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Chicago's own Maxwell Street Klezmer Band plays Crazy Dreidel
Chicago's own Maxwell Street Klezmer Band plays Ach! Odessa
Chicago's own Maxwell Street Klezmer Band plays Yoshke
Chicago's own Maxwell Street Klezmer Band plays Compote
Chicago's own Maxwell Street Klezmer Band plays Heyser Bulgar
Chicago's own Maxwell Street Klezmer Band plays Sammy's Freilach
Chicago's own Maxwell Street Klezmer Band plays Shine
Men and women may not dance together, unless there's a tichl! Featuring Dancin' Steve Weintraub and Kimber Leigh Nussbaum.
Don and Alex do battle in The Galitzianer vs. The Litvak.
Ivo, donning Ziggy Elman's cap, is featured in Benny Goodman's And the Angels Sing. (The tune with the Klezmer surprise in the middle!)
Alex manages not to burn his strings as he blazes through The Lark.
Kimber and Lori have fun on stage while singing the Ladino Hannukah tune, Ocho Kadelikas.
In addition to being a premier klezmer violinist, Alex shows off his vocal skills as he croons through the Russian ballad, The Weary Sun.
Ben Fried, member of Maxwell Street's Junior Klezmer Orchestra since age 8, performs the piece (by Alan Bern) that opens Yitzhak Perlman's CD, "In The Fiddler's House," Reb Yitzhak's Nigun.