free online klezmer concert!

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Here is a free online event from XenoMusic, for all Klezmer fans, and then for 
all those interested in music from Gypsies, Morocco, etc. as well. 

(XenoMusic is a site that archives all kinds of music form all over the world, 
but especially from central and eastern europe, www.xenomusic.com  The site 
also has many albums and tracks to be downloaded, some for free...)

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http://news.xenomusic.com/features/features_20020712.html

There's always time for klezmer music!

The second stop on XenoMusic?s ?Backward Music Tour? ? where the musicians 
don?t come to your home town stage, but you go on a reverse migration through 
their countries ? brings you to Jewish Romania, Hungary, and Moldova: in a 
nutshell, Jewish klezmer from the Carpathian Basin, performed by Di Naye 
Kapelye.

Di Naye Kapelye means "The New Band" in Yiddish, stressing this band?s belief 
that klezmer music is not a bygone form, but a living, breathing, dancing, 
singing tradition. Jewish music researcher and collector Bob Cohen founded the 
group in Hungary in 1994 with international musicians who all had a passion 
for the traditional dance house movement and finding the roots of Yiddish 
music in the Carpathian Basin. Thus, through old recordings, field work with 
Gypsy and Jewish bands who preserved the music and served communities through 
the ?70s, and interviews with elderly members of the Jewish community, Di Naye 
Kapelye succeeds in perfectly recreating the sounds that one would have heard 
throughout Eastern Europe ? including Hungary, Romania and Moldova, and 
Yiddish folk songs of regional character.

Though the group works hard at recreating that authentic pre-war klezmer 
sound, they are emphatically not a museum band. Cohen stressed how mixed the 
klezmer sound was even in 1900: a mixture of Asian, European, Jewish and 
Gentile, folk and classical musicianship. "It was a kind of proto-world-
music," he explained. "And this kind of music is meant to be fun!"

Though the band usually operates as a quintet, a concentrated, simple 3-piece 
form of the band played for XenoMusic?s live recording ? so for now, we?ll 
just call those who were present the Di Naye Kapelye Trio: Bob Cohen, 
Christina Crowder and Feri Pribojszki. Bob Cohen not only speaks every 
language in the book, but musically he?s very well-versed as well, playing 
violin, mandolin, flutes, and singing. He?s a member of the Jewish Music 
Research Center at Budapest's ELTE University, and has done extensive field 
research in klezmer and Yiddish music in Eastern Europe, the United States, 
and Israel, which certainly has helped him in the accomplishments of this 
terrific band. Christina Crowder plays accordion and drum, and as recipient of 
a Fulbright scholarship to research the history of accordion music in Romania, 
is involved directly in researching folk music in villages just as Bob is. 
She?s also active in such various folk scenes as Irish and Scandinavian as 
well as village Gypsies in Transylvania. Feri Pribojszki (cimbalom), member of 
the Bekes Band and former member of Hungarian State Folk Ensemble, is a well-
known musician in the Budapest "Tánchaz" (dance house) scene. He also plays 
Moldavian flutes and harmonica.

Although some band members were missing, the audience didn?t seem to mind the 
smaller set ? after all, it just freed up more room for them to dance! Opening 
with good-time Jewish wedding music, the trio sang in Yiddish, fiddled and 
stomped the crowd into an emotional start to the evening. The best way to 
experience the atmosphere is to listen to it yourself?

Listen to this great concert on XenoRadio by clicking here! (You must have 
Winamp to listen) 

For more info on Di Naye Kapelye, see http://www.dinayekapelye.com/.

For more similar music in the XenoMusic archives, use the ?music search by 
genre? button in the upper left hand corner!

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