Concerts from around the country, recorded by Concertzender (World Music).
Registration of the klezmer trio ‘Sklamberg & the Shepherds’ who performed at the Jewish Cultural Centre MerkAz in Utrecht on 7 February 2019.
Lorin Sklamberg (USA), Polina and Merlin Shepherd (UK) are old acquaintances of the Concertzender. In the spring of 2018 Acoustic Roots was a guest at the Synagogue of Delft, where they performed.
On 7 February 2019 the klezmer trio ‘Sklamberg & the Shepherds’ performed in the Jewish Cultural Centre MerkAz in Utrecht.
In this episode of Concertzender Live and in the next hour of Acoustic Roots you will hear the registration of this concert, supplemented with parts and an interview which Karin van den Boogaert had with them in 2018.
‘Sklamberg & the Shepherds’ combine traditional and newly composed Yiddish and Russian singing with klezmer and south-Mediterranean music. Lorin, Polina and Merlin represent three nations, although their families originate from geographical locations which are in close vicinity of each other.
At the end of the 19th century Merlin’s great-grandparents emigrated from Ukraine and Romania to escape the pogroms and look for a better world in Europe. Lorin’s ancestors emigrated from a small town in the Ukraine to the United States. Polina’s grandparents escaped from the Shoah by fleeing from Kiev and Odessa to Siberia. Influenced by different cultures and maintaining the styles, they play original and traditional material with much liberty and spontaneity.
Sklamberg & the Shepherds live at MerkAz Utrecht Date: 07-02-2019
Tracklist:
01 Outreach
02 Gib a Kush
03 Hora – Soapbar
04 Sét Zayn azoy – So it shall be
05 Oyfn Yam veynt a Vintele
06 Fun vanen heybt zikh on a libe
07 Hopefulness – Khosidl
08 Romance
09 Main Harts
10 Sirba
Part 2 (in Acoustic Roots)
11 Mit halb Farmakhte Oygn
12 A gezang fun a traktorist
13 Di Bekhers nit vayn
14 Utushka – Little Duck
15 Kh’hob dem kheyshek
16 Sahar 1 – Just before Dawn 1
17 Sahar 2 – Just before Dawn 2
18 Ma noymar
For part 2 of Sklamberg & the Shepherds: read and listen here:
