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Kalyna and Dan, from Toronto Canada, started playing music together in 2020, just as Covid closed music venues. They?ve come from the hardest of starts and headed west, landing a performance opportunity outside of a pizza truck for the summer on Hornby Island - Canada?s remote west coast. Since then, they've toured over 100,000 kms on land alone - across Canada, the UK, Europe, America, Australia, New Zealand and are headed back to the UK this spring 2023. They've recently released an album called 'Welcome to the Show? - available on all online platforms. They are committed to their music and that commitment shines through when you hear it.

Kalyna plays guitar, harmonica and drums as well providing vocals that fuse the power and unique qualities of Janis Joplin and Lena Lovich. She commands your attention and sings from the heart until it bleeds with gut-curdling emotion. Accompanied by guitar maestro Dan Gurman, who sits coolly impervious at the eye of the storm, Kalyna?s music rampages round the crowd like a tornado at a vicar?s tea party. It sweeps all before it, grabs your attention and doesn?t let go.

Together they balance and produce a bulldozer of sound.

?The dozen originals on Before & After You announce a new roots-rock voice has arrived. Whether she is tearing up the highway on Yellow-Blue or crooning like a mix of Amy Winehouse and Rickie Lee Jones on My First Love Song, Rakel sounds completely in control of her voice and message.? - VANCOUVER SUN

?Her velvet voice and soulful melodies are as pleasing as it gets, and her lyrics are both intimate and inspirational.? - KEEP WALKING MUSIC, MADRID

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1 New Street,

Aberystwyth,

Ceredigion,

Wales,

SY23 2AT.