THE popular London Klezmer Quartet will perform in Wauchope during their upcoming Australian tour.
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The quartet will play on Saturday, March 7, at Wauchope Arts Hall, from 8pm.
At the end of their last highly successful Australian visit in early 2014, the London Klezmer Quartet (LKQ) recorded their third album, LKQ Calling, in Melbourne. Their previous CD, Butterfield Green N16, garnered rave reviews internationally and the new one has already been described as "the best album so far" (Trad & Now).
The band's growing Australian fan base, built over three tours in as many years, is bound to respond enthusiastically to the latest material and bring in new fans at live shows, organisers say.
Klezmer now has wide appeal in Australia, bolstered by LKQ's virtuosic and enthusiastic approach to bringing not just the repertoire, but colourful anecdotes about its origins to audiences, helping to make the music accessible.
This is the soulful and celebratory music of Jewish eastern Europe - and wider afield - at its most beguiling and seductive: LKQ combines the subtleties of the original tradition with a kick-the-chairs-over ability to party.
LKQ's material reflects the sacred and secular experiences of klezmorim across centuries and continents, and their "old and new traditional" tunes move audiences from toe-tapping to tears to in moments.
Indra Buraczewska's powerful voice, "Yarraville" Yiddish and Latvian heritage bring a whole new sound world to the group, adding spice to playing that showcases her musical dexterity and maturity on the double bass and that of Susi Evans (clarinet), Ilana Cravitz (violin), and Carol Isaacs (accordion).
The tour will feature songs from the new album including Moses Medley - Let My People Go, performed in a rollicking bluesy style book-ended with evocations of Moses wandering in the desert and the joy of the promised land; Bulbes and a Polish song of praise for potatoes.