Lvov is the Russian name for the Ukrainian city of Lviv, lying near the border of Poland it was called Lwow under Polish rule and before that Lemburg under the Austrian empire. Naturally a cosmopolitan city the music of nearby Moldova, Hungary and Romania as well as Gypsy and Klezmer melodies permeate the culture past and present.

It was where Basil Bunelik started his musical training in 1960, largely based on folk music of the Soviet Union.

Later, in London he joined the Balalaika Dance Group, playing accordion for them and also Mazeppa Cossacks. He then moved to Devon to work for Dartington Music College and formed Troika, which performed East European music throughout the UK and abroad for about ten years.

In 2001 he was awarded a grant from the Jewish Music Institute to run a series of klezmer workshops and concerts in Devon, and more recently, in 2015 he was invited to perform and give klezmer workshops in Malta.

Violinist Lisa Rowe has been playing Klezmer and Eastern European music for the past 20 years. Her interest in this rich folk tradition began when she lived in Greece, where she first encountered the intoxicating beauty of Balkan dance music and song. On returning to England, she pursued this further by studying the Klezmer repertoire and attending the annual Klezfests in London, learning techniques and ornamentation from great teachers such as Deborah Strauss and Alan Bern.

More recently, she has immersed herself in Hungarian gypsy music, especially the music and songs originating from the villages of the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe. She has performed on violin, accordion and vocals in various bands, including Devon based 'Hazaar', as well as with Basil for the last decade.