Europe and Back with Klezmer All Stars Duo

The klezmer All Stars Duo (Glenn Hartman, Jonathan Freilich) made it to Austria, Spain, and back.  A second European trip completed! Shows were-

in Austria:

Klezmore festival, Vienna
Amberner-
 

The Amberner

In Catalunya:

Barcelona
San Feliu de Guixols
Girona
Celra

Girona

The album is still available!

Special thanks to our friends out there who made it possible or helped along the way:

Thomas Shudek- King of Malwonia
Albert Mestres- sharp swift booking attacks in Spain
Fermin Muguruza- online support. Black is Beltza!

With Klezmer All Stars Duo-Germany for 5 shows- Berlin, Kiel, Schönberg, Neuestadt, Celle

Playing Kaffee Burger, Berlin on March 20th with Glenn Hartman- accordion.  

In case you are in Berlin or are interested...

(Also those more obscure shows)

Also playing in Kiel Germany on the 22nd of March

New Record Out: HATS- New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars Duo

The debut record by the fledgling New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars Duo is out!  You can pick it up at CD Baby and the iTunes store- (at least, when the algorithm that lists it gets around to its job.

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Glenn Hartman and I are on the way to Germany right now to play a small run of concerts and get the record out to people.  The record features a fair amount of experimentation and new-ish sounds.  Get a copy!

Roundup of last weekend

Sitting in airport to Hamburg for a two week stint in Germany with the klezmer all-stars duo.  That is Glenn Hartman and I- accordion and guitar.

Still frozen in my mind was the wondrous musical night at Chickie Wah Wah on Saturday night with the James Singleton Quartet.  (Johnny Vidacovich-dr; Rex Gregory-sax, b.cl, sax; James Singleton- bass; Jonathan Freilich-gtr).  I had the feeling it went better than the previous Chickie Wa Wa show, which is really something because of how interesting that show was.

Also memorable were a couple of hits with the Washboard Chaz blues trio.  I got to revisit on the outside, a lot of the music that drives me on the inside.  And it was fun too- if not very physical- "I've got blisters on me fingers"

Before all that, in the daytime, i got to play a Tom Paines set up at the old Ironworks.  Mcmurray in good form after just having his first kid show up in the world.  Congratulations to him!

The whole trip to New Orleans was such a pleasure. Getting to visit and play with the musicians I know.  Cavort around town with all my old friends.  Back soon, of course- it's jazzfest. the Klezmer All- Stars are on at the top of the first weekend.  See you there.