Matt Darriau (kaval, clarinet, saxophone); Lisa Gutkin (violin, vocals); Frank London (trumpet, keyboards); Paul Morrissett (bass, tsimbl); Lorin Sklamberg (lead vocals, accordion, guitar, piano)
"Wonder Wheel" is the 2007 Grammy Winner for Best Contemporary World Music Album!
"The Klezmatics are wonderful ... "Gonna get Through This World" is a piece of genius." Pete Seeger
"My dad would love this!" Nora Guthrie
"“Gonna Get Through This World.” [...] the very definition of world music." - Washington City Paper
"The Klezmatics prove themselves to be sensitive interpreters of any artistic language they chooseä a welcome diversion." - Billboard
"A" Robert Christgau, The Village Voice/NPR
"A complete joy! Guthrie's lyrics are transformed from dust-gathers to living, breathing, vital pieces of music!" - All Music Guide
"Skips merrily out of the speakers and becomes the life of the party." - The Chicago Sun Times
"The music is as lively as the words." - The Star Ledger, New Jersey
The Klezmatics are groundbreaking klezmer superstars who erupted from New York’s East Village in 1986 and revitalized klezmer for the new century. Their klezmer is steeped in East European Jewish tradition and spiritualism while incorporating themes such as human rights and anti-fundamentalism with eclectic influences: jazz, punk, gospel and Arabic, African, American and Balkan music. They’ve released eight albums of wild, reflective and ecstatically danceable music, redefining and transcending traditional labels.
Their most recent albums "Wonder Wheel" and "Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah" (JMG) are a vibrant collaboration of the Klezmatics’ original music composed and recorded to newly discovered lyrics of American folk icon Woody Guthrie.
Nashville Washboard Band: Going Away to Make It Clare Fader: the Wine Kronos Quartet: Black Angels Blue Boys: Easy Winner Ishman Bracey: Brown Mama Blues Voltaire: Graveyard Picnic Violent Femmes: In Style Painted Saints: the Bricks Might Breathe Again Klexmatics: Bukoviner Freylekhs Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys: "A Bad End" Boomtown Rats: I Don't Like Mondays Arthur McClain & Joe Evans: Old Hen Cackle Decemberists: Shankhill Butchers Geraldine Fibbers: Marmalade Gil Scot-Heron: "B" Movie Beirut: Afrer the Curtain Dallas String Band: Dallas Rag Johnson Boys: Prater Blues Voodoo Organist: 151 Proof Bad Things: The Unsinkable SS Merde Abandoned Toys: Where Red Shadows Slumber Tallboys: Rubber Dolly Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers: Flop-Eared Mule Calexico w/ Iron & Wine: He Lays in Reins Corey Harris: Keep Your Lamp Trimmed & Burning Tom Waits: Underground Stolen Sweets: Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day Senor Coconut: El Rey Las Galletas Wiseblood: Pedal to the Metal
Dear Klezmatics, STriCat has been nominated for the people's choice award 2007 from the Dutch world music magazine Beyond. If you like our music, support STriCat and vote here! Thank you for your vote! STriCat
