Petit Musicians

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YOUR MUSICIANS

MAYKA EDJOLE
María del Carmen Edjo Leorza is a singer, composer and DJ. She began her musical career in the group Abadìe 500 Blues Band in 1991. After studying Philology and Teaching, she decided to dedicate herself professionally to music in 1997. Mayka has been part or numerous bands and choirs, as well as performing as backing vocalist for artists such as Sergio Dalma, La Cabra Mecànica, Coque Malla, Enrique Morente, Burning, Julian Maeso and Pitingo. From 2005 to 2015 she was the voice of the soul-funk band The Sweet Vandals with whom she has composed and performed four albums and toured around the world.

She has participated in great national and international Jazz Festivals, including Pori Jazz Festival (Finland), Sakifo Festival(Reunion), Ollin Kan (Mexico), Blue Note(France), WOMAD (UK and Spain). Mayka is also a singing teacher at ESMUVA (Vallecas School of Music), directs the Vallecas Modern Choir workshop and since 2017 she has directed the Gloria Fuertes Equality Space Choir workshop in the Vicàlvaro neighbourhood.

DANDANN TRIO
The DanDann Trio was created to perform for dancers. It is composed of DanDann (USA) - Voice and Guitar, Tonete Perto (Spain) - Upright Bass, and Andrea De Martino (Italy) - Violin and Harmonica.
Based in Valencia and with a unique soulful voice you can often find DanDann wandering the streets playing and singing whenever she can. Tonete and Andrea create the perfect match to create magical performances of blues, jazz and soul standards by Etta James, B.B. King, Ray Charles, Otis Redding and more.

Photo credit: Luka Godec

STEFANO "SLIDIN WOLF" RONCHI
Stefano's way of composing and arranging songs is grounded in old black folklore music from the 20’s and 30’s, from Delta Blues and Piedmont Blues, through old Spirituals, stomp and “swamp” sounds. Passionate about slide guitar, he is touring around the world, playing in blues clubs, festivals, and blues dance events as solo artist or collaborating with other great musicians, as Dan Nash, Marcos Coll, Micha Maass, and The Ragtime Millionaires. Stefano has become an integral part of the Petit ESBF team, we can't wait to have him back where he belongs! Find out more on his website.