Golem

Artist Description

"This is not your father's klezmer band. Unless, of course, your father was Sid Vicious."  -Jewish Week.

Golem, New York's premiere klezmer-rock band and winner of the 2005 Jewish Music Award for Best Jewish Punk Band, takes the music of its Jewish grandparents and carries it, spinning and shouting, into the 21st century.

"Jewish and Eastern European ­ethnic-based music has become one of the decade's unlikeliest and liveliest strains of indie-rock. Much closer to the raucous gypsy-wedding reels of Gogol Bordello than the orchestral serenity of DeVotchKa, New York's Golem is one of the fastest-­rising new stars of this burgeoning movement. Founded by singer/accordionist Annette Ezekiel in 2001, Golem bills itself as "where Eastern Europe meets the Lower East Side," and the six-piece deliver on that promise with equal parts frenetic Old World melodies and downtown attitude. Even if your knowledge of klezmer begins and ends with Fiddler on the Roof and Hava Nagila, Golem is guaranteed to have you kicking up your heels to the zemer atik, yaysh and mayim mayim in no time."  - The Houston Press