The Klezmer Rebs ethnic music band return for the fourth (and sadly, the last) time to the wonderful Tokomaru venue the Bent Horseshoe on Saturday 30 May.
The Rebs bring their engaging style of European and Yiddish / klezmer world/folk music born out of the Yiddish/Jewish culture of eastern Europe in the 1800s and 1900s.
Klezmer Rebs instrumentation includes guitar and mandolin, violin, clarinet, accordion, keyboards, bass, recorder and vocals. The Rebs play a range of slice-of-life Yiddish klezmer story songs about the ‘old country’. You will also enjoy partisan songs from Italy, Russian folk tunes, French chansons, Latin cowboy love songs, Roma / gypsy jams, and English language jazz and 1940s swing vocal songs. Their own quirky, politically charged multi-lingual originals are some of the most popular crowd tunes.
The Klezmer Rebs have been shaking ‘tuchases’ in Wellington and places north since 2002, recently wowing crowds in Whanganui and Palmerston North’s Culture Festivals.
Tickets are $20 for two sets of music and enjoy the wonderful intimate ambiance of the ‘Shoe café before Steve gets put out to pasture with the local bovines.
