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    Klezmer (Yiddish: קלעזמער or כּלי־זמר) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. The essential elements...
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  • The Cracow Klezmer Band was a Polish jazz quartet formed by accordionist and composer Jarosław Bester [Wikidata] in 1997 in the city of Kraków, and recorded...
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  • The Klezmer Conservatory Band is a Boston-based group which performs traditional klezmer music; it was formed by Hankus Netsky of the New England Conservatory...
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  • The Flying Bulgars (formerly the Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band) was a Toronto-based Canadian band, which played music rooted in the Jewish music of Eastern...
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  • The Klezmer Concerto is piece for solo clarinet, harp, strings and percussion by Israeli-American composer Ofer Ben-Amots. The piece was both written...
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    Wolff Kostakowsky (category Klezmer musicians)
    Kostakowsky (1879–1944) was a Russian-born klezmer violinist known mostly for his publication of a book of klezmer dance tunes titled International Hebrew...
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    ceremonies, and sing to the bride, groom and in-laws with the accompaniment of klezmer musicians. They also had a traditional role on holidays such as Hanukkah...
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  • Klezmer-loshn (קלעזמער-לשון klezmer-loshn, Yiddish for Musician's Tongue) is an extinct derivative of the Yiddish language. It was a kind of argot, or...
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  • Barcelona, Spain. The band draws on many musical influences, including Klezmer music, Jazz Manouche, and Romani music. BGKO also explores the sounds of...
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    Amsterdam Klezmer Band, sometimes referred to as AKB, is a Dutch-Jewish musical group created in 1996 in Amsterdam. The band plays Yiddish and Klezmer music...
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  • Klezmer is a 2015 Polish war-drama film written and directed by Piotr Chrzan. It was screened in the Venice Days section at the 72nd edition of the Venice...
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  • code Sorani, Central Kurdish branch language, ISO 639-3 code The Cracow Klezmer Band, a Polish band Crazy Ken Band, a Japanese band CKB (gene), a gene...
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  • Klezmer (Yiddish: כלזמיר, from Hebrew: k'li zemer כלי זמר, lit. "vessels of song", meaning "musical instruments" in Hebrew; in Yiddish, "klezmer" refers...
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    had to play because of Klezmer's popularity there. Over time, Klezmer's audience expanded in Germany and the American Klezmer bands were able to adjust...
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    Retrieved 9 April 2019. Ilana Cravitz (January 2004) Klezmer – Modes and Scales", ManchesterKlezmer.org at archive.org (Accessed 23 November 2014). Hewitt...
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  • Musicians who play klezmer, a style of music originating with the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe The Klezmorim, a klezmer band This disambiguation...
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    primarily spent performing classical music, and has since expanded into jazz, klezmer, and other music genres. Kennedy's grandfather was Lauri Kennedy, principal...
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  • Kolsimcha – The World Quintet (category Klezmer groups)
    Kolsimcha – The World Quintet is a Swiss klezmer band. The band was founded in 1986 under the name Kol Simcha in Switzerland as a duo with Josef Bollag...
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  • Orthodox singer-songwriter and rock guitarist. Described his music as "klezmer with electric guitar". Craig Taubman Conservative singer-songwriter, best...
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    Airat Ichmouratov (category Klezmer musicians)
    composer, conductor and klezmer clarinetist. He is a founding member and clarinetist of award-winning Montreal-based klezmer group Kleztory and invited...
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    instrument. Additionally, the accordion is used in cajun, zydeco, jazz, and klezmer music, and in both solo and orchestral performances of classical music...
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  • Henry Sapoznik (category Klezmer musicians)
    in Broadcast Journalism for 2002. A pioneering scholar and performer of klezmer music, Sapoznik was the first director of the Max and Frieda Weinstein...
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  • of Aquitaine Adelaide of Aquitaine, wife of Hugh Capet. Commire, Anne; Klezmer, Deborah, eds. (2000). "Gerloc (d. 963)". Women in world history: a biographical...
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    Naftule Brandwein (category Klezmer musicians)
    (Yiddish: נפתלי בראַנדװײַן, 1884–1963) was an Austrian-born Jewish American Klezmer musician, clarinetist, bandleader and recording artist active from the...
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    developed a passion for the traditional musics of Eastern Europe, especially klezmer and gypsy styles, and travelled widely in the region, absorbing new sounds...
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    Joseph Moskowitz (category Klezmer musicians)
    during the first half of the twentieth century. A descendant of a family of klezmer musicians, he was among the most well-known American cimbalom players of...
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  • Possessed is an album by the American klezmer group the Klezmatics, released in 1997. The album was produced by Robert Musso. "Moroccan Game" is an instrumental...
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    ska, jazz, folk and most notably Eastern European influences such as klezmer and gypsy music, which has led to their inclusion in the gypsy punk genre...
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  • This is a list of klezmer musicians: Michael Alpert József Balogh Gérard Barreaux Shloimke (Sam) Beckerman Sidney Beckerman Ofer Ben-Amots Alan Bern Geoff...
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    revived one from Brittany Hungarian folk music traditions Italian fiddling Klezmer fiddling Polish fiddling Mainland Portuguese and Azorean fiddling Romanian...
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