Legacy – The Bunkowsky Family Band

Legacy is a unique 13 piece family band that provides top quality music for shows and dances in the Southern Manitoba area. We play a wide variety of musical styles that include jazz, rock & roll, polkas, waltzes, country, and latin. This band was amalgamated from two other bands in January of 2005 and is comprised of three generations of the Bunkowsky family clan.   

Some History

The beginnings of music in the family began with the three brothers, Bob, Brian and Douglas Bunkowsky who played for many years in the popular dance band “Southern Comfort”, along with Ralph Jenkins, Ronnie Karlowsky and Dennis Carlson.

When this group disbanded, Bob and Heather had a young family of five girls and one son. Bob taught these children how to sing and play and together with Heather began the long journey of the “Family Spectrum”. This began as an amateur band and eventually evolved into a professional group that recorded three albums and played shows continuously for 25 years all over Western Canada, Northern US and even ventured into Germany for a concert tour.

Some of the “kids” of Family Spectrum grew up and had some kids. In early 2005 a family meeting was called to discuss the next phase of musical evolvement with all interested members of the Bunkowsky clan, both young and old. It came to pass that we have collectively formed a new group called “Legacy”. The name denotes the passing of musical experience and styles from one generation to the next and our plan to continue this legacy of music, fun and family connection to future generations of Bunkowsky's. Our band members currently range from in age from 65 to 8 years of age.

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