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May 26th 2008 The Fiddlers Elbow, Camden, London RAGE 2 gig
My own acoustic set and as accordionist for acoustic set of Here be Dragons.

September 28th 2007 Bagnocavallo, Italy -Festa Di San Michele with Here be Dragons
(Bagnocavallo a strange name for a town meaning Bath of the Horse!)

September 7th 2007
Talking Heads, Southampton, England, with Here Be Dragons

September 5th 2007 BBC London 94.9 fm The Late show with Jumoka Fashole.
Midnight hour guest and performed live acoustic performances of consecutive Soundclick mp3 internet chart toppers , English language versions of Ridna Maty Moya and Chyrvona Ruta now available from iTunes

August 17th 2007Bottegone, Novellara, Italy as accordionist with Here Be Dragons
I've always wanted to do music related to my Celtic half, so although half Irish, when a Welsh band asked me if I would play accordion with them, I thought "OK, different country, but Celtic roots", and I obliged.

Saturday 18th August 2006, The Ukes played a private function at the exclusive St. Stephens club in St James, London, which reminds me, we've also done the equally exlusive Oriental Club Marble Arch some time earlier, but I cant remember the date.

Saturday July 15th 2006 Ukrainian Social Club, Holland Park London, did a Ukrainian wedding gig with long time friends and associates Zhnyva . An interesting clientelle cross over, Ukrainian traditional meets Heavy Metal Communities event where the bride groom is a member of Decentmetal. Delivered Zhnyvas speciality, a mix of Ukrainian trad and English language pop/rock covers.

Thursday 8th June 2006
BBC London 94.9fm Robert Elms show Thursday 8th June 2006 featuring England WC football song "We still believe that we can win" set to Ukrainian melody that you can hear here: www.the-ukrainian.com

Friday May 26th 2006
Having done accordion on their latest release, "Elvis Lives Here"I supported Swill and The Swagger Band at The Hive, formerly Stripes , and then sessioned with his band for his set. Gig archive here.

Friday April 14th 2006 Houses of Parliament, London
With Zhnyva. British & Ukrainian Government & business function.

January 22nd 2006
Forst near Hanover Germany

June 17th 2005
Greiz Shloss Fest South Eastern Germany.

June 3rd 2005 Stripes
Solo set supporting The Swagger Band

Stripes May 20th 2005
with Andriy Maslyaniy

Feb 10th 2005
BBC Ukraine interview with Oleksander Hryb and airplay of Razom Nas Bahato (Tut na Diyaspori).

Feb 5th 2005
Stripes in Brentford west London, solo spot supporting Swill of The Men they couldnt hang at Stripes , nearest tube South Ealing, West London.

You can read the review on TMTCH's website here Gig review Feb 4th 2004, Brentford

Oct 2nd 2004
Bradford Ukrainian Club

August 24th 2004
Rose, France,

Toronto 11th to 13th June 2004.

Friday 11th June Warm up gig in Trembita Ukrainian Club in Toronto.
Saturday 12th June Promo night at Golden Lion Ukrainian premiere nightspot in Toronto. Excerpts of Rokovyny CD played
Sunday 13th June. Headlined at Fest Ukraine Paramount Canada's Wonderland, The Canadian equivalent of Euro Disney or Florida's Disney. Other acts included Ron Cahute of Burya, Vasyl Popadiuk, world famous Classical Violinist from Ukraine, Brian Potvin of top Canadian Indie band "The Northern Pikes", and The Canadian Bandurist Capella under the directorship of world famous Bandurist Victor Mishalow. This event was also host for Miss Fest Ukraine Pageant, the winner of which automatically goes on to compete in Miss Canada. After gig party involved a few drinks and an impromptu performance from an impromptu duet, myself and Orest Khemiy on keyboards, original drummer from Braty Hadyukiny.

10th December 2003.
"The Ukes" debut gig in England, Ent Shed Bedford

Germany, July 13th 2002 "The Ukes" first ever gig, Forst, near Hannover.

Gig/performance history since The Ukrainians & upcoming gigs/shows