DESCRIPTION:
In a special concert Shtetl Band Amsterdam and Orchestre Ismailia join together and perform Klezmer and Chaabi tunes from their own repertoires.

This melody, Dreylechs, is a new klezmer composition by Shtetl Band Amsterdam's bassist Gregor Schaefer.

Halfway the tune the four percussion players start a party!

Shtetl Band Amsterdam is a klezmer band from the Netherlands, playing old and new repertoire in the Village Klezmer style. Website http://www.sba-klezmer.com

Orchestre Ismailia, based in the Netherlands and Belgium, plays Chaabi folk music from Morocco. Website http://www.orchestre-ismailia.nl

The concert shown here took place at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam on 7 June 2009.