2020 Is a very special year in Dutch history. It will be 75 years ago that Holland is liberated from Nazi occupation during the shoah (WWII). The Klezmer Society (Shtetl Band Amsterdam) will be  involved very actively in telling this…

SHURA LIPOVSKY EN THE KLEZMER SOCIETY, 13 juli 2019 Binnendieze

Wat gebeurt er als de grand dame van het Jiddische lied Shura Lipovsky de krachten bundelt met Nederlands eigen village klezmer band The Klezmer Society? Luister naar een gloednieuw programma…

We are in the middle of our preparations for the next cultural season. New tunes, new suites, new pieces and even new instruments! We are kicking off with a great klezmerish september-month, including a concert in the awesome Noorderk…

Merry Nights is one of our new programs for next season. Our first 'premiere' will be our newyears concert in Pulchri, at the 8th of January 2019, in The Hague. Have you seen our new trailer yet?

We are in the midst of our rehearsals for our new school theatre performance Wie niet weg is wordt Gezien. The story is based on Ida Vos' first novel of the same name. This time we tell the story from…

As you may have noticed already on this site, we changed our name from Shtetl Band Amsterdam to The Klezmer Society. We picked a more open and clear name, a name which is more suitable for who and what we…

Gister gespeeld bij uitreiking Prins Bernhard Cultuurfondsprijs 2017 voor de geweldige filmmaakster Heddy Honigmann.  Het was een prachtige gebeurtenis! Jammer dat we volgens het protocol niet mogen schrijven dat Hare Majesteit alle leden van Shtetl Band Amsterdam persoonlijk heeft bedankt…

​We had a great time last thursday playing in Epe (NL). The audience and the cows reacted strongly. Photo's: Louw Visser

Onze accordeoniste Erica Roozendaal trad samen met o.a. zangeres Shura Lipovsky op. Het terugluisteren van dit programma is zeer de moeite waard!