Melinda Fields has been
playing Balkan accordion since
2000, studying with the
legendary Ivan Milev since
2005 and performing numerous
times with him at Balkan
festivals and folk dances.  She
is a classically trained pianist,
and teaches at the University
of Connecticut.
Henry will write
something.  I don't
know how he
learned, but what an
incredible drummer!  
What a rock!  What
inventiveness.  
What good taste!  
What a beard!
David Golber has been playing
Balkan-style clarinet for decades.  
He speaks Macedonian, and has
studied in the Republic of
Macedonia with Risto Krapovski,
Bajsa Arifovska, and others.
Corinna Snyder has been singing
music from the Balkans for many
years.  She has studied in Bulgaria
and the US with singers who are
masters of intensely local traditions,
and with singers who are soloists
with internationally recognized choirs
and bands, including Esma
Redzepova, Kremena Stancheva,
Janka Rupkina, and Valya Balkanska.  
She also composes and arranges
Balkan-based vocal works, and plays
bass.   
Click here for that great publicity
picture of the four of us.