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           |  Band History The Maxwell Street marketplace was to Chicago what the Lower East Side was to New York. At the turn of the century, when the first major wave of Russian Jewish immigrants settled in America, Chicago's Maxwell Street became famous for its open-air Sunday marketplace crowded with Jewish pushcart-peddlers - an institution which has survived in the hands of fresh waves of immigration. The band was named in tribute to the spirit of Chicago's early immigrants.  The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band, founded in 1983, brings a kaleidoscope of colors and moods and an old-fashioned spirit of fun to their performance of traditional Jewish music. The combination of dance music, folk songs, theatre medleys and jazzy Yiddish pop music from the 1930's to the 1950's creates a rich, multi-dimensional experience of the lost world of Eastern European Jewish culture, combined with vignettes of America as seen through immigrant eyes. Audiences of all backgrounds are delighted by Maxwell Street's high-energy performances that glow with warmth and humor. Our Performances have been staged across America and Europe. In 1998, 2000, 2001, and 2002, the band performed concerts across Europe including in Germany, London, Munich, Vienna, Amsterdam, Enschede and The Hague. In 1998, the band gave their debut performance at Carnegie Hall and at New York's Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center. Maxwell Street has appeared on the PBS programme "World Stage Chicago" in 1995, and was featured again on Public Television's "Artbeat Chicago" in March 1999. One of their songs was featured in an episode of ABC's "Saving Grace." Maxwell Street has been featured annually on Network Chicago's (PBS) "Do It Yourself Hanukkah" television special. In 2004, Maxwell Street's 2002 CD "Old Roots, New World" was voted "Best Jewish/Hebrew/Klezmer Album" by the indie Just Plain Folks 2004 music awards. Our Recordings 
2002 Old Roots, New World (Shanachie Entertainment) 2000 Sweet Early Years (Klezmer Music Foundation, Inc.) 1997 The MATZOrena (cassette single) (KlezDance Productions) 1996 You Should Be So Lucky! (Shanachie Entertainment) 1994 The European recording Jiddisches Lied & Klezmer 4th Internationales Festival 1986 Maxwell St. Days (Global Village Music) Radio & TV Highlights 2002 Music for soundtrack: ABC Network Television: State of Grace 2001 1-Hour Special: Do It Yourself Hanukkah, WTTW Public Television 2000 Live concert filming: Wild Chicago, WTTW Public Television 1999 1/2 hour special: Artbeat Chicago, WTTW Public Television 1996 Two interviews w/live music on Aaron Freeman's Metropolis, WBEZ (NPR) 1995 World Stage Chicago, WTTW Public Television 1993 WGN/Ch. 9 TV, Chicago's Very Own 1984, '85 Interviews with music: The Studs Terkel Show, WFMT/FM Touring Highlights CLICK HERE FOR OUR FULL TOURING HISTORY. |  |
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