Home Kim's CD's Kim Sanders & Friends Gigs & News Hear the Music Links Contact Kim Kim Sanders with Phanari tis Anatolis at the Sphendoni Theatre, Athens, October 1994. © K Sanders 2002	One of Kim's ongoing projects is a "floating ensemble" of variable size and personnel: Kim Sanders & Friends. The friends include: Born in England, Bobby Singh studied tabla in Bombay with the legendary Nikhil Ghosh, and now divides his time between India and Australia, where he has quickly become a “must see” performer on the world music circuit as well as the Indian Classical scene. He has performed with sarod master Ashok Roy and with many cross-cultural ensembles including Rajasthan (Flamenco/Indian) and Flamenco Dreaming (Aboriginal/Spanish).  He currently works with Circle of Rhythm, The Bird and Dha, amongst others. Australian-born Macedonian clarinettist/saxophonist Blagojce (Bobby) Dimitrevski has degrees from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music but has also learned the old-fashioned way from his father Ivan, also a musician. He has performed extensively in the Macedonian scene in Australia, with Balkan folk/jazz ensemble Mara! and with Nadya and the 101 Candles Orchestra. He can blister the paint off the walls. Double-bassist Steve Elphick has been for many years regarded as one of Australia’s most creative improvising musicians. He has made many overseas tours with folk-jazz group Mara! and played with jazz greats including Lee Konitz and Steve Lacey. In Australia he has performed and recorded extensively with cutting-edge improvising bands including The World According to James, The Andrew Robson Trio, Ten Part Invention, Bernie McGann Trio and The Umbrellas. Another Australian World Music pioneer, Llew Kiek (bouzouki, bağlama, guitar, tambura, keyboards) has recorded 10 albums and performed in 20 countries with ARIA-winning folk-jazz group Mara!  In Australia he has worked with The Bisserov Sisters, Tenzing Tsewang, The Silvia Entcheva Trio, Martenitsa, Nakisa, the Renaissance Players, Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre and singers Jeannie Lewis and Margret RoadKnight. He was Australian World Music Instrumentalist of the year 1999. Turkish-born Ozkan Bayar is a monster on baglama, cumbus, bouzuki and banjo. He has recorded and performed in Turkey and Europe with Turkish heavyweights including Munzur, Murat Bektas, Hakan Demirtas, Emre Saltik, Ferhat Tunc and Veysel Agbaba. Just before moving to Australia in 2006, he was featured in his own music programme on Vision TV in Turkey. In Australia he also performs with Yellow Monday. Saxophonist, composer and three-time ARIA-winner Sandy Evans is one of Australia’s leading performers in contemporary jazz. She has played and recorded extensively in Australia and overseas with her own Sandy Evans Trio, Clarion Fracture Zone, The catholics, austraLYSIS, the Australian Art Orchestra, MARA!, Bernie McGann, Waratah and many visiting American artists. Named Australian Jazz Artist of the Year at the 2003 Bells Awards. Singapore-born percussionist Tony Lewis has collaborated with leading musicians from many cultures, including Aboriginal dancer/musician Matthew Doyle, koto-player Satsuki Odamura, harmonic singer David Hykes and sitarist Raj Kumar Sharma. He has also worked with Southern Crossings, Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre, Nakisa, Waratah and Dhamor Percussion. He has studied and performed in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Percussionist Ron Reeves lived and studied for many years in Indonesia, and specialises in traditional instruments from West Java and South India. In a long and varied career he has played with the Trilok Gurtu, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Nigeria's Lebe Olarinjo Masqueraders, the Karnataka College of Percussion, Billy Cobham and Hossam Ramzy. He leads two Indonesian-based groups, Warogus and Earth Music and also performs with GengGong and Trio Dingo. Multi-instrumentalist Blair Greenberg has played guitar, steel drums, djembe, didgeridoo, marimba, darabukka and all kinds of percussion (not to mention electric neck) in many countries with Trio Dingo, Epizo Bangoura's African Express, Muhammad Bangoura, Zulya Kamalova, Christine Anu, The Flying Fruitfly Circus, the Electra String Quartet, Jeannie Lewis, Xenos and the very strange Paranormal Music Society. Singer Linda Marr is one of the world music and a cappella scene's most respected and talented personalities. Acknowledged as a pioneer in bringing world music to a wider audience in Australia, Linda has appeared on more than 20 CDs and toured extensively in Australia and overseas. A founding member of and Blindman's HolidayKeklik Aile, Linda has also performed with Tokakros, Cumana and with Kim in Nakisa. Reformed rock star, dancer, singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, choreographer, actor, producer and social activist Sawung Jabo is well-versed in traditional Indonesian performing arts as well as contemporary forms. He is highly respected for the energy, beauty and passion of his words and music. He has released twelve top-selling albums in Indonesia, and performed in Japan, Korea and the US. Enigmatic Kiwi Peter Boyd is the composer of the Martian National Anthem. He also plays bass and baritone saxophones with intergalactic intensity. He has performed with Mic Conway’s National Junk Band, Jackie Orszcaszki’s Budget Orchestra, Brassov and his own seriously bent saxophone quartet The Original Otto Orchestra. The only member of Kim Sanders & Friends weighing less than his instrument, he is a genuine saxophone heavyweight. Singer, composer and master of the bouzouki, baglama, cura and guitar, George Doukas has performed with such Greek luminaries as Sakellariou, Doukissa and Floriniotis as well as a multitude of local Greek artists. He was musical  co-director for internationally-screened Concert 2000.  In recent years he has has been involved in several exciting collaborations with musicians from other cultures. Drummer Toby Hall has played and recorded with outstanding Australian improvisers including Mike Nock, Lloyd Swanton, Bernie McGann, Alister Spence and Sandy Evans as well as leading his own groups. He has also played with many visiting performers including jazz vocal legend Sheila Jordan.  Montreal Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, New York’s famous Knitting Factory – Toby’s been there, done that. Peter Kennard has studied drumming in West Africa and performed in Japan with Colin Offord’s Great Bowing Company, in Turkey with the Turkish State Theatre, in the US and Europe with performance group Stalker and in Vanuatu with Celtic harpist/singer Cathie O’Sullivan. In Australia he has played with sarod virtuoso Ashok Roy, Moussa Diyakite’s Badema, the Flying Fruitfly Circus, Chai Chang Ning, Flamenco Dreaming and Brassov. Davood Tabrizi studied percussion and Persian string instruments at Tehran Conservatorium and the Uni of Tehran before coming to Australia in 1979. He has performed in many pioneering cross-cultural bands including Tansey’s Fancy and Nakisa, toured America with his own group Far Seas, and has written award-winning scores for theatre productions and films including The Navigator and Serenades.