Isle of Klezbos
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Isle of Klezbos

New York City, New York, United States | INDIE

New York City, New York, United States | INDIE
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"The New Yorker: Isle of Klezbos at Barbes"

“Isle of Klezbos tests the elasticity of the genre” - The New Yorker magazine


"Time Out NY: Beloved (& Fun) Worldwide"

"Internationally acclaimed and much-loved... We'd make a joke, but they beat us to it." - Time Out New York


"Talent as strong as name is provocative"

“Talent as strong as its name is provocative... The all-female group is to Eastern European Jewish music what Cherish The Ladies is to Celtic” - The Courier News (northern NJ)


"Magical Musical Vacation: Isle of Klezbos"

"For a musical holiday, procure a ticket to the the Isle of Klezbos... an upbeat getaway... a refreshing fluidity...'irreverent respect.'" - Ginger Mason, X-tra West, Vancouver BC - X-tra West (Vancouver BC)


"Playful, virtuosic, pyrotechnic, haunting"

"Excellent, haunting all-female klezmer band... featuring the human crescendo Pam Fleming on trumpet, a slinky frontwoman, and the astonishingly inventive Eve Sicular on drums... mischievously virtuosic.
An often pyrotechnic display of extemporaneous virtuosity... [Debra] Kreisberg, a purist clarinetist with impeccable taste and a love for dark, plaintive melody showed off a surprisingly playful wit when she played alto sax... New vocalist Melissa Fogarty was at the absolute top of her game, cutting loose with a wail that was as sultry as it was clear and pure." - Lucid Culture - Lucid Culture


"Powerhouse, soulful all-gal klezmer sextet"

"Powerhouse, soulful all-female klezmer sextet... These women will make you shake your tushies!" - Village Voice Choices Pick
- The Village Voice


"Swinging supergroup, offbeat humor"

"A supergroup... with an offbeat sense of humor and a relaxed sense of swing" - George Robinson, Jewish Week - The Jewish Week (New York)


"Great Ears & Great Hearts"

“Great ears and great hearts” - Der Pakn Treger, National Yiddish Book Center ... full magazine feature article on Isle of Klezbos, also re-rerun in anniversary issue. (We've performed on their stage in Western Massachusetts over half a dozen times: campus of Hampshire College) - Der Pakn Treger: National Yiddish Book Ctr magazine


"One of the finest young klezmer bands"

"One of the finest young klezmer bands ever to appear on the block" -- from full top-rated review of our CD, Greetings from the Isle of Klezbos. [major UK world music website] - The Phat Planet [UK]


"Absolute top of the klezmer genre"

"The absolute top of the klezmer genre" - RootsTown, Belgium
[translated from Flemish; full text available on request] - RootsTown, Belgium


Discography

"Greetings from the Isle of Klezbos" (Rhythm Media Records, 2003) CD, international airplay on over 200 stations, nominated for Outmusic Award: Outstanding Producer.

Also appearing on Metropolitan Klezmer's "Traveling Show" - Klezbonus track: COMES LOVE; Best of 2007 - Jewish Week, LA Jewish Journal.

Cameos on Metropolitan Klezmer's Outmusic Awardwinning disc "Mosaic Persuasion" (2001). 'Isle of Klezbos tests the elasticity of the genre' - The New Yorker; 'Great ears and great hearts' - Der Pakn Treger
Major label track on Tommyboy Records for "The L Word Sessions," Season 2.

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Bio

Isle of Klezbos is a fun-loving, soulful powerhouse female-fueled sextet touring from Vienna to Vancouver, performing a fabulous assortment pack of Yiddish-inspired dance, trance, swing, tango, and even genre-bending originals. Savoring and subverting tradition since 1998, as heard on The L Word, PBS, and CNN Worldbeat ... Based right in New York City. "These women will make you shake your tushies!" - Village Voice

The group's debut disc, "Greetings from the Isle of Klezbos" (Rhythm Media Records: 2004) is distributed by Stern's Music worldwide, is an Outmusic Award nominee, Outstanding Producer; and made the Phat Planet World Music Top 30 albums of the year.

In December 2009, Isle of Klezbos also recorded with Grammy-nominated, double platinum artists for that glam band's third album... awaiting this release so we can disclose their world-famous identity, Klezbos' studio session track was a rocking horn and syncopation danceable raging lovefest. Isle of Klezbos has also played BAM Cafe, Joe's Pub, Seattle's Bumbershoot, St Louis' Edison Theatre (double bill with Cowboy Envy), Michigan Womyn's Music Festival (four times on NightStage), Merkin Hall (with Stonewall Chorale), Vienna's KlezMORE (2004 festival finale, 2007 gala opening: both full houses), Brooklyn Museum's First Saturday, and The Linda at WAMC, plus colleges from Vassar to Skidmore to Harvard. Live broadcasts have included PBS' In The Life, CNN Worldbeat; and soundtrack of two L Word episodes on Showtime (Season Two).

Founded by drummer/bandleader Eve Sicular and several of her female bandmates from NYC's famed Metropolitan Klezmer octet, Isle of Klezbos also has cameos and 'Klezbonus' cuts featured on the eight-piece ensemble: "Traveling Show" (2007) includes Klezbos' Yinglish Latin groove take on 'Comes Love,' while "Mosaic Persuasion" (2001) gave the sister sextet's first audio exposure -- and won numerous awards and multiple Top Ten year-end listings.

Isle of Klezbos has also won recognition including three awards from The Fund for Creative Communities/New York State Council on the Arts, and two grants from the Sparkplug Foundation. The band hosts annual KlezBiGay Pride celebrations occur each June in New York City.