Gyanta Band is North America’s preeminent Hungarian folk music group. Drawn from the vibrant Canadian-Hungarian communities of Montreal and Toronto, they belong to the upper echelon of musicians based in North America specializing in the unique and centuries-old folk music of the Hungarian villages located in Hungary, Transylvania, and beyond. Gyanta’s members have recorded extensively and performed at festivals, concerts, and Hungarian community-based events and “tanchaz” events (Hungarian folkdance parties) throughout the world. Since its founding in 2006, the band has been featured at folk festivals, accompanied many Hungarian dance groups in North America, toured the U.S. Midwest, served as the house-band at camps and workshops, performed at large-scale folk festivals, and collaborated with several well-known solo artists from Hungary and Transylvania. Read more about them at
www.gyanta.com.
Trio LunAy is comprised of three friends who love playing Eastern European music together. Zina Pozen, originally from Ukraine, is an accordion player and sometimes singer with eclectic tastes, and performs with a number of Klezmer, Balkan, and Eastern European bands in the Bay Area. Lee Corbie-Wells, a native San Franciscan, has been playing and singing traditional fiddle music since the age of six. Starting with traditional Scottish music, she has also branched out into Eastern European genres, as well as Blues, Jazz, and Metal. Jonnie Pekelny spent her childhood in St. Petersburg, Russia where she learned a deep love of Russian folk and old Soviet pop music. Jonnie later received classical training at UC Santa Cruz and has performed classical music, but is primarily a folk singer who, aside from performing her native Russian songs, has recently been adding some Ukrainian repertoire
