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Wedding hora - with, for, and in the crowd!
Simon tov u mazol tov!
We love performing for weddings and other life events. This video captures the exuberance of the couple after tying the knot and breaking the glass. We paraded through the neighborhood to the delight of pedestrians and the congratulatory honking of drivers passing by.
Read the New York Times writeup of this wedding here.
Read the New York Times writeup of this wedding here.
Klezmer hip hop with an expanded cast!
Big band!
An ecstatic musical wedding moment parading the tisches with “Od Yishama” to the bedeken.
Party music and the always fun dance leading of Bruce Bierman!
Playing for outdoor distanced dancing during the pandemic!
We love playing for dancing, whether it's a high energy hora set or a good ol' hoe down!
Beregoski 136 We arranged and filmed this old klezmer melody for inclusion in a Holocaust memorial event in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The film later screened at the New York as well as the Ann Arbor Jewish Film Festivals of 2022.
We are grateful to filmmaker Yoav Potash for his poignant and evocative juxtaposition of this world and our music with pre-World War II film footage of Eastern European Jewish life and worlds tragically lost. These melodies that survive are connective, and can bridge generational feeling, memory, and culture. We hope this piece moves you.
We are grateful to filmmaker Yoav Potash for his poignant and evocative juxtaposition of this world and our music with pre-World War II film footage of Eastern European Jewish life and worlds tragically lost. These melodies that survive are connective, and can bridge generational feeling, memory, and culture. We hope this piece moves you.
Jamming on an old klezmer tune at a KlezCalifornia festival. In addition to bringing the music and good times, we often bring great facial hair fashion!
Rehearsing an Erik Satie composition as a klezmer terkisher.