Three international masters of World music come together to perform a unique programme of klezmer and Yiddish song, with added Hungarian, Russian & Roma flavours. Witness this unique music-making process and join in with some singing and dancing.
Born in New York City, Jake Shulman-Ment is at the helm of a new generation of Klezmer music performers. A widely sought-out teacher of the fiddle tradition. He collected, studied, performed, and documented traditional music in Romania as a Fulbright scholar, and has lived and travelled in Hungary and Greece, learning traditional violin styles.
Francesca Ter-Berg is a multi-disciplinary artist. Known for her uniqueplaying style, she is a specialist in Klezmer music, a songwriter, composer, ethnographer and improviser. She is also a specialist in Roma music, regularly teaches workshops in the style and creative music making.
Whilst living in Kazan (capital of Tatarstan) and studying at the State Academy, Polina Shepherd joined Russia′s first klezmer band after Perestroika. Since moving to the UK in 2004, she has toured and taught internationally as a solo artist and also collaborating with various musicians and choirs.
They will perform traditional and original material in a unique half improvised programme – only in Brighton!