Adam Heilbrun

From USA and played Clarinet, Sax, Flute, Shehnai, Baglama, Macedonian Gaida, Kaval and many other ethnic instruments from around the world. He was a musician in the Macedonian Early Music Band that played for the Zivko Firfov folk dance group London, performing dances music and dances from Yugoslavia. 1975-78. He traveled to Macedonia with fellow band member Linsey Pollak and they learned Gaida and Kaval from Lazo Nikolovski in Drachevo near Skopje everyday for three months 1977-78 living in the granny flat at the bottom of his garden. Returned to London to play with the Zivko Firfov dance group. Five months later they went altogether to Yugoslavia-North Macedonia to perform at the four day ethnic dance festival 'Ilindenski Denovi' in Bitola July 1978, which was televised by Radio-Televizija Skopje. Adam produced a music cassette of his trip at the festival. Later that year the band before disbanding recorded the hit album '17 Macedonian Folk Dances' GB1978, Goat Bag Records, which was No 8 in the Melody Maker Folk Album Charts 21 January 1981. The band played all traditional instruments and their album was the first record of Macedonian folk music to reach a chart position in the West. Adam returned to the USA and as a versatile musician was competent in the following genres: avant-garde, blues, ethnic, world, classical, Jazz, alternative. Adam also appeared on the compilation ' From The Pages Of Experimental Musical Instruments Volume IV'.