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List of Klezmer bands. Klezmer ( Yiddish: כלזמיר, from Hebrew: k'li zemer כלי זמר, lit. "vessels of song", meaning "musical instruments" in Hebrew; in Yiddish, "klezmer" refers to a professional Jewish instrumentalist) is a genre and type of music originating in Eastern Europe. [1] It was originally played by Jews, but now, since a ...
List of klezmer musicians. This is a list of klezmer musicians : Michael Alpert [1] József Balogh. Gérard Barreaux. Shloimke (Sam) Beckerman. Sidney Beckerman. Ofer Ben-Amots. Alan Bern. Geoff Berner. Naftule Brandwein. Stuart Brotman. Don Byron. Brian Choper. Adrienne Cooper. Christian Dawid. Abe Elenkrieg. Giora Feidman. German Goldenshteyn.
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Labels. Arhoolie, Flying Fish, Le Chant du Monde, MW. Website. klezmo .com. The Klezmorim, founded in Berkeley, California, in 1975, was the world's first klezmer revival band, widely credited with spearheading the global renaissance of klezmer (Eastern European Yiddish instrumental music) in the 1970s and 1980s.
Part of the Ashkenazi Jewish tradition, klezmer is the music that was played at Jewish weddings and other communal ceremonies in the Old World of Eastern Europe leading up to the Second World War.
Read more about the band on Wikipedia: here; or browse the categories below to find what you're looking for: History. In 1983, Lori Lippitz founded the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band, named for Chicago's old Sunday morning Jewish marketplace. Bios.
Klezmer as we now know it was originally just referred to as Jewish music and was played by Jewish musicians in Eastern Europe for several hundred years prior to the Second World War. After the...
Itzhak Perlman. People's Bizarre. The Klezmorim. Muzsikás. Andy Statman. Socalled. Tummel. Beyond the Pale. Rob Burger. Find Famous Klezmer Artists and Musicians on AllMusic.
