The San Francisco Klezmer Experience - available through Kelly Productions

The Vanguard of New Jewish Music

With modern sensibilities, virtuoso musicianship and a great sense of humor, the San Francisco Klezmer Experience performs New Jewish Music with daring, panache, and abandon. Featuring the effervescent Yiddish singer, Jeanette Lewicki, the SFKE's infectious blend of Bay-Area-roots-klezmer,Yiddish folk and art song, and improvisational jazz has made them one of the most exciting new bands in Yiddish music.

Founded by Davka violinist Daniel Hoffman in 1996, the SFKE boasts an all-star roster of the Bay Area's nationally recognized and innovative klezmer musicians, including clarinetist Sheldon Brown, tsimbalist Stuart Brotman, bassist Richard Saunders, trombonist Charlie Seavey, percussionist Kevin Mummey, and trumpeter/hazzan Stephen Saxon.

The SFKE has appeared at numerous international music festivals, with the San Francisco Symphony, and with the acclaimed Yiddish singer and conductor, Michael Tilson Thomas.

"The San Francisco Klezmer Experience, a newish group of young artists, presented a very special musical performance. The six-year-old organization swings and dazzles with sheer virtuosity, presenting "shocking" rhythmic changes and rich Bartokian dissonances at the drop of a yarmulke."
SF Classical Voice

"The hottest source for Klezmer"
San Francisco Chronicle

"Hoffman tweaks the secular party music of Ashkenazi Jewry and Yiddish theater with a dose of jazz improvisation."
Andrew Gilbert, San Jose Mercury News