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at the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
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We're an all-acoustic group.
"Once a group is rooted in a style,
the musicians can do anything with it.
It's like blues; once you're a blues
musician, you can do anything with
blues."
Kol Simcha, which translates from
Hebrew into "Voice of Joy," was
formed by instrumentalists who went
to school together. In a romantic vein,
they spent their first five years enter-
taining at weddings.
After being invited to do a concert,
they decided to move on to other con-
cert stages and eventually gave up the
ive Swiss musicians know
klezmer music can be very
romantic.
They write it that way.
They write it other ways, too.
The Kol Simcha quintet, whose
members perform only original music,
will play klezmer in many ways during
two appearances Friday, June 26, at
the Ann Arbor Summer Festival — a
free 11 a.m. lecture/demonstration at
the Rehearsal Hall of the Power
Center and an 8 p.m.
performance on the
main stage.
"Klezmer music
runs the whole range
of emotions," said
pianist Oliver Truan, a
magna cum laude grad-
uate of the Berklee
College of Music in
Boston.
"Just like the Jews,
it's assimilated into the
countries where it
stays. Klezmer in
America has jazz influ-
ences, and we play a
lot of that. In Spain,
there are Moorish
influences. In Greece,
the dominant, uneven
rhythms of the coun-
try's [native music]
have been adopted by
klezmer."
In their 11 years
Kol Simcha: From Carnegie Hall to the Power Center.
together, Kol Simcha
members consider
wedding circuit. Except for the bass
their most exciting performance — a
player, they all compose, an interest
mix of lively dances, poignant love
they pursue independently.
songs, exuberant folk melodies and
Their songs fill five CDs, two on an
melancholy ballads — to be last
American
label, World Class.
September's engagement at Carnegie
Voice
of
Joy was followed by Klezmer
Hall.
Soul, a compilation of slow tunes.
"I think we're the only klezmer
All the members extend their range
group that tries not to have conserva-
by performing with non-klezmer
tive klezmer in our performances,"
groups. For international tours, they
Truan said. "We try to have our own
address audiences using English,
voice and use slightly different instru-
German or French and express talents
ments with piano, bass and drums.