Klezmer music from The Kugels

Take a top New Zealand composer and Arts Laureate, the leader of New Zealand’s saxophone ensemble Saxcess, a talented New Zealand violinist recently retired from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, an eclectic orchestral player/street band leader – and you have The Kugels, touring the country with Arts on Tour NZ throughout October and performing in Christchurch on Wednesday 12th October 2016, 7.30 p.m. at Orange Studio, Ferrymead.

The folk idiom of the Jewish people, klezmer was originally played at weddings and other celebrations in Easter and Central Europe.  The music gained popularity in America with the arrival of Yiddish speaking immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, assimilating jazz elements into the mix.  The Kugels play klezmer, but it is the ‘original’ pre-jazz klezmer, influenced by revivalists this century, as well as repertoire Soviet and Israeli immigrants brought to the US in the 1980s.

“It’s music that makes you want to dance – spirited, wild and haunting”.

Tickets are $25.00 and can be booked at Cosmic ticketing and Eventfinda.

The Kugels are Ross Harris, Debbie Rawson, Robin Perkins and Jaqueline Nordon

For more information, contact: Arts On Tour NZ Trust, aotnz@xtra.co.nz or www.aotnz.co.nz

Debbie Rawson, 021 189 5995, debbie@saxcess.com