Alverno Presents: Performing Arts Events
The Klezmatics Second Annual Woody Guthrie Happy Joyous Hanukkah Tour
Saturday December 8, 2007 8 p.m.
Pitman Theatre
Ticket Price:
$32
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“The Klezmatics aren’t just the best band in the klezmer vanguard … they rank among
the best bands on the planet.” (Time Out New York). Blending klezmer with aching
shtetl melodies, raucous Latin stomps, wild jazz riffs and provocative Arabic, African,
American and Balkan rhythms, the Klezmatics don’t so much cross genres as blast
through them completely. But their two latest CDs -- Wonder Wheel (winner of the
2007 Grammy for World Music) and Happy Joyous Hanukkah – set the ol’ klezmameter
on warp speed by composing new songs to previously unrecorded Woody Guthrie lyrics.
Imagine what Billy Bragg and Wilco did with their two volumes of Mermaid Avenue,
but with a stunning klezlocity that will leave you breathlessly klezmazmerized.
www.klezmatics.com