Nu Haven Kapelye / Dr. Caterwauls Cadre of Clairvoyant Claptraps

The Nu Haven Kapelye is Southern New England’s largest, sassiest, and saxiest Klezmer ensemble! Featuring a blend of big band and Klezmer traditions, the Kapelye plays joyous, foot-tapping, tuchus-shaking arrangements of Klezmer and Yiddish music from Eastern Europe and other locales. Whether this is your first or five hundredth time hearing Klezmer, each performance offers a unique slate of music that will have you dancing in the aisles, singing the classics, and shaking what your bubbe gave you! From the historical to the hysterical, the Kapelye will have you clapping and laughing, weeping and wondering, and embracing this timeless music.

Dr. Caterwaul’s Cadre of Clairvoyant Claptraps plays music from around the world and uses it as a launching pad for improvisations that never lose their sense of groove—whether it’s Colombian cumbias, Ethiopian jazz, Romanian horas, Argentinian tangos, or traditional music from the United States.

Based in New Haven, CT, the four-piece—Adam Matlock on accordion, keyboards, and vocals, Michael Paolucci on drums, Brian Slattery on fiddle, guitar, and vocals, and Mike Tepper on bass—has opened for Xenia Rubinos, the Lost Bayou Ramblers, and the Krar Collective (from Ethiopia). Apart from that, they have toured the country and ventured into Europe, performing everything from Appalachian fiddle to funk and reggae to experimental new music. Together, they have put on evenings of songs by Kurt Weill and Ennio Morricone and performed back-to-back sold-out sets of music from Twin Peaks. All along, they work up original material by Matlock under his own songwriting project, An Historic.

Always curious, and always ready to try new music, Dr. Caterwaul’s Cadre of Clairvoyant Claptraps moves from genre to genre with a style that’s all its own

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