in 1999, she was awarded the prize for best folk artist by the abelarde sanction, a prize she shared with andries bezuidenhout.
she has also extensively sung with koos kombuis as backing vocalist and performed on two of his recent albums, madiba bay and blameer dit op apartheid. read what the critics said about those albums by clicking on the right.
at festivals in the early years, she was most often been joined on stage by three excellent and experienced, though not very punctual, musicians, about whom you can read more on valiant's site by clicking on their names below.
at the oppikoppi trek 2000 festivals in northam and worcester, liela performed on the savanna jazz stage with vernon swart and schalk joubert.
at the patrolliehond festival and a couple of gigs around it, steve savage did an excellent job of accompanying liela on the bass.
ockert greeff of the brixton moord & roof band has also joined liela on his gembi on a number of occasions at the abelarde and in the karoo.
liela still hopes to find a couple of committed and gauteng-based fellow folk punks to jam with more regularly.
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