The sun shined for the Rebs at Greytown Arts Festival on Sunday 24 January
Here are a few snaps from our 2 sets.
At the end we enjoyed an old fashioned jam session with the other musos on the bill.
Palmerston North concert review: “Lively group stirs soul with energy”
Stephen Fisher of the Manawatu Standard reviews the Klezmer Rebs’ 17 January performance at the Palmerston North Library with lots of kind words here.
Dompost’s Simon Sweetman reviews Just Add Shmaltz
Simon Sweetman published a short review of the Klezmer Reb’s CD Just Add Shmaltz in The Dominion Post, Friday 2 October 2009, in the Entertainment section, page B6. From the review:
If you have enjoyed The Benka Borodovsky Bordello Band or The Jews Brothers, then The Klezmer Rebs will be to your taste…. It’s thigh-slapping music that is likely to be returning to a Botanic Garden concert near you.
Just Add Shmaltz reviewed in The Listener
In the Listener (26 September – 2 October 2009, page 43) Ian Dando gives a great review of the Reb’s latest CD Just Add Shmaltz:
This Wellington octet can let their hair down and swing Jewish wedding music with energetic solos just where it matters on clarinet, violin and trumpet, with spontaneous lead singing to match. Clarinet solos are wildly creative in their Russian-flavoured Ochi Chorniye. There are some crackers when they leave traditional klezmer and write their own, especially the opening Kumt Kumt Chaverim, with its catchy refrains gyrating tonally between E minor and B flat major. The Rebs offer genuine in-style klezmer sonority, played with bubbling festivity.
Just Add Shmaltz hits the shops
You can get Just Add Shmaltz in fine music shops now. This photo was taken at The CD & DVD Store at Wellington Airport. Yeah, that’s us right next to Fat Freddy’s Drop! If your favourite shop doesn’t have a copy, ask them to order through Ode Records.
Klezmer Rebs on Radio New Zealand National
Listen to The Klezmer Rebs playing and being interviewed by Jim Mora on Radio New Zealand National’s Afternoons programme on 7 August 2009.
Just add shmaltz CD now available through Ode Records
The Rebs new CD Just add shmaltz can now be obtained through Ode Records http://www.oderecords.co.nz/default.asp – we are featured on their site here http://www.oderecords.co.nz/highlights.asp?GenreID=11 (or you can order it on the cheap direct from us at http://klezmer.co.nz/cd-order/)
So ring up Ode chief honcho Roger Marbeck on 09 630 117 and tell him thanks for supporting NZ music. Oh yes, and order a hundred or so for your music shop!
New sillier mix of Ochi Chorniye
Here’s a track you won’t find on our Just Add Shmaltz CD – because it was too silly, even for us. But thanks to the Internet and our decreased inhibitions, you can now hear us in our full sillier glory:
Videos of 3 Rebs songs now on website
Rebs shower the crowds with klezmer at Organic River Festival
The Klezmer Rebs played a 75 minute set to the Organic River Festival crowd on Sunday (18 January) amidst the mud, wind, rain, and yes, even sunshine!
Around about the 3rd or 4th Rebs song the heavens opened up and deluged the crowd, driving the listeners for cover and the sound team (who were excellent!) scurrying to keep us from being electrocuted.
Thanks for the remaining audience who stuck around to listen to the rest of our set. The sun came back out, and we finished with Urs’s anthemic Anarchia Total.
Klutz of the day and a big Homer Simpson ‘Doh’ to Reb David who fluffed his cue on Ochi Chornya.