Musical ensembles

  
         
     
         
   
Avishai Cohen, brilliant bassist, composer and band leader, has been called "Jazz visionary of global proportions" by Downbeat Magazine and was declared one of the '100 Most Influential Bass Players of the 20th Century' by Bass Player Magazine.
  
         
   
Pharaoh's Daughter - Lead by Basya Schechter, the band has been playing their unique brand of cutting edge contemporary singer/songwriter material mixed with Klezmer, Middle Eastern, Indian and Balkan influences.
         
    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 Strauss/Warschauer Duo draws from Klezmer, Yiddish, Hasidic and liturgical traditions. Violin, guitar, mandolin and accordion combinations create a dynamic atmosphere and exceptional range of feeling - from delicately refined to foot-stomping exhuberance.
       
   

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.

  
 
   
   
Howard Leshaw and The Golden Land Orchestra - Top-notch New York City jazz players achieve a unique blend of imagination, ethnic integrity and straight-forward virtuosity that regularly leaves audiences breathlessly begging for more. Klezmer and much more!
       
   
Nikitov - Yiddish songs meet Gypsy Jazz. Led by charismatic Yiddish song maven Niki Jacobs, this brilliant acoustic quartet has riveted audiences in Europe and the US with its originality and driving Eastern European rhythm. A rising star on the World Music scene.
  
       
   
Greek born musical arranger, lead guitarist, and bouzouki virtuoso Avram Pengas is a versatile performer who plays popular Israeli hits, exotic Arabic melodies, pulsating Persian and Turkish rhythms, Armenian dances and traditional Yiddish songs. Avram Pengas' Noga Group has been a staple of New York's downtown music scene for nearly twenty years.
  
         
   
Soulfarm's textured wall of sound is nothing if not unique, and offers those rarest of qualities in contemporary music: multigenerational and cross-cultural appeal. A heaping helping of international flavors, many of them Middle Eastern in origin.
 
       
   

Klezmer Mountain Boys - Virtuoso clarinetist Margot Leverett joins forces with today's stars of klezmer and bluegrass to explore the shared musical spirit of two genres literally worlds apart. Appalachian and southern fiddle tunes meet klezmer melodies from pre-war Russia and Eastern Europe. The resulting medleys and improvisations are at once raw, funny, melancholic and footstomping.

 
       
   
The Afro-Semitic Experience is a band of African-American and Jewish-American musicians dedicated to preserving, promoting and expanding the rich cultural heritage of the Jewish and African Diasporas. With interpretations from the rich traditions of our two cultures: Gospel, Klezmer, Nigunim, Spirituals, Bebop and Swing, they also frame the music, telling stories about what the pieces mean, how they relate to us as individual members of the community, and how they reflect upon the relations between Blacks and Jews.
 
       
   
A soul-stirring musical journey, The Spirit of Sepharad: From Casbah to Caliphate traces the unique migration of Sepharadic music from medieval Spain, across North Africa, to the Middle East. Combining music, dance and illuminating projections, this dynamic mixed-media performance brings to life all the rich cultural strains that influenced Sepharadic/Mizrahi Jews.
  
         
 
 

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.

 
         
   
Soul to Soul: Yiddish and African-American Music Meet in a Celebration of Two Cultures. The concert is headlined by Elmore James, a veteran of five Broadway productions and numerous opera stages around the world, Tony Perry, a commanding young singer-actor, and Magda Fishman, Israeli singing sensation. Musical Direction by Zalmen Mlotek
  
         
    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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