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30 ROKOV PREßBURGER KLEZMER BAND! 🎶 - VEĽKOLEPÝ DVOJKONCERT
30 years Preßburger Klezmer Band! 🎶 - spectacular double concert
Event by: Shalom Chaverim, ŽNO Bratislava / Bratislava Jewish Community
Location: Theater Arena, Viedenská cesta 10, Bratislava - Petržalka
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The Jewish Culture Festival Shalom Chaverim 2025 brings a unique musical experience on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Preßburger Klezmer Band! We invite you to an unforgettable double concert, which will take place on September 11, 2025 at 19:00 at the Arena Theater. A special guest of the evening will be Running Through The Woods from the UK. In this unique connection, two distinctive British duos - Merlin & Polina Shepherd (improvisation, freedom, spontaneity and interconnection of cultures) and Fran & Flora (original mixture of folk, avant -garde and popular music). Do not miss a concert that will become a musical event of the year and combine top artists from home and abroad. - Seth Rogovoy, author of the book "The Essential Klezmer"
Duo Merlin and Polina Shepherd (clarinets, singing, piano) performs together in a way that we rarely encounter. They play music from several interconnected cultures with improvisation, freedom and spontaneity. The playful approach of the duo to their root traditions - Klezmer, Slavic, Eastern European and South -More -edom - is full of knowledge and respect. It creates a unique sound that includes the persistent spirit of folklore and the listener moves to new dimensions. Productions ...
https://merlinpolinashepherd.wordpress.com
Critician awarded recordings folk, avant -garde and popular music. The second album Precious Collection (Hidden Notes Records'24, Guardian Folk Album of the Year) represents a unique sophisticated yids and original compositions for violon, violin, electronics, voices and drums that create intimate, sugest and "boundaries cross" (my) esthetics. It draws material directly from archival recordings, found manuscripts and a study with traditional music masters from Maramureș to Berlin and New York. Fran & Flora do not produce music from the past era, their complexly modeled contemporary and virtuoso sound was described as "as experimental as accessible" (The Guardian). sold out audiences at prestigious festivals and places.
Duo Merlin and Polina Shepherd (clarinets, singing, piano) performs together in a way that we rarely encounter. They play music from several interconnected cultures with improvisation, freedom and spontaneity. The playful approach of the duo to their root traditions - Klezmer, Slavic, Eastern European and South -More -edom - is full of knowledge and respect. It creates a unique sound that includes the persistent spirit of folklore and the listener moves to new dimensions. Productions ...
https://merlinpolinashepherd.wordpress.com
Critician awarded recordings folk, avant -garde and popular music. The second album Precious Collection (Hidden Notes Records'24, Guardian Folk Album of the Year) represents a unique sophisticated yids and original compositions for violon, violin, electronics, voices and drums that create intimate, sugest and "boundaries cross" (my) esthetics. It draws material directly from archival recordings, found manuscripts and a study with traditional music masters from Maramureș to Berlin and New York. Fran & Flora do not produce music from the past era, their complexly modeled contemporary and virtuoso sound was described as "as experimental as accessible" (The Guardian). sold out audiences at prestigious festivals and places.