The Kalishnikovs is  a small big band that can bring vintage dance music in any setting, from a small pub to an outdoor jazz event to a dance palace!

Nobody really knows what happened, but this is a good story....

...it all began years ago... Vaslav Kalishnikov was born and raised in a circus-family, in that day and age a very hard life. He was a trumpet player in the circus band, but he was recruted for the Russian army during the first world war. He was called to the front to fight the germans where he was caught as a prisoner of war and put in camp Lodz, Poland. He escaped to Holland with help by the Russian embassy in the Hague, where he was given 40cts a a day to survive.  He fell in love with the tea lady, Marieke Toot and together they went to live in Eindhoven where he worked in the gas factory. They married and were blessed with 8 children. In the evenings father Kalishnikov would teach his children music. They all seamed to have inherited their fathers talent. It was in their blood... These children grew up and started their own families, and now, almost 100 years after, his grand-grand-children keep the family tradition alive...