Dave Kelbie has acquired an international reputation as a promoter of Gypsy music and culture which has led to acclaimed music partnerships with many of Europes leading Gypsy musicians. [more >]
Started her music career at the age of 8, Mirella trained in classical guitar and opera. In a popular singing partnership with her sister Téa, she worked as professional musician in the former Yugoslavia for fifteen years. [more >]
Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia where she trained in classical guitar and opera. Since living in the UK Téa has appeared on both television and radio and with Mirella sang on the soundtrack for Channel 4's award winning series, "Bloody Bosnia". [more >]
Joined Szapora in March 2000. His playing features a wonderful mixture of fierce grooving pizzicato and olympic style bowing, the like of which the band hasn’t yet seen, and which adds a new and fantastic dimension so crucial to the music. [more >]
Vanja is one of the most accomplished accordionists to come out of Poland in recent years. He is self taught and was touring Poland playing concerts, parties, weddings etc before he was invited to come and play in the UK in 1995. [more >]
Luke Carver Goss has performed with Szapora since 1998. He also works with violinist Oli Wilson-Dickson in the duo 'Fidaddle', who are currently playing at folk festivals around Britain. [more >]
Has been studying the violin since the age of six. Born into a family of musicians, he was raised on a diet of traditional, world, jazz and contemporary music and studied music at the University of York. [more >]
Dylan Fowler first came to prominence in the Miller/Fowler Latin Jazz Guitar Duo in the early eighties. In January 1998 Fowler was invited to join the group Szapora. [more >]
