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That’s the message we want to convey as a band. We really take that to heart.” The concert is a rain or shine event and will be held outdoors on the patio if the weather is good, or in Juno’s indoor ...

Listen To Abraham Inc.’s “Tweet Tweet”: Here are a few lyrics from “Tweet Tweet,” the title track from Abraham Inc.’s recently released debut album: “We bring the nigguns from the street/Get off your ...

This snappy little set combines some funky klezmer jazz with an intelligent electronic/hip-hop perspective. Does that sentence get your blood racing? It should, because there are a hell of a lot of ...

Jazz Fest first Saturday RNew Orleans Klezners Allstars performs on the Lagniappe Stage New Orleans Klezners All Stars perform on the Lagniappe Stage during the first Saturday of the New Orleans Jazz ...

This song is based on the traditional klezmer tune “Bulgar from Kiev” and is our first successful fusion of funk and klezmer. A bulgar is the most common dance tune in the klezmer genre, it is also ...

Atlanta’s 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra plays a wild, globe-spanning mix of genres that combines Klezmer music with West African styles, along with seasoning from other areas like funk, rock, and ...

It’s been dubbed Kleztronica. Essentially electronic dance music with klezmer elements, the year-old genre is made to a large degree with samplers and synthesizers, though old-school instruments that ...

The re-acquaintance of klezmer, Eastern European Jewish modes and rhythms, with American jazz is currently at its height. Initially, Jewish immigrant musicians arriving during the late 1800s and early ...

NEW YORK (AFP) — When Balkan Beat Box set out to record its latest album, the genre-defying Israeli band went into a studio and jammed just to see what it would come up with. “It was almost like ...

ASHKENAZ FESTIVAL at Harbourfront Centre (235 Queens Quay West) August 28 to September 1, featuring ABRAHAM INC. on the main stage, tonight (Thursday, August 28), 8 pm. $25. And ANDY STATMAN at the ...

Clarinetist David Krakauer is known as both a classical virtuoso and a hard-rocking player of klezmer, the instrumental music of East European Jewry. Several years ago, he connected with DJ Socalled, ...