The Oxford Chabad Society has launched a Klezmer band made up of seven musicians, directed by St John’s graduate student Melissa Friedman.
The band consists of two violinists, a clarinettist, two guitarists, a cellist and a drummer.
They have a whole repertoire of traditional Klezmer and Jewish music and have already played at events hosting the former Chief Rabbi of Israel, Sir Nicholas Winton and other prominent personalities visiting Oxford.
The Klezmer band is part of the Oxford Klezmer Society that has 160 members and enthusiasts and stands out as one of largest amongst no less than fifty one other music societies in Oxford.
With music societies with names like ‘Are You Down With Zuby?’, ‘The Red Soul Brigade’ and ‘TopoftheOx’ to ‘Oxford Revelation Rock-Gospel Choir’ and ‘Pan Jam Jamaican Carnival’, why shouldn’t there also be a Klezmer band to play the hora and good old Jewish music at your Simcha.
With Oxford hosting one of the largest and liveliest music departments in the country, it explains the popularity of the Oxford Klezmer society as soon as it was launched.
If you would like the Oxford Klezmer band to play at your event or Simcha, please email [email protected].