Date:
Friday, March 5, 2027
Time:
7:00 PM
Advance Ticket:
$46.62
Advance Member Ticket:
$42.00
Door Ticket:
$52.50
Student Ticket:
$26.25
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Kuumbwa Jazz Presents

The Klezmatics

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6:00 PM
All Ages
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The Klezmatics return with a powerful new album and live program. Celebrating forty years at the forefront of global roots music, the band brings We Were Made For These Times to the stage – a bold, cross-cultural project shaped by songs of protest, resilience, and radical joy.

Blending Yiddish song with Black gospel, Latin rhythms, and avant-jazz, The Klezmatics transform tradition into a living, evolving musical language – urgent, joyful, and deeply relevant today. World-renowned and GRAMMY-winning superstars of the klezmer world, The Klezmatics erupted out of New York City’s East Village in 1986 and revitalized klezmer for the new century with music that is steeped in Eastern European Jewish tradition and spirituality, while incorporating contemporary themes such as human rights and anti-fundamentalism with eclectic musical influences. They have released thirteen albums of wild, spiritual, provocative, reflective, and ecstatically danceable music, forever redefining and transcending traditional labels.

The Klezmatics Website 
(Ticket Includes 5% City of Santa Cruz Admission Tax)

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