Vesna Panic
Guitar & Voice

Vesna comes from Novi Sad on the River Danube in Serbia. She arrived in England as an asylum seeker and has lived in Sheffield for nearly eleven years. Before the war broke out she sang in two bands in Yugoslavia, and made many recordings in her friend’s studios. In those days she mainly sang jazz and Latin American songs, in her beautifully clear, powerful and haunting voice.

Lindsay Aitkenhead
Viola & Violin

Lindsay's main interest is the viola in everything - and she has performed in ensembles ranging from Eastern European folk music and klezmer to the punk band Mnemonics, to an Arts Council Contemporary Music Network tour with the Acrobats of Desire. She researched the viola in folk music in England at the University of Sheffield, see www.folkviola.com for details. She composed original music and performed in theatrical productions, ranging from a national tour of “Hassan of Baghdad” by the Stage One Theatre Company, to the Snapdragon Circus. More recently she was musical director and viola player with the klezmer and storytelling band Tashbain. Recent work with young people included a major residency in the North Pennines, where Lindsay performed and ran workshops with literally thousands of young people in schools and youth groups. Lindsay is a regular performer on Radio Sheffield’s Global Sounds show, and has played her viola at numerous international festivals including the Hay Literary Festival, Festival at the Edge, and at Limmud, which is the major Jewish cultural festival in the UK.