THE KLEZMATICS – 40 YEARS TOUR
For four decades, The Klezmatics have electrified Klezmer music. Their songs jump between Yiddish tradition, jazz, gospel, punk, classical, Latin, and Balkan sounds. They dance, protest, celebrate, and contradict. What began as a New York sound from the East Village has long since become its own musical world: ecstatic, virtuosic, full of wit and resilience. To conclude the Jewish Week in Dresden, the Grammy-winning band brings their anniversary program to the stage of the Societaetstheater – featuring familiar songs, new pieces, and the energy of a band that has never understood Klezmer as a museum, but as present-day art.
For their 40th anniversary, The Klezmatics are going on a world tour and once again expanding their repertoire: Jewish, Black gospel, Latin American, avant-garde jazz, and other voices come together in songs about protest, hope, and solidarity. The band has collaborated with artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Chava Alberstein, Joshua Nelson, Arlo Guthrie, and Allen Ginsberg, performed in major concert halls and festivals worldwide, and won the Grammy for "Wonder Wheel" (Lyrics by Woody Guthrie) in 2007. Each show is an invitation to experience Jewish music as a vibrant, radical, and profoundly human art form.
Lorin Sklamberg (vocals, piano, accordion), Frank London (trumpet, keyboard), Lisa Gutkin (violin), Matt Darriau (clarinet, saxophone, kaval), Richie Barshay (drums, percussion), Paul Morrissett (bass, zymbals)
Duration: approx. 90 minutes
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