GRAMMY Award-winning icons of contemporary klezmer, The Klezmatics have spent four decades redefining Yiddish music for a global audience. Founded in New York in 1986, the band has built an unmistakable sound rooted in Eastern European Jewish tradition while embracing folk, jazz, gospel, Latin and global music — earning international acclaim for adventurous musicianship, cultural openness and a deeply humanistic voice.
Their new album, We Were Made for These Times, brings that vision powerfully into the present, exploring immigration, exile, solidarity, resistance and hope through collaborations with an extraordinary circle of artists, including Joshua Nelson, Janis Siegel, Sofía Rei, James Brandon Lewis, William Parker, Enver İzmaylov, La Manga and the Lavender Light Gospel Choir.
Booking 2027–28: We Were Made for These Times • Best of 40+ Years • the GRAMMY-winning Woody Guthrie collaboration Wonder Wheel — 20th Anniversary • Happy Joyous Hanukkah. Select programs can be expanded with special guests, choirs and local collaborations.