Kapelye

Led by multi-instrumentalist and ethnomusicologist Henry Sapoznik, Kapelye took a very serious approach to the traditional klezmer music of the Eastern European Jews. One of the first of the klezmer revival bands to record, Kapelye took a broad view of klezmer, mixing folk ballads, labor and political anthems as well as songs from the Yiddish Theater. Sapoznik was still a member of the string band called the Delaware Water Gap Band when he began to assemble the musicians to perform at a lecture of klezmer music at Temple Beth-El in Providence, Rhode Island in 1979. These mus...