WORLD MUSIC - JEWISH

If you think all klezmer bands sound alike, you haven’t heard The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band! Formed by renowned trumpeter /composer David Buchbinder in 1987, The Flying Bulgars have toured Europe and and North America bringing their sophisticated arrangements and klezmer soul to the traditional repertoire. Using jazz, salsa, rock and folk idioms, The Flying Bulgars have become Canada’s most popular band, making annual appearances at the Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto before more than 50,000 fans!

series producer: Harold Hagopian

“There is a brilliance and lightness of touch in the brass and woods that blow hot and cold here; an invitational intrigue at the piano, spiky like a beckoning finger. Even in the loosest-seeming guttural trumpet rasps there is a swirl of colour and an echo of laughter. We are at the circus and the clowning when it occurs is subtle and effective....the run of performance is impressive” -- Folk Roots