- country:USA
- style(s):Jewish, Klezmer
- label:different labels
- type:Band, Composer/Songwriter
- gender:male
- instrumentation:instrumental
- artist posted by:AsiaNetwork
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Soulful, virtuosic and joyful to listen to, Shirim is the ultimate klezmer concert experience. With a top-selling crossover klezmer/classical recording, Klezmer Nutcracker, Shirim has performed internationally, captivating a diverse audience with its rocking renditions of classic klezmer music and ingenious arrangements of klezmerized Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Satie. The band was featured on the soundtrack of Woody Allen's. Their ltst work is recently released at Tzadik. It is a klezmerised version of Tchaikovsky's Peter and the Wolf, narrated and written by Maurice Sendak (Where the wild thibgs life), one if the worlds leading author for children books.