A veteran of dance for over 20 years, Sandy Silva currently performs with Quebec megastars La Bottine Souriante, The Red Rabbit Project and Zebratones with Charmaine Leblanc.

Through improvisation, body percussion and original choreography, Sandy draws from the drum and dance traditions of Celtic step dance, Spanish Flamenco, American tap, Hungarian legenyes, Appalachian buck dance and modern dance. The result is rich and riveting, full of rhythmic and visual inventiveness.

She has performed internationally at festivals including the Montreal International Jazz Festival as a special guest with Bobby McFerrin; WOMAD Festival in Australia; Midsummer Night Swing, Lincoln Center, New York; Celtic Connections, Glasgow, Scotland; Galway Arts Festival, Ireland; WOMEX, Brussels; and NPR's 'A Prairie Home Companion.'

She has worked with the Human Rhythm Project, as well as with a wide variety of acclaimed musicians such as Rick Haworth (guitarist for Lhasa), jazz saxophonist Remi Bolduc and new music composer Guy Klucevsek. Sandy has also appeared with the Irish band, Altan, fiddlers Kevin Burke, Martin Hayes, Laura Risk and Bruce Molsky.