Musical ensembles


 
         
     
         
     
         
   
         
    Golem is where Eastern Europe meets the Lower East Side. Golem’s sound evokes wisps of old-world elegance filtered through the successes and disappointments of new-world dreams. These are the songs to which Eastern European grandparents danced over a century ago, and now Golem has its unwrinkled fans moshing to the same pulsing beats. "Golem produces the sort of music you'd expect if the shtetl were filled with punks instead of peasants" - The Washington Post  
         
   

HaBanot Nechama are a live band in the deepest sense, having built themselves a huge and very dedicated following before releasing even one single. Reggae influences, soul-folk melodies, one of a kind harmonies and impeccable song-craft are highlights of this perfect showcase of how English and Hebrew can co-exist.

         
    Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird: Radical Yiddish Punkfolk Cabaret. Detroit-born, Berlin-based singer/songwriter, polyglot poet, translator, activist Daniel Kahn concocts furious, tender, electrifying and revolutionary Alienation Klezmer. "Accordion charged with punkrock... the free-spirited attitude of the New York Tzadik circle, cabaret flair, and scraps of Tom Waits." - Rolling Stone [Germany].  
         
   

Israeli flutist and composer Hadar Noiberg is a major force in the Cuban, Jazz and World music scenes, with a language that transcends her Middle Eastern roots she fuses styles seamlessly, making her voice highly distinctive and innovative. Hadar has been busy performing and touring in such venues and festivals as The Blue Note, Womex, Dizzy's at Lincoln Center, Babel Med Festival, Summer Stage, Iridium, Jazz Standard, Sweet Rhythm, Smalls Jazz Club, Merkin Hall, 55 Bar, Creole Blues Festival, Michigan Womyn’s Festival, Midsummer Night Swing Festival, Roskilde Festival, Nessiah Festival, and many more.

 
         
   

Meg Okura, composer, erhu player and premier jazz violinist, leads a group of virtuosi, Pan Asian Jazz Ensemble, inventing and defining "world chamber jazz" today. Her credits include over fifty appearances on albums, movie soundtracks, television and music videos, and performing with musical icons such as David Bowie, Mary J. Blige, Michael Brecker, Phillip Glass, Ziggy Marley, Lee Konitz, Lenny Kravitz, Steve Swallow, Kanye West and others.

         
    Ofer Assaf is a jazz saxophonist and composer, and has performed with a wide range of artists including Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock in Carnegie Hall as part of the JVC jazz festival. He toured Europe with a modern jazz quintet, Kamafra, and subsequently released a live album, "Kamafra Live." Ofer has recently released his own debut album, “Tangible Reality”, on summit Records, featuring trumpeter Jim Rotondi, bassists Don Pate and Essiet Essiet, and drummer Bruce Cox.  
         
    Omer Avital Quintet - Hailed by Downbeat as “one of the leading composers of his generation“ and “a pioneer in combining jazz with myriad world music elements" (LA Times), acclaimed jazz bassist and composer/arranger Omer Avital has loaned his highly spirited and soulful sound to the jazz, classical and world music scenes for well over two decades.  
       
   
       
   

The Gerard Edery Ensemble explores several of the world's musical traditions. Commanding songs in some dozen languages, these gifted musicians bring an ancient repertoire to the contemporary stage.

 
 
   
   
       
     
       
     
         
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
         
 
 

Shabate is a fascinating edgy fusion of Ethiopian jazz-afro rhythm grooves with traditional Jewish soul. This powerful creation by saxophone virtouso and vocalist Abate Berihun alongside with music director Alon Yoffe and the Shabate band members, is one of the most fabulous statements in Israel's contemporary music scene.

 
         
     
         
    Litvakus brings to life often overlooked Belarusian and Litvak (Belarusian-Lithuanian) Jewish musical heritage - through the prism of their research of North-Eastern Europe’s music and the wide variety of their own cultural backgrounds. Backed by generations of klezmorim and muzyki, Litvakus are extending the bridge to the modern audiences worldwide, making the old sound new and fresh, hip and meaningful, for the sake of the future of the millennial legacy.  
         
    Yom & The Wonder Rabbis - The champion of the Klezmer clarinet is back again. Discovered three years ago at the time of his first album “New King of Klezmer Clarinet”, a homage to Naftule Brandwein, and after that, by the outstanding “Unue”, a series of inspired duets, Yom returns accompanied by his new band, the “Wonder Rabbis”: more jazz, more funk, more fusion, and more crazy than ever. On “With Love” Yom takes us to the world of Comics, to the borders of trip hop and the Balkans, of post rock and Turkey, of electronics and Romania; rest in peace, Super Yom and his clarinet are on the watch and will fight to save Love.  
   
 
 

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