Klezmer Rebs
About Klezmer Rebs from Wellington
Website for more info and to listen/watch us play: www.klezmer.co.nz
The Klezmer Rebs are an 8 piece Wellington band that plays klezmer music, an engaging style of world/folk music born out of the Yiddish/Jewish culture of eastern Europe in the 1800s and 1900s. The Klezmer Rebs play an eclectic mix of up-beat ethnic dance and wedding music, along with a few familiar and english language tracks.
Klezmer Rebs instrumentation includes guitar and mandolin, two violins, accordion, keyboards, trumpet, trombone, recorder and vocals. About half of the group members are Jewish, 3 are ex-Yanks, one Brit, and one anarchic Swiss clarinet player. Together the Rebs capture the true klezmer spirit with songs of joy, sorrow and rebellion.
The Klezmer Rebs have been shaking tuchases in Wellington and places north since 2002, playing at the Parihaka Festival, the New Plymouth Festival of Lights in 2008, Festival of the Elements in Porirua (February 2005, 2006, 2009), the Wellington Folk Festival (October 2005 and 2007), at Te Papa for the World Music Festival (2006) and the 2006 and 2008 Wellington Fringe Festival. This summer (2008/09) the Rebs wowed a huge crowd at the Wellington City Council’s Magic Gardens (Botanic Gardens Soundshell), and played at the Organic River Festival in Levin, the Newtown Fair and opened a day of music at Waitangi Park on Waitangi day.
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