Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys

Artist Information

Biography

This NYC-based band combines the best of world/jamband/bluegrass influences to create a danceable and beautiful blend that draws and delights audiences of all ages. Founded by Margot Leverett (original member of Klezmatics) and Barry Mitterhoff (Hot Tuna), their music has been featured by the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago World Music Festival and the Louisville Performing Arts Center.

Instrumentation

Margot Leverett - clarinet, Barry Mitterhoff - mandolin, Kenny Kosek - violin, Joe Selly - guitar, Marty Confurius - bass.
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Discography

"Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys" self-titled CD is distributed by Traditional Crossroads and at www.KlezmerMountainBoys.com. In 2009 we look forward to releasing and touring a brand-new cd featuring guest artists Jorma Kaukonen, Tony Trischka, Darol Anger, Mike Marshall and Hazel Dickens.

Audio

• Kentucky Dance Medley
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• Lonesome Moonlight Waltz and Volich
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Press

• Klezmer Mountain Boys [+ Show ]
  

  Klezmer and Bluegrass sound as if they were meant to be combined. At least that's the conclusion aft...Klezmer and Bluegrass sound as if they were meant to be combined. At least that's the conclusion after listening to this terrific album. Leverett & the Klezmer Mountain Boys have given us a wonderful gift.

• Klezmer Mountain Boys
  

  Cut after cut, this CD is gorgeous, inspired playing.

• Klezmer Mountain Boys [+ Show ]
  

  Leverett's clarinet is a joy to hear as it blends and trades licks and lines with the stringed instr...Leverett's clarinet is a joy to hear as it blends and trades licks and lines with the stringed instruments.

• Klezmer Mountain Boys
  

  Elegant, soulful playing.

• Klezmer Mountain Boys [+ Show ]
  

  Margot Leverett & the Klezmer Mountain Boys (Traditional Crossroads) never loses hold of the village...Margot Leverett & the Klezmer Mountain Boys (Traditional Crossroads) never loses hold of the village roots of this European Jewish music. The brilliant clarinetist Leverett, a former Klezmatic, makes a clever, intricate chamber-music invention here. Bluegrass infiltrates slyly and subtly on several tunes of this deep, beautiful album, but klezmer dominates.
  
  American Jews have been making great bluegrass music for more than 40 years, and fiddler Kenny Kosek and mandolinist Barry Mitterhoff are among the genre's leading lights. with Leverett, they show that an old-word shtetl and a Kentucky one-horse town do not exist in different worlds.

• Paul Taylor's Marvelous Melting Pot [+ Show ]
  

  The sense of something new and wonderful emerging from mixed traditions bursts out of "Klezmerbluegr...The sense of something new and wonderful emerging from mixed traditions bursts out of "Klezmerbluegrass", the new work by Paul Taylor that opened his company's magnificent program Thursday night at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. It is clear before the curtain goes up, in Margot Leverett's lyrical arrangement of klezmer and bluegrass music. The mosaic is there all at once: the swooping, supple notes of the clarinet, the wailing violin, the loping guitar that quickens the pace, joined by bright, lift-you-out-of-your-seat fiddling.

Setlist

45 to 75-minute sets. Our unique medleys move seamlessly between klezmer and bluegrass.

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