The Klezmatics at Kuumbwa Jazz Center

The Klezmatics have brought a refreshed aesthetic to klezmer music – the music of Eastern European Yiddish culture. They were klezmer when klezmer wasn’t cool, and over the years they’ve raised the bar for Eastern European Jewish music, making a series of beautiful, political, inspirational recordings and helping to change the face of contemporary Yiddish culture. Their Wonder Wheel recording, featuring Woody Guthrie lyrics reconfigured on melodies drawn from Celtic, Eastern European, Afro-Caribbean, and American popular music, received a 2007 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album...

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The Klezmatics have brought a refreshed aesthetic to klezmer music – the music of Eastern European Yiddish culture. They were klezmer when klezmer wasn’t cool, and over the years they’ve raised the bar for Eastern European Jewish music, making a series of beautiful, political, inspirational recordings and helping to change the face of contemporary Yiddish culture. Their Wonder Wheel recording, featuring Woody Guthrie lyrics reconfigured on melodies drawn from Celtic, Eastern European, Afro-Caribbean, and American popular music, received a 2007 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album. For an evening of living, breathing, heart-pounding klezmer, you owe it to yourself to catch this unique musical hybrid.

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