Members of La Banda:
- Four Hurdy Gurdies from France
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- Pascal Lefeuvre
- Anne Lise Foy
- Andras Vigh
- Patrice Villaume
- Four Nyckelharpas from Sweden
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- Ditte Anderson
- Markus Svensson
- Erik Rydvall
- Magnus Holmström
- Cello (doubling on musical saw)
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- Su-a Lee
- Three Scottish pipers (all doubling on whistle)
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- Simon McKerrell
- Findlay Macdonald
- Fraser Fifield
- Galician Gaita (Spain)
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- Edelmiro Fernandez
- Asturian Gaita (Spain)
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- Guillermo Perez
- Serbian Gaide (bagpipes ,doubling on Kaval)
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- Slobodan Trkulja
- Two Duduks (Armenia)
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- Tigran Aleksanyan (Doubling on zurna )
- Vahé Hovanesian (Doubling up on Dahul and clarinet, Armenian drum)
- English concertina (England) also Northumbrian bagpipes
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- Alistair Anderson
- Two Panderttas from Asturias (Spain)
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- Maria Gavieiro Alvarez
- Natalie Nuno Rodriguez
- Dulzaina from Valencia (Spain)
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- Francisco Blasco
- Klesmer Button Accordion (Austria)
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- Lothar Lasser
- Bass Clarinet (Scotland)
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- Dick Lee
- Carnyx (Scotland) also Bass trombone
- Tuba (England)
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- Keith (Tank) Sharples
- Bass Saxophone (England)
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- Mick Foster
- Trumpet (Serbia)
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- Bojan Petrovic
- Trumpet and Mellophonium (Scotland)
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- Ryan Quiggley
- Trumpet (Scotland)
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- Ruari Wilson
- Mellophonium and Tenor horn (England)
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- Sandy Smith
- Davul (Turkish drum)
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- Oscar kamstra
- Bones and percussion (Netherlands)
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- Alan (Gunga) Purves
- Percussion (Scotland)
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- James Mackintosh
- Marimba and Vibraphone (Scotland)
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- Jenny Hoy
- Musical associate and conductor
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- Rick Taylor
- Composer and MD
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- Jim Sutherland
- We also have worked with Choirs (raised locally to each performance see 'Before the Wolf')
- 2 Boy sopranos from the Vienna Boys Choir
Reviews of La Banda Europa
"The Hurdy Gurdies are amazing to look at, like Elizabethan ships, with a sound somewhere between the violin and the bagpipes. The nykelharpas are similar, having a strange, other-worldly sound to them."
"All in all we've got some incredible musicians, some of the very best in the world on their particular instruments."... ..."The Armenians play an ancient instrument called the duduk made from the wood of the apricot tree and which sounds like a woman singing alto."
"Instruments like the ancient Celtic carnyx will grab the eye - it's the only one of its kind in the world and was reconstructed from one found in bogland in Scotland. It's a bronze war horn which was 6ft long and held vertically above the player's head."
"Bagpipes of 5 countries, Swedish nyckelharpas, Armenian duduks, Turkish drums, trumpeters from Scotland and Serbia... ...Many of the players in the Banda Europa are exciting composers in their own right."
