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"This is a belated but very sincere thank-you to you and the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band for making Daniel and Marta's wedding one of the highlights of our lives! We were just blown away--and the guests are still talking months later about how great the band was.
In the first place--of course--you guys are just SO GOOD. It was wonderful just to listen to you--and impossible not to get up and dance. Many people--including me--hardly ate their dinner, because every time they tried to sit down, there was another tune that they just had to dance to. My friend told me that when you played your first song, he was heading to the dance floor with his wife, and she protested that "It's not proper to start dancing before the wedding couple. But he said "Forget that--with this music, we've got to dance!"
But I think the most wonderful thing about the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band is how perceptive you are. You are able to fit the music to the physical space and to the group. It's not every band that can do that-- And that's how you created the moment that will live forever in all of our minds. When you listened to the toast the Best Man was making, heard him talk about playing "City of New Orleans," set it up with the band members, and then at the first opportunity--hit it! What a moment! Did you know that, in our family, we sing a lot--and if we have one favorite song, it's "City of New Orleans." So--to have you pick up on that--to get to dance to it--AND to have Danny get up and sing with you--what a peak experience!
So, thanks, Lori, from the bottom of my heart."
- Becky, Mother of the Groom
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