Vivi Lachs - Voice, Calling
Gabriel Ellenberg - Accordion
Jon Petter - Clarinet
Caroline Hall - Trombone
Julia Doyle - Double Bass
Keith Moore - Mandolin
Sometimes members:
Joe Townsend - Fiddle
Guy Schalom - Drums (on latest album)
Ex-members:
Tim Petter - Trombone
Justin Patterson - Drums
Tim Israel - Mandolin/Guitar/String things
Adina Presman - Double Bass, Tuba
Glen Gordon - Trumpet
OUT NOW!! "Whitechapel, Mayn Vaytshepl" our new CD is now available.
This fantastic collection of songs and tunes has a strong London seam running through it. The songs bring to life the characters, sites and sounds of the turn-of-the-century Jewish East End. They have been meticulously researched and arranged by the band, and - together with some original compositions - go to make up a very 21st Century traditional klezmer CD!
To purchase on-line go to www.jewishmusic-jmd.co.uk or contact us directly.
Klezmer Klub, set up in the early 90's, is an eclectic mix of musicians who play, and lead dance to Klezmer music and sing Yiddish songs.
Klezmer is, at its heart, dance music, wedding music, both wild and tender. Played by the Klezmorim as they tramped the roads of eastern Europe it is a music that gets to your heart by way of your feet. Often described as bitter-sweet, it came out of poverty and oppression. Both dances and song contain joy, exhilaration and wit alongside the sadness, anger and defiance.
Klezmer Klub play tunes from a variety of sources in a fairly traditional style. Vivi Lachs sings a range of songs, political and feisty, poignant and moving, dramatic and comic. She also leads the steps for the dances so that everyone can – and does – join in.
"The CD "Four Weddings And A Barmitzvah" is one of the best recordings I've heard to capture that 'live' essence of a band in performance… This band play what they like and they play it well, with a great sense of obvious enjoyment about it. One of the most accessible klezmer bands on the London scene."
Derek Reid, fRoots magazine
"They are ever more exuberant, more musically sophisticated. They are bursting at the seams with a kind of generosity of heart, with true klezmer wildness. Their music is altogether a delight to the soul (and to the feet)."
Rabbi Sheila Shulman – Beit Klal Yisrael.
NEWS! We recorded and mastered our new CD "Whitechapel Mayn Vaytshepl" at Sound Solution Mastering in London Fields. Here are the pics of the 2 weekends we spent recording.
hello, we wanted them to listen the songs that we have recorded and they can give us since their opinions we are a very young group and up to now we are beginning, a hug, thanks good-bye
Regards from Colombia, we are a very young group that we are giving to know the music klezmer in Colombia, we are interested in knowing many people that play this I generate, thank you to accept our invitation and we hope to be able to share many things. Bye
A bit of advance notice - MondayMonday proudly presents Rún and Steven Finn and more at The Wilmington Arms, Clerkenwell on Monday 7th December
Rún collect and arrange old folk songs written in the ancient language of Erin. So far, thanks to Nora from Donegal, they have a nice wee collection of well-known ditties and are now adding to their repertoire with some unusual old forgotten songs from the province of Ulster. Rún are five fantastic lassies who perform four-part vocal arrangements of old Gaelic songs like ’An Cailín Rua’ (the red-haired girl), ’Casadh an tSúgain’ (twisting the hayrope) and ’Bo Na Leath Adhairce’ (the one-horned cow). Rún is the Gaelic word for ’secret, wish or love’ (cf. rune). See http://www.myspace.com/runceol ..
Steven Finn’s ears were filled with the music of Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Johnny Cash and old time country music. Aged 15 he began teaching himself the guitar, learning songs like Leadbelly’s ‘Bourgeois Blues’ and Charlie Daniels’ ‘The devil went down to Georgia’. On hearing Bob Dylan songs Finn started to write his own words and in doing so found a lifelong passion for Jazz and Folk Blues, a getaway car he could drive. See http://www.myspace.com/stevenfinn for more details
Just a reminder that Clerkenwell's best Monday Night Folk Night will next be taking place on Monday 2nd November, featuring: Chris Sarjeant and Emma Scarr,plus floor spots and more
Emma Scarr has been active on London’s live scene for approaching two decades. A proficient performer on guitar, fiddle and banjo, in recent years she has concentrated on song craft.
Chris Sarjeant has been recently described as,".a very major addition to the British Folk Scene.." by BBC Folk-musician of the year Tom McConville who added that his guitar work is "...impeccable.."
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