NOTICE:
Due to a Close Contact Case, this performance by Lastovke (Swallows) - Folk Music of Slovenia, will be rescheduled.

We apologise for the inconvenience but Lastovke will perform at Salamanca Arts Centre, but on a date to be confirmed, in June or July 2022.

Rebeka Hren-Dragolic – flute, mouth organ, whistles, voice

Luke Plumb – mandolin, guitar, irish bouzouki

Friderik Pribac – double bass, clawhammer banjo, voice

Lastovke was formed from a chance encounter of two Slovenian migrants (one old and one new) in a Bellerive carpark, with families and dogs in tow. After the initial shock of finding another person with common Slovenian heritage in Hobart they soon realized they both also had professional interests in the performance of folk and classical music respectively.

Together with mandolin virtuoso Luke Plumb, recently returned from an acclaimed career with Scottish band Shooglenifty, and in collaboration with Dyan Shaw Summers of Flinders Island they have undertaken a project that explores their migrant perspectives of folk music from both home and new country.

Lastovke presents a program that compares and contrasts folk songs from both Slovenia and Tasmania performed bilingually.

Rebeka is a recent migrant with her jeweler husband Peter and young family from Slovenia to Tasmania. She is a professional opera singer who has performed on every continent and is now establishing herself locally and performing with the TSO and other ventures and embarking on a new musical teaching career.

Fred was a child migrant as part of the post world war two diaspora from Slovenia he is a retired scientist and well known local folk musician for his involvement in the recreation and transmission of the music of the Cape Barren Islanders with Tasmanian Aboriginal Band the Island Coes.

Luke is a professional musician, musical director, and producer returned to Tasmania after many years working in Scotland, Europe and America as mandolinist and composer. Luke is the linch pin of many musical projects in South Eastern Australia and is the director of the Tasmanian World Music Orchestra.

Eclectica Salamanca is supported by the City of Hobart through its Cultural Grants Program and by the Commonwealth Government's Office of the Arts via the RISE Fund.