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Galitsianer khasene (A Galician Wedding)

from Lebedik Yankel: Yiddish Songs from Warsaw Vol. 2 by Jane Peppler and friends

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A mocking yet affectionate description of a Jewish wedding in Galitzia: the groom is queasy and wants to go home, the klezmers are scraping away, the bride is not going to be able to ride her father like a horse any more, the crowd escorts the couple home and the shutters are closed…

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from Lebedik Yankel: Yiddish Songs from Warsaw Vol. 2, released September 12, 2013
Piano: Roger Lynn Spears
Vocal and fiddle: Jane Peppler

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Mappamundi Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Folk music band plays "More-or-less traditional music of the Northern Hemisphere and the Previous Millennium." Vocals, lots of instruments, specializing in Eastern European music (Balkan, Slavic, Russian, Polish); Jewish music in Yiddish, Hebrew and Ladino; Celtic, British Isles and early American / Colonial music. And swing. ... more

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