
featuring Lunasa & Les Chauds Lapins
Monday, Jan 09, 2012 8:00 PM EST (6:00 PM Doors)
Highline Ballroom, New York, NY
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Full dinner menu available
General Admission Seating
First come, first seated
$10 min. per person at tables
All ages
THE KLEZMATICS
The Klezmatics are globally renowned world music superstars - and the only klezmer band to win a Grammy Award. The group emerged out of the vibrant cultural scene of New York City’s East Village in 1986 playing klezmer music steeped in Eastern European Jewish tradition and spirituality, while incorporating both contemporary themes such as human rights and anti-fundamentalism and eclectic musical influences, including Arab, African, Latin, and Balkan rhythms, jazz, and punk. In the course of 25 years and more than nine albums, they have stubbornly continued making music that is wild, mystical, provocative, reflective, and ecstatically danceable. In 2011, the group marked its 25th year with its latest release, Live at Town Hall.
LUNASA
Named for an ancient Celtic harvest festival in honor of the Irish god Lugh, patron of the arts, Lúnasa is internationally acknowledged as being the finest traditional Irish instrumental band of recent times. Its members have helped form the backbone of some of the greatest Irish groups of the decade. The band's self-titled 1997 debut became an immediate bestseller in Ireland, and since its release the group has become one of the most sought-after bands on the international Celtic music scene. Lúnasa has won many awards, including a nomination for Folk Album of the Year in the BBC Radio 2 Awards and an award for Best Traditional Album of 2005 in Irish Music Magazine. The group's most recent release, Lá Nua, came out in 2010.
LES CHAUDS LAPINS
Les Chauds Lapins (“The Hot Rabbits”), led by New York’s Kurt Hoffman and Meg Reichardt, specialize in a repertoire of French swing from the 1920s through the '40s. The group has re-arranged long-forgotten French classics for banjo-ukes, string trio, guitar, and winds, mixing the roots of early American jazz with the lushness of a Bernard Hermann film soundtrack. The group's name refers to lust-filled animals intent on seeking - and finding - pleasure. Amourettes (2011), Les Chauds Lapins' second and most recent album, is the result of that quest for pleasure. In the band's words, the songs on the album are "the pinnacle of a flippant, fantastical, infectious songwriting tradition that [has] blossomed in the theaters, cabarets, and music halls of France."


