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.
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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
With members from Ukraine, Hungary, Brazil and Australia, high energy Gypsy band Lolo Lovina draw influences from across Eastern Europe and Latin America. The bulk of the band’s lyrics are in Rromani, the language of the gypsies. It is from this language that the band derives their name, which means "Red Beer". The band features Rromani singer Sarah Bedak-Rockliffe, violinist Jess Randall (The Crooked Fiddle Band), bassist Rodrigo Salgado from Brasilia, Ukrainian accordionist Leonid Beshei, guitarist David Carr, and Matthew Baistow on tenor banjo.
Sydney born singer Sarah Bedák-Rockliffe fronts the band with a truly captivating voice. Surrounded with Gypsy music from an early age, as she comes from a Hungarian Rromani family (her grandfather was a well-known Gypsy violinist from Budapest who played with Roby Lakatos’ father, The Bobe Gaspar Erno Orchestra & Sandor Lakatos).
Rapid-fire, whirl-wind violinist Jess Randall has featured in many festivals across Australia both with Lolo Lovina & her own outfit, the Crooked Fiddle Band.
Romanian accordionist Leonid Beshlei grew up in Bukovina and has played gypsy music & jazz across the Europe & USSR, as well as performing in philharmonic and folkloric orchestras in Ukraine and Moldova.
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We of Lolo Lovina, have our very own touring Gypsy Caravan Stage...here is a little about her...
‘Lolo’ is a 16 foot, 1978 Viscount Royale, aluminium, deep red spotted, antique white Gypsy caravan that converts to a stage in less than 2 minutes!
She has been modified so that her left wall is piano hinged at the top, which when pushed out, becomes a steel framed, steel supported awning. This then reveals Lolo’s lounge room interior complete with retro, wrap around, cushioned lounge seat, imported red flock wallpaper, antique mantle clock, b&w pictures of Gypsy ancestors, old suitcases, air tickets, maps, a world globe, flying ducks, rich red lamps etc... She is particularly appealing at night complete with fairy lights and the inner glow of her lamps. As Lolo stage is close to the ground, this creates a very intimate area for performance to occur....see images below from 2009 Aroma Festival in the Rocks, Sydney...or should that be..A Rroma Festival!
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18 juin : Apéro concert à La Péniche / Chalon sur Saône (71) 20 juin : Fête de la musique / St jean de Bournet (38) 21 juin : Fête de la musique / LA Tour Du Pin (38) 03 Juillet : Red Rock Café en estérieur / Vienne (38) 04 Juillet : Festival la Pamparina / Thiers (63) 05 juillet : Festival « GEMME la résistance » / Sanguinet (40) 07 juillet : Le Live / Soustons plage (40) 11 juillet : Swingalamolette / St Julien Molin Molette (42) 13 juillet : Place de la Liberté / Annonay (07) 17 juillet : Festival 1 brin d’Zic / St Julien (74) 18 juillet : Le King du Lac / Neuchatel / Suisse 24 juillet : Le Jean’s Café / Dieulefit (26) 25 juillet : les terrasses de l’été / Hericourt (70) 30 juillet : Festival CinéFil / St Colombe (69) 20 aout : Le Théâtre Municipal / La Bourboule (63) 22 aout : La TAHOUA dans les bois / (01) 29 aout : Festival de Cléppé 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Zdorov Sarah and Lolo Lovina! Just recently got your cd and have been listening to it constantly in the car. Just wanted to say its really good. Well done guys! All the best, but baxt, vs'oho najkrashchoho, Bodjo xx
i'm so happy to bring joy and delight to other's lives. It's such good timing that we have met today. I'm sure you and your 3 year old will enjoy my new video of one of my adventures, which i am adding to myspace soon...but i'll keep you posted!
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