Video 1: “Freylekhs far di vayber פֿריילעכס פֿאַר די ווײַבער (Freylekhs for Women)” at Brooklyn Folk Festival, November 12, 2021
Musicians:
Zisl Slepovitch, clarinet, arrangement
Ljova, fadolín (6-string violin)
Joshua Camp Music, accordion
Taylor Bergren-Chrisman, double bass
Sam Weisenberg, poyk

Video 2:”Es Vet Zayn Sheyn Un Fayn (It Will Be Swell and Fine” from Lviv Klezfest in Ukraine, 2017

The Litvakus Klezmer Band bids farewell to 2021 with its first and only public concert at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 on Lower East Side on December 27, 2021 at 9:PM, where klezmer music and Yiddish songs used to be mainstay for many decades. Old and new pieces, all equally enjoyable, will make you feel like dancing! Litvakus is New York Belarusian Jewish roots / HIP / acoustic punk klezmer band.

Litvakus excerpts from their website: Litvakus, founded and led by the clarinetist, vocalist, and composer Zisl Slepovitch, is a critically acclaimed klezmer collective, the first to focus exclusively on the music and culture of Litvak Jews and their neighbors in Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and parts of Ukraine. Litvakus features a uniquely distinct sound, a mix of drones from Belarusian bagpipes and stings, with a recognizably Jewish idiom, and high-energy, “shtetl-disco” music, along with traditional Eastern European Jewish vocals. The band’s repertoire also includes contemporary klezmer pieces written in the spirit of roots music. Litvakus equally fits chamber and large open-air settings, plays at festivals, concert venues, clubs and private events.

Litvakus first performed in 2008 in the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s production of Gimpel Tam after I.B.Singer. Among group’s programs are Traveling the Yiddishland with Michael Alpert (2012), Raysn: The Music of Jewish Belarus (2014); and GoyFriend with Sasha Lurje (2018).

Buy tickets online or at door (subject to availability):
$20 + service fee.
Doors open at 8:PM. The show starts at 9:PM.

For further information: litvakusband@gmail.com