology)
degree at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2004, and has studied
with many influential and inspirational teachers including Judy Bailey,
Bill Motzing, James Muller, Joseph Tawadros, Ben Hauptmann, John
Morris, Steve Brien and Richard Anderson. He performs in several
groups, including Lolo Lovina, Mariachi Australia and Tapestries of
Sound.
Jess Randall: Jess’ music has garnered airplay on
Triple J and been used across a wide array of soundtrack projects,
including films at the Berlin International Film Festival, a
documentary on artistic roller skating, and perhaps the ultimate in
bizarre applications: accompanying the Australian Olympic Duet team at
the FINA World Synchronised Swimming Championships. Her amazing fiddle
playing can also be heard in folk duo Will of the Wood and psycho gypsy
metal project The Crooked Fiddle Band.
Rodrigo Salgado: Rodrigo’s studies include double bass
at the Conservatorium of Gustav Hitter, Brazil; music Composition at
the University of Brazillia, Brazil; and electric bass at Escola de
Musica de Brazillia, Brazil. He has performed with banda 80, orquestra
Motown, Trio Samauma, Banda Joao Ninguem, Rent- the musical, MPtrio and
Lolo Lovina.
Influences
Eastern
European Gypsy music, French, Irish, Tango, Heavy metal, and all good
music. Some of our favorite artists include but are not limited to:
Roby Lakatos, Taraf, Bratch, Piaf, Bamboula Ferret, Jacques Brell, Tom
Waits, Astor Piazzolla, Besh o Drom, the Crooked Fiddle Band, Kulture
Shock, Gogo Bordello, Les Yeux Noir, Monsieur Camembert & Arbat
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