Klezmer Still Lives in Ukraine

Konsonans Retro is a family brass band from Ukraine that performs klezmer music in the secular tradition of the once-thriving Odessa Jewish community.
Klezmer music is functionally the instrumental music of Eastern and Central Europe’s Ashkenazic Jews, but in essence, since the Nazis obliterated Eastern and Central Europe’s Jewish population in the Holocaust, it has become much more. Today, musicians who play klezmer are not only embracing one of the world’s most inspiring bittersweet musical styles, but with each performance they’re also rebuilding lost Jewish culture, striking a note by note blow against the Nazis who tried to wipe it from the face of the earth. Enjoy this video of Konsonans Retro keeping klezmer history alive.

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