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Welcome to Dik Banovich's website. 
Here you'll find photos, biogs, soundfiles
and a complete downloadable press pack to help with any promotions.
Dik Banovich
has been on the folk & blues scene for more years than he cares to
remember. Brought up in Chicago, his rhythmic finger picking style and
warm expressive vocals reveal his early exposure to the blues, and the
influences of his Irish
- Slavic roots.
Since 2002 Dik has lived at Crampoisic and continues to perform and hold guitar workshops in Brittany.
The Biography Settling in Scotland in the 1970’s, he was known as Almost Blind Boy Banovich by his contemporaries in Glasgow. Says it all really!! The Guitar has taken him on an amazing musical journey through many styles of playing - from blues to bluegrass - from traditional celtic folk to swing and back again - but he somehow manages to combine all this musical diversity into a sound which is unique, particularly in his own original songs and instrumentals. He says he’s on a voyage of self discovery - but what we hear is the celt, the slav, and the bluesman - in other words, we hear him. Dik has toured extensively in Britain, Europe, Scandinavia, the States and West Africa. He has played clubs, folk clubs, art centres, pubs, and concerts in all imaginable ( and unimaginable! ) venues both at home and abroad. He has numerous TV and radio appearances under his belt as well as playing major festivals such as the Glasgow Folk Festival, Glasgow International Jazz Festival, Edinburgh Blues Festival, Edinburgh Folk Festival, The Edinburgh Festival, The Arran Blues Festival, The Arran Folk Festival, The Aberdeen Alternative Festival, Rootin Aboot Aberdeen, Carrbridge Folk Festival, Cambridge Folk Festival ( Club Tent with Spider Mackenzie), Dumfermline Jazz Festival, Forres Folk Festival, Ballahulish Folk Festival, Louisburg Folk Festival NC.USA, Tonder Folk Festival Denmark, Tapely Park Devon, Arlington Festival ( with Wes Bird & Tony Prince as Beatha ), Barnstaple Jazz Festival, The Polperro Arts Festival 2000 / 2001, The Wiviliscombe Music Festival (West Fest), Appeldore Arts Festival, and Malborough Festival of Music & Arts 2001, Big Wheel Blues Festival - Isle of Man 2002. In Brittany : Art Trad Festival - Mûr de Bretagne 2006, Lorient Festival 2005 / 2006 / 2007, Blues au Chateau - La Cheze 2007, as well as numerous concerts throughout the country.
Dik has also performed with Claire Anstee, Ronnie Gerrard, Jim Condie, Mark (Tiny) Hamilton, Bill Alexander, Fraser Spiers and the great jazz drummer Alex Ross, to name only a few. He also was a member of The Willow String Band which featured the late Ray Stewart on banjo, Bernie Stocks on fiddle with Ian McIver on double bass and the band made numerous radio & tv appearances in their own right.
As well as playing solo, he performed with harmonica player Bill Williamson and is sometimes joined by Pete Lowe on sax, clarinet and flute. In a more celtic line up, he also performed with fiddle player Liz Tedbury and John Gates on bodhran. He also performed regularly with fingerpicking guitar player Jerry Cahill. Since moving to Brittany, he continues to perform solo and with harmonica player Thierry Perron throughout Brittany as Doctor Blues
Recordings
Tuition Dik also teaches both on a one to one basis and in workshop situations from his home at Crampoisic in Central Brittany. For CD sales, bookings and more information on tour dates, performances and workshops you can contact Dik through Catz Cradle Productions.
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Dik
has shared stages with Peter Green’s Splinter Group, Paul Lamb and
the Kingsnakes, Tam White, Run Rig, Dick Gaughan, Mojo Pep, The Men They
Couldn’t Hang as well as Hot Chocolate and Chaz & Dave!! .....
and the list goes on! For many years Dik performed with harmonica player
Spider Mckenzie, described by Blueprint Magazine as “ Scotland’s
greatest undiscovered natural talent”. Together the press called
them “Scotland’s most popular blues duo”. - Press and Journal