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Dan Wall
Banjo, Violin and Lead Vocals
Dan Wall found his passion for music back in 2008 when he stumbled upon a street band in New Orleans. Riveted by the positive vibe, the social interaction, and a rootsy Americana sound, he quickly picked up the Banjo and found travel, street performance, songwriting and musical collaboration to be his new mission.
He initially divided his time between working at home in Hudson, New York as a carpenter and traveling through Europe as a street musician. He's now is based in Berlin and focuses his time on building a musical career. Together with his wife, Magdalena Kriss, he forms the award winning duo Tante Friedl.
Lotte Remmen
Violin and Vocals
Lotte Remmen was born in 1986 in Belgium. She started her musical career at the age of 8 years old and immediately chose the violin as her favorite instrument. From the age of 12 Lotte started to play with several youth orchestras (Euregio Jeugdorkest, Kempisch Jeugdorkest) and became section leader. At that age she also started to develop in other genres like folk and jazz music.
Lotte graduated as a Master of Music for violin (classical department) at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, but soon after this she decided to focus on improvisation, jazz violin and different kinds of world violin workshops with international teachers. In meanwhile she worked as a classical violin player in ‘Amos String Quartet’, ‘Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra’, ‘DeFilharmonie’ and ‘Banshee Duo’. Lotte plays as a freelance musician in many folk, world music and cross over projects. Based in Gent, today she is the violin player of Old Salt, the Brazilian band Euforró and Ghent Folk Violin Project and forms the award winning duo Bipolar Bows with cellist Toby Kuhn.
Johannes Wannyn
Guitar and Vocals
Johannes Wannyn started his musical career at the age of 16 as an autodidact by playing in the band Stro, which was later called Strograss. The band was a crossover americana - oldtime - singersongwriter project in which originals of both Johannes and his brother Joachim can be heard.
Johannes always had a passion for music in the Dutch language, called 'kleinkunst'. He has his own soloproject in which his originals are arranged into beautiful acoustic songs. Johannes regularly performs with 'Kleinkunstkollektief', in which they cover Flemish and Dutch song. Johannes is one of the three members of People in Houses and the banjo player of Bearfeet.
After Etno Histeria in 2013, he met Dan Wall, and is one of the founders and core members of Old Salt.
Toby Kuhn
Cello
French cellist Toby Kuhn is a post-classical musician with a taste for improvisation and folk music of all persuasions. Always on the lookout for new ways to play his instrument, his unorthodox approach wins admiration and acclaim from a variety of music-lovers, from the concert stage to the pub, from Japan to Slovenia via Sweden and Canada, bringing the full potential of the cello with him on his journey across style and invention.
Toby has several international bands, like the award winning duo Bipolar Bows with Old Salt violinist Lotte Remmen, a duo with the English singer, accordeonist and clog dancer Hannah James, and the Balkan inspired Wild Strings Trio.
Tomás Peralta
Double Bass, Mandolin, Squareneck, Charango
Tomás Peralta is a chilean-argentinean multi-instrumentalist. Starting at the early age of 8, his insatiable thirst of music had brought him from the harpsichord to drums, from classical conservatory training to the darkest corners of stoner rock and anything and everything in between. He fell in love with folk and bluegrass and made this path his career joining the bands Yonder Boys, St. Beaufort and Old Salt.
He’s the bassist for the latin band Los Pitutos and the former neo tropicalia band Aquafaba.
Tomás is also a record producer and analog freak, founding in 2018 the label Blue Whale Records. He produces albums for all sorts of artists in his studio in a farmhouse with 100% analog gear.