Maxwell Street Klezmer Band

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Yoshke/Tantz, Yidelekh (Dance On, Jewish People) 00:00 Tools
Klezmer Rhapsody for Violin 00:00 Tools
Tumbalalaika (Strum, Balalaika) 00:00 Tools
Mazl Tov Dances 02:47 Tools
Zol Zayn Gelebt (Live To Enjoy!) 00:00 Tools
Ach! Odessa 00:00 Tools
Chiribim 00:00 Tools
Tumbalalaika - Strum, Balalaika 00:00 Tools
Hopkele 00:00 Tools
Vu Bistu Geveyn Ven Di Gelt Iz Geveyn (Where You Was When The Money Was?) 00:00 Tools
Abi Gezunt (Good Health Is All That Counts) 00:00 Tools
Doina, Chosidl, the Lark 00:00 Tools
Csardas 00:00 Tools
And the Angels Sing 00:00 Tools
Der Heyser Bulgar (Hot Dance) 00:00 Tools
Galitzianer Vs. Litvak (The Polish Jew Vs. The Lithuanian Jew) 00:00 Tools
Sammy's Freilachs 00:00 Tools
Compote 00:00 Tools
A Freilechs Fun Der Hupe (Wedding Recessional) 00:00 Tools
Lebedike Honga (A Lively Honga) 00:00 Tools
Sheyn Vi Di Levoneh (Beautiful Like The Moon) 00:00 Tools
Meheteyneste Mayne (The Mothers-In-Law) 00:00 Tools
Chusn Kalleh Mazl Tov (Congratulations, Bride And Groom) 00:00 Tools
A Yiddishe Mama (A Jewish Mama) 00:00 Tools
Undzer Toyrele (Our Beloved Torah) 00:00 Tools
Vu Bistu Geveyn Ven Di Gelt Iz Geveyn - Where You Was When The Money Was? 00:00 Tools
Oy, Abram 00:00 Tools
Di Rebbetzin (The Rabbi's Wife) 00:00 Tools
Der Heyser Bulgar - Hot Dance 00:00 Tools
Leah's Saraband 00:00 Tools
Friling (Spring) 00:00 Tools
A Freilechs Fun Der Hupe - Wedding Recessional 00:00 Tools
A Yiddishe Mama - A Jewish Mama 00:00 Tools
Shpil Di Fidl, Shpil/Yidl Mitn Fidl (Play, Fiddle, Play/Yidl With the Fiddle) 00:00 Tools
Firn Di Mehetonim Aheym, Warshaver Freilachs (Escorting The IN-Laws Home, Warsaw) 00:00 Tools
Tumbalalaika 00:00 Tools
Meheteyneste Mayne - The Mothers-In-Law 00:00 Tools
Shpil di Fidl, Shpil / Yidl mitn Fidl (Play, Fiddle, Play / Yidl With The Fiddle) 00:00 Tools
Sammy's Freilechs 00:00 Tools
Abi Gezunt 00:00 Tools
Sheyn Vi Di Levoneh - Beautiful Like The Moon 00:00 Tools
Czardas Monti 00:00 Tools
Rumania 00:00 Tools
Ocho Kandelikas 00:00 Tools
Kolomeyke 00:00 Tools
Moscow Nights 00:00 Tools
Firn Di Mehetonim Aheym, Warshaver Freilachs - Escorting The In-Laws Home, Warsaw 00:00 Tools
Der Heyser Bulgar 00:00 Tools
Sheyn Vi Di Levoneh 00:00 Tools
Vu Bistu Geveyn Ven Di Gelt Iz Geveyn 00:00 Tools
A Yiddishe Mama 00:00 Tools
Freitog Noch'n Tsimis 00:00 Tools
Sha, Shtil! 00:00 Tools
Freilechs Fun Der Hupe 00:00 Tools
Firn Di Mehetonim Aheym, Warshaver Freilachs (Escorting The In-Laws Home, Warsaw 00:00 Tools
Lebedike Honga 00:00 Tools
Meheteyneste Mayne 00:00 Tools
Di Rebbetzin 00:00 Tools
Chusn Kalleh Mazl Tov (Congratulations Bride & Groom) 00:00 Tools
Der Rebbe Geyt 00:00 Tools
Hotcha Cornia 00:00 Tools
Expectation Waltz 00:00 Tools
Doina/Chosidl/The Lark 00:00 Tools
Lebedik un Freylach 00:00 Tools
Crimean Sketches 00:00 Tools
Shpilt Mir, Klezmorimlach 00:00 Tools
Russian Sher 00:00 Tools
Mi Yimalel, Chaim from Odessa 00:00 Tools
Di Rebbetzin - The Rabbi's Wife 00:00 Tools
Zol Zayn Gelebt 00:00 Tools
Rumeynishe Fantazye 00:00 Tools
Bei Mir Bistu Sheyn, Yossel Yossel, Sherele 00:00 Tools
Kolomeike 00:00 Tools
L'Shmoa 00:00 Tools
Odessa Bulgar 00:00 Tools
Yiddishe Mama (A Jewish Mama) 00:00 Tools
Doina (Nifty Brandwine) 00:00 Tools
Tumbalalaika [Strum, Balalaika] 00:00 Tools
Matzorena 00:00 Tools
Yoshke/Tanz, Yidelekh (Yoshke/Dance On, Jewish People) 00:00 Tools
Vu Bistu Geveyn Ven Di Gelt Iz Geveyn [Where You Was When the Money W] 00:00 Tools
Firn Di Mehetonim Aheym/warshaver Freilachs 00:00 Tools
Freitog Noch'n Tzimis 00:00 Tools
Serba 00:00 Tools
Doina 00:00 Tools
Chusn Kalleh Mazl Tov 00:00 Tools
Rumanian Rhapsody 00:00 Tools
Kinder Yorn 00:00 Tools
Doina_Chosidl_The Lark 00:00 Tools
Big Band and Latin 00:00 Tools
Freilechs Fun Der Chupeh 00:00 Tools
Mazel Tov Mechutonim 00:00 Tools
Mi Yimalel/Chaim from Odessa 00:00 Tools
Meheteyneste Mayne [The Mother-In-Laws] 00:00 Tools
Lebedik Un Freilech 00:00 Tools
Russian-Jewish Wedding 00:00 Tools
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The Maxwell Street Klezmer band is a 10-piece ensemble, started in 1983. The leader, Lori Lippitz, was influenced by the Klezmorim (of Berkeley, California) whom she heard in the mid-70s on a Chicago radio show called The Midnight Special. After graduate school at the University of Chicago, Lippitz devoted herself to creating a revival of klezmer music in the Chicago Jewish community by founding a klezmer band that could serve in the traditional role of entertaining at weddings and bar mitzvah parties. In 1990, Russian violinist Alex Koffman became the band's arranger and Musical Director. In its 26-year history, the band recorded five CDs* and played at eight European festivals, mostly in Germany. The most prestigious concerts were at Carnegie Hall and the Barbican in London (1998). The band has shared the stage with Theo Bikel, Peter Yarrow and Debbie Friedman. In 2008, Lori's old school friend Rabbi Joe Black collaborated on a Hanukkah-themed recording called Eight Nights of Joy (Sounds Write Productions). The band's plans as of 2010 are to revive the Yiddish Arts Ensemble production "Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins" and tour it, and to expand the integration of traditional Jewish dance at weddings with New York-born Dance Master Steve Weintraub. *Maxwell Street Days (1986), Sweet Early Years (1992), You Should Be So Lucky! (1996), Old Roots New World (2000), Eight Nights of Joy with Rabbi Joe Black (2008). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.