Kesselgarden will perform at the Northwest Folklife Festival on
5/24/09 at 4 pm on the Alki Court Stage. Come and see us!
Listen to our performance at the Big Jewish Show on 5/26/08:
http://www.nwfolklifeaudio.org/2008Festival/monday08.html
Visit CDBaby and hear two minutes from each track of our new CD.
Contact us at shutoff@earthlink.net & lcandres@earthlink.net
Call Carl at 206-523-2271 or Laurie at 206-784-3477
See Kesselgarden Live! at the 2007 Northwest Folklife Festival on YouTube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JUt1FImfbPk
and watch an excerpt of our CD Release event:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RxbASbtKgEk
Reviews
They play with feeling and grace...
author: The Jewish Week - George Robinson
****1/2 Readers of a certain age may recognize the title of this spirited duet recording as a Yiddishized pronunciation of Castle Garden, located on the southern tip of Manhattan, where immigrants were processed upon their arrival in the Goldene Medina. Andres, who plays accordion, and Shutoff, a clarinetist, evoke the turn-of-the-century period with a deftly played album of well-chosen tunes from the period. They draw heavily on “International Hebrew Wedding Music,” a 1916 portfolio of tunes, and as a result have found some delightfully unfamiliar material. More important, they play with feeling and grace.
This is a landmark Klezmer CD!
author: J.G.Wisnia
***** This is the very best Klezmer music that I have come across in many years! Kesselgarden is a landmark CD, performed by two superb musicians. A brilliant variety of musical selections are artistically and heartfully interpreted for clarinet and accordian. Kesselgarden deserves to be listened to over and over again.
Breathtakingly performed music of joy and sadness
author: J. Undank
***** This is Klezmer music played with superb craftsmanship and feeling. The arrangements for clarinet and accordion are magnificent, lively and overwhelmingly original. Dances, Shers, Khosidls, Kolomeykes, Horas, Bulgars, and--hold your breath--astonishingly lovely waltzes come in for breathtaking interpretations, lovingly performed. One doesn't have to be a musician to appreciate the beauty and nuances of the music--clearly born of happy and sad moments in Europe and the United States in the early century. What a pleasure to listen to! Bravo to Carl Shutoff and Laurie Andres, who bring all this triumphantly to us!
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