Seth Kibel & The Kleztet in concert at Hill Center DC
Schedule
Sun Mar 29 2026 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Hill Center | Washington, DC
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Seth Kibel & The Kleztet will entertain and delight with a program focused on upbeat klezmer music (Eastern-European Jewish folk music) along with some detours into Yiddish folk song, jazz, swing, and the Great American Songbook. Think the Brothers Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and more! Seth and his band will have your toes a-tappin’ and make you want to dance in the aisles. Historical commentary (some of which might actually be true) and humorous anecdotes from Kibel will provide an insightful context for their selections.
Klezmer, which literally means “tool of song” in Yiddish, is the secular folk music of the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. In the first decades of the 1900s, this music flourished not only in the Old World but also in the New, in the immigrant community of New York City. There, the sounds of the European “fiddler on the roof” mixed with the sounds of early jazz and Tin Pan Alley. The result was a quintessentially American sound.
Seth Kibel -- clarinet, flute, saxophone
Sean Lane -- piano
Derek Wiegmann -- double bass
Joey Antico -- drums
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Hill Center, 921 Pennsylvania Ave SE,Washington D.C., Washington, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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