• Metropolitan Klezmer -- Special Mother's Day Klezmer Brunch
• 10:00am

A great new tradition!

Every Sunday Morning, combining live music and food in a fresh, cultural environment, City Winery’s Klezmer brunch series pairs some of the greatest musicians in the world with delicious lox, bagels and other tasty fare on our brunch menu on Sunday mornings from 11am to 2pm.

Ticket is a $10 cover for live music and does not include food or drink. Children 13 and under are free for the music. We have a full brunch menu available featuring a wide range of delicious fare. We'll also be serving Azalea Blush, a delightful strawberry hued sparkling wine cocktail.

Metropolitan Klezmer returns with a ferociously entertaining neo-traditional octet, for a special Mothers Day Klezmer Brunch. Named "one of the finest American klezmer bands" by the UK's Songlines Magazine, with repertoire from rollicking dance to ethereal trance to steamy Yiddish swing and tango, plus genre-defying original grooves, even klezmer cumbia.

Special septet lineup for Mother's Day, plus surprise guests:

DEBRA KREISBERG, clarinet & sax
PAM FLEMING, trumpet & flugelhorn
MICHAEL HESS, violin & nai flutes
DAVE HOFSTRA, bass & tuba
MELISSA FOGARTY, vocals
EVE SICULAR, drums
PATRICK FARRELL, guest accordion & piano

Metropolitan Klezmer performs fresh repertoire and beloved favorites for May 9th Mother's Day brunch, including band premieres of Lower East Side ballads hardly heard since 1911, juxtaposed with irresistible 21st century genre-blenders such as the ever-popular klezmer cumbia -- as well as rollicking dance, ethereal trance, and Yiddish swing & tango.

Metropolitan Klezmer, now in the group's sixteenth year together, includes musicians with backgrounds from Albanian to Zydeco who also perform with the likes of  Rufus Wainwright, Opera Omnia, Sounds of Taraab, Hazmat Modine, Los Mas Valientes, Elliott Sharp, Black Rock Coalition Orchestra, Robin Holcomb, Burning Spear, and Isle of Klezbos. An octet in all, the band was formed in 1994 and has released four CDs: "Yiddish for Travelers," "Mosaic Persuasion," "Surprising Finds," and "Traveling Show." Metropolitan Klezmer's music has been heard on CNN, Public Radio International, and HBO, as well as in soundscapes from London's Royal Ballet at Covent Garden to SITI Co. theater productions nationwide. Their recent Florida debut tour included back-to-back full houses for Miami octet concerts, and shows later this year are to include Philadelphia, Washington DC area, and Lincoln Center.

Thanks!
Happy Mother's Day from Metropolitan Klezmer.