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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.
Musicians in the Klezmer genre. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Klezmer musicians.
Shelley Yoelin (tenor saxophone, clarinet and flute) is one of the original founding members of the band. Formerly Chair of the Fine Arts Department and Director of Bands at Triton College in River Grove, Illinois, Shelley has been playing with Maxwell Street since 1983.
Klezmer groups. Klezmer is a musical tradition of the Ashkenazic Jews of Eastern Europe. Played by professional musicians called klezmorim, the genre consists largely of dance tunes and instrumental display pieces for weddings and other celebrations.
In 1983, Lori Lippitz founded the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band, named for Chicago's old Sunday morning Jewish marketplace. In the years since, Maxwell Street has become the Midwest's most popular klezmer band, touring seven times in Europe and performing throughout the U.S., including Carnegie Hall. Audiences of all backgrounds have been ...
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.
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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.
