Catch the Klezmer Rebs in a live street set at Hannah’s Courtyard on Saturday 28th 2-2.30pm and Sunday 29th March 12-12.30pm as part of CubaDupa

Sunday the Rebs roam and parade the streets of Newtown bringing tuchas-shaking fun. We start from the Good World Stage on Emmet Street at 12pm; we also parade from Normanby Street at 2.45. But if you want the full band performing our latest material from our new record “Back to Futuna” (available on Bandcamp, or at the gig) then watch and boogie to a full hour set of the Klezmer Rebs at 6pm in Arney Street (Little Poland).

Link to Rebs’ performances at WellyFest here

https://www.youtube.com/@davidweinstein3099

On Saturday at the Wellington Folk Festival the Klezmer Rebs will be launching their NEW! record Back to Futuna, which includes a BONUS record Repertoire – The best of 23 1/2 years of the Klezmer Rebs.

Back to Futuna comprises 6 new tracks recorded live at Futuna Chapel. Repertoire features 15 songs – the Best of 23 1/2 Years of Klezmer Rebs.

You can download the tracks from Bandcamp

https://klezmer.bandcamp.com/album/back-to-futuna-repertoire-best-of-23-1-2-years-of-klezmer-rebs

or contact me via Messenger or Facebook and I can send you a flash drive with all the music files and liner notes.

Want to get Folked?

Come to the Wellington Folk Festival on Labour weekend in Wainuiomata and you can catch the Rebs there. We will perform a feature set on Saturday afternoon 25 October, hold a klezmer workshop on Sunday afternoon and return tot he main stage for the Showcase concert on Sunday evening 26 October.

Tickets available here https://events.humanitix.com/wellington-folk-festival-2025-our-60th/tickets

Choose your klezmer preference!

One set or two?

Acoustic refinement or bohemian bookstore?

Suburban Karori chapel or Tory Street vibe?

Afternoon delight or nitetime showtime?

Make your choice.  If you missed our stunning ‘Double clarinet trouble’ concert in Titahi Bay (and boyo it was awesome – watch Ut a Zey sings the tailor on youtube) 

you have two choices in May to catch the KIezmer Rebs live.

The Undercurrent bookstore Saturday 10 May 7.30pm

118 Tory Street, Wellington

Doors open at 7:00pm. Two sets of tuchas shaking authentic klezmer and European folk music from 7:30pm.

Tickets are $20 at the door – RSVP through https://www.undercurrent.nz/ 021 0823 1660vibes@undercurrent.nz

or book your tickets and secure your place at this cozy venue

https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2025/klezmer-rebs/wellington  or  https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/tour/28624/Klezmer-Rebs.utr

Futuna Chapel Sunday 11 May 2pm

Experience klezmer music in the modernist surrounds of acoustically exquisite Futuna Chapel as part of the Colours of Futuna Concert series 

in Futuna Close, off Friend Street, Karori, Wellington

Tickets $15 for a one hour set on Sunday 11 May at 2pm. 

Book now on Eventbrite at https://tinyurl.com/4tpsp5hx or tickets at the door.

Its double clarinet trouble as supremo clarinettist Urs Signer journeys south from Taranaki to join Wellington-based Reb Andre Nowicki for a two-clarinet attack as the Klezmer Rebs perform a mostly acoustic concert up the coast at the Niblick Hall in Titahi Bay on Saturday 1 March at 7.30pm

Urs, Andre, Emma, Rob, David, Rose and world-roaming trombonist Jonathan will play two sets of an eclectic mix of lively klezmer tunes, Sephardic Ladino love songs, sad slice-of-life story-songs from the ‘old country’, and some of their quirky originals and classic tuchas-shaking authentic klezmer dance tunes.

Get your tickets on line for $25 or $20 concession. Get tickets here: https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2025/klezmer-rebs-in-concert-double-clarinet-trouble/porirua-mana/tickets

The Klezmer Rebs travel to Palmerston North and Whanganui for two out of town gigs. Catch them

2 November 7.30pm Bent Horseshoe presents at Hokowhiti Bowling Club, 279 Albert Street, Palmerston North $25

3 November 6.30-8.30pm Whanganui Jazz Club, St Johns Club, Glasgow Street $25

Then back in Wellington for the Polish Xmas Market on Saturday 16 November at 2pm and 5pm, 257 Riddiford Street, Newtown, Wellington

Klezmer Rebs performance schedule for rest of 2023

Thursday 27 July Old St Pauls  12.30 – 1.15pm Musical Punch Over Lunch series 

Sunday 13 August Friends of Pataka Winter Music Series 2-3pm

Saturday 4 November Palmerston North Horokiwi Bowling Club – nighttime concert

Sunday 5 November Whanganui Jazz Club – nighttime concert