The Dartz

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Country	Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Years active	1997 - present
Genres	Folk / Rock
Labels	Boglach Records
Members	Dmitry Kourtsman, Anton Gorelikov, Sergey Chibiryov, Igor Starostin, Alexander Popov, Roman Slivinskiy, Igor Burmistrov, Andrey Khokhlov

The Dartz is a pop-folk (as they name themselves) band from Saint Petersburg, Russia. The band called their genre "pop-folk", meaning "popular, merry, modern, understandable, appealing, positive". The musicians are inspired by songs and dances of Europe: Irish, Scottish, Breton, Balkan, Spanish, Jewish, Scandinavian, and Russian melodies. The band is extraordinary free with folk music, and almost always composes its own Russian texts, putting them onto traditional melodies, or sometimes translates the songs into Russian. That's why The Dartz consider themselves a folk band as well as authors. This principal line still exists since their first album. These days the folk lore is understood in a deeper sense, it went deeper, and diffused in arrangements, and even in blues compositions something celtic appears sometimes, and rock'n'roll motiffs can be met in jigs, for instance — a guitar solo. In authentic celtic music guitar never plays solo and isn't even recognized as an instrument.

1 Members
2 Former members
3 Temporary live members
4 Discography
5 External links

[edit] Members

Dmitry "Dee" Kourtsman — mandoline, banjo, guitar, vocals
Anton "Deodan" Gorelikov — percussion - bodhrán, darbouka, bongo drums
Sergey "Ondion" Chibiryov — bass, vocals
Igor "Pan" Starostin — lead guitar, vocals
Alexander Popov — drums
Roman "Punnen" Slivinskiy — accordion, keyboards
Igor "Garegin" Burmistrov (of Mervent) — violin
Andrey "Beholder" Khokhlov — audio engineering

[edit] Former members

Vladimir "Hermano" Khotin — tinwhistle, bagpipe, flute, vocals
Anna "Anfisa" Khotina — violin, accordion, charango, vocals
Artem Shalyt — bodhrán

[edit] Temporary live members

Natalia "Hellawes" O'Shea (of Melnitsa) — vocals
Konstantin "Troll" Rumyantsev (of Troll Gnet Yel) — vocals
Yelena "Mirish" Khanpira (of Tol Miriam) — vocals
Dmitry Ivanov (of Racoons) — drums

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

Переверни Страницу (February 2004 - January 2005) (Boglach Records)	Франсуазиг (July 2002 - January 2003) (Boglach Records)	Ярмарка (May-July 2000) (Dobrye Volshebniki - 2000 (MC)) (Caravan Records - 2004 (CD\MC))	Пиво И Пельмени (June 1999) (Caravan Records)
Ирландские Поминки (1997) (Caravan Records)