DESCRIPTION:
With members from Ukraine, Hungary and Australia, Gypsy world fusion band Lolo Lovina draw influences from across Eastern Europe, French chanson and Tango. The bulk of the band's lyrics are in Romani, the language of the gypsies, and it is from this language that the band derived their name. The band features half Australian, half Hungarian Romani-Gypsy singer Sarah Bedak, double bassist Jara Johnson -Anderson, Ukrainian accordionist & saxophonist Leonid Beshei, guitarist David Carr , Matthew Baistow on tenor banjo, and Sam Golding on Trumpet, Trombone and Tuba for that extra brassy Balkan Gypsy feel!
Sydney born singer Sarah Bedák fronts the band with a truly captivating voice. Her ancestry is Budapest Romani-Gypsy (her grandfather was a well-known Gypsy violinist who played with Sandor Lakatos). Sarah recently returned from a study tour of Serbia and Hungary where she had the opportunity to study with and collaborate with members of Kal, Gypsy Trick Orkestra and Ando Drom. Ukrainian accordionist Leonid Beshlei grew up in Bukovina and has played gypsy music & jazz across the Europe, USSR and at all the major festivals & venues in Australia."