High Energy Folk Music to Dance to!

Sam with Sandy Brechin's accordion

Sam on the bodhran at the 2003 Illawarra Folk Festival at Jamberoo

Sam at 2002 Illawarra Folk Festival

Big Snore Hammers is 7 year old Samuel De Santi's dream band come to life. The band was originally assembled for the 18th Illawarra Folk Festival at Jamberoo in 2002 at Jamberoo when Sam was 5 years old. Since then the band has performed at Jamberoo and also performed at the 2002/2003 and 2003/2004 Woodford Folk Festivals.

The band of 10 musicians has members of Wongawilli, Obrobini and friends playing an array of acoustic instruments including violin, mandolin, guitar, accordion, piano, whistle, and saxophone with drums and African drums for high energy jigs, reels and polkas.

Sam leads the band playing bodhran and harmonica and anything else he can bang.

The music is a mixture of folk music from around the world from such bands as La Bottine Souriante (French Canadian), Chippolatas (UK), Felpeyu (from Asturies, Spain), Burach, Sandy Brechin (Scotland) and of course traditional Australian, Italian and Celtic tunes!

Previous gigs have been at:

2002 & 2003 Illawarra Folk Festival at Jamberoo (part of the Saturday night World Dance Party)

2002 / 2003 & 2003/2004 Woodford Folk Festival

 email enquiries: desanti@bigpond.com
Last revised: May 13, 2004 by David De Santi