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Poster:	benjammin420	Date:	October 18, 2005 12:01:43am
Forum:	etree	Subject:	Re: suggestions for archive.org 'eastern european' music?

Special Ed & the Shortbus is a stringband that plays a wide variety of styles...

http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?collection=etree&mode=mp3&cat=Special%20Ed%20and%20the%20Shortbus

On a handful songs, they're a straight out klezmer string band (they get some gigs as a jewish wedding band)... Poke around for songs like Der Muzinikal, Russian Rag & Axel F...

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Poster:	Tyler	Date:	October 18, 2005 02:11:36am
Forum:	etree	Subject:	Re: suggestions for archive.org 'eastern european' music?

ah, yes! that was the genre name I was looking for, Klezmer ... thanks for the suggestions everyone .. i'll definately poke around those suggestions. Thanks again, i'm off to listen to some klezmer tunes..

tyler

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Poster:	benjammin420	Date:	October 18, 2005 04:15:56am
Forum:	etree	Subject:	Re: suggestions for archive.org 'eastern european' music?

No problem...

Also - while they're not on the archive, you should check out the New Orleans Klezmer All Stars...

http://www.klezmers.com

Mostly clarinet driven though (while I like the solely string based variety)...