Zolty Cracker

 Canadian band, Zolty Cracker, had it’s start in the late eighties. The group formed not long after singer/guitarist Gilles Zolty and multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Michael Venart moved out to Vancouver from Montreal, where the two had played together in the band, Johnny Got His Gun. In Vancouver, they met up with drummer/vocalist Wayne Adams and soon began writing and recording. During this time they performed around town and Gilles and Michael along with bassist, Jahtinder Sandhu, toured their music down the west coast of the US. Back in Vancouver, while they finished the recordings that would become their first release, bassist/vocalist/accordionist, Annie Wilkinson joined the band adding her distinctive style. Gilles, Annie and Wayne would continue on through the nineties playing live and recording, producing two more albums and touring across Canada, the US and Europe. They went their separate ways in 1997 (never officially breaking up). In early 2020 as the covid 19 pandemic ...