Maxwell Street Klezmer Band Repertoire
Weddings, Bar/Bat Mitzvah Parties, and other Celebrations
Our song list is always being updated!
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Wedding, Bar/Bat Mitzvah and Other Celebration Clients: Please select up to 12 requests for your party.
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Choose individual song titles (like "Hava Nagila," "New York") or general category (like "Horas," "Frank Sinatra," "Dance Leading," "Contemporary.")
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Our repertoire includes much more than these songs listed below. We are also open to learning new songs for your special event!
1) Jewish Music
Yiddish / Klezmer
Example: Freylechs, Shereles; Yiddish Songs such as Abi Gezunt, Bei Mir Bistu Sheyn, Belz, Oyfn Pripetchok, Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen, Rumania, Sheyn vi di Levone, Tumbalalaika, Yiddishe Mama.
Requests can be played from the band's CDs.
Wedding Processional Song
Chorshat Ha-Eucalyptus
Dodi Li (traditional)
Dodi Li (Modern, by Cantor Steve Sher)
Erev Ba
Erev Shel Shoshanim
Iti Milvanon
Leah’s Saraband
Processional from Fiddler on the Roof
Sunrise, Sunset
Recessional
Siman Tov
Od Yishama
Chusn-Kalleh Mazl Tov
Jewish Wedding Dances
(Chusn Kalleh Mazl Tov, Keytzad M'radkin--Dance for Bride and Groom, Mezinke (Krenzel Tanz: "Crowning Dance for Parents of the Bride and Groom), Lomir Alle Ineinim (toasting song), Wedding Horas (Yasis Alayich, Od Yishama, Asher Boro, etc.)
Jewish Dances That We Play and/or Lead
Erev Ba
Hiney Ma Tov
Horas (Hava Nagila, Siman Tov, Hevenu Shalom Aleichem, etc.)
Hora Agadati
Hora Medura
Keytzad Mrakdin (dance for bride/groom; can be done at b-mitzvahs)
KLEZMER: Freilechs, Sherele, Shiffer's Tanz, Zhok, Serba, Bulgar, Terkisher, Chosidl)
Krenzel Tanz (Crowning Dance--Di Mezinke Oysgegebn--for weddings)
Ma Navu
Matzorena (The Jewish Macarena)
Mayim
Miserlou
Nigun Shel Yosi
Od Lo Ahavti Dai
Patch (clapping) Tanz
Salaam (Od Yavo Shalom)
Shiffers Tanz
Shmelkie’s Nigun
Turkish Kiss
Tzaddik Katamar
Tzena, Tzena
Yesh
Yoya
Zemer Atik
Zodiac
To engage your guests in these dances, consider adding a Designated Danceleader to your band. For B-mitzvah parties of 40+, 1-2 dance-leaders is recommended.
Other Hebrew/Israeli/Sephardic Songs
Adon Olam, Al Kol Eyle, Am Yisrael Chai, Bashana Haba'ah, Cuando El Rey Nimrod,
Keren Or (Noa), Lechi Lach (Debbie Friedman), Mishaela (Noa), Ocho Kandelikas,
Od Lo Ahavti Dai, Oseh Shalom, Scalerica de Oro, Salaam (Od Yavo), Tziyon, Yerushalayim Shel Zahav, etc.
Modern Chassidic & Line Dances
(Moshiach, Vay'Hi Vishurun, Ashrenu, Hatov, Y'varech'cha, Ki Lo Yitosh, Ashira, Mikimi, Ura, Emosai, V'Karev Pizureynu, Moashiach, Chazak, L'Binyamin Amar, Ki Oto, Carlebach's Lishono Habo'oh, etc.)
2) Secular Music
Weddings: Classical Processional and Background Music
Albeniz: Tango
J.S. Bach: Air from Suite #3
J.S. Bach: Air on the G String
Bizet: Habanera from Carmen
Debussy: Reverie
Elgar: Salut d'Amour, Op. 12
Glinka: Romance
Handel: Air from Water Music from Cantata #156
Kreisler: Liebeslied
Massenet: Meditation from Thais
Mendelssohn: On Wings of Song
Mozart: Allegro, Romanza or Menuetto from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Mozart: 2nd movement from Sonata in C major
Mozart: 1st movement from Sonata in A major
Pacabel: Canon in D
Rimsky-Korsakov: Theme from Scheherazade
Satie: Gynopedie No. 1 from Trois Gymnopedies
Tchaikovsky: Melody
Vivaldi: Allegro from The Four Seasons: Spring
Vivaldi: Largo from The Four Seasons: Winter
Most classical wedding standards are available upon request. String quartet repertoire available if two violins, cello and viola are included.
Jazz / Swing / Ballroom Dance / Broadway
(Some selections require a Jazz Vocalist to be included in the band)
Accentuate the Positive
All of Me
All The Things You Are
Almost Like Being in Love
Always
Am I Blue
And the Angels Sing
Anniversary Waltz
As Time Goes By
At Last
Begin the Beguine
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
Beyond the Sea
Blue Skies
Bye Bye Blackbird
Cantina Band (from Star Wars)
Cheek to Cheek
Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)
Day in and Day Out
Don't Be That Way
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Fiddler on the Roof Medley (instrumental)
Fly Me to the Moon
Frank Sinatra Tunes
Georgia On My Mind
Glenn Miller Medley
God Bless the Child (Billy Holiday)
Hello, Young Lovers
How High the Moon
I Get a Kick Out of You
I Love Paris
If I Were a Bell
In the Mood
It Don't Mean a Thing
It Had To Be You
It's Delovely
I've Got the World on a String
I've Got You Under My Skin
Jump, Jive & Wail
(A) Kiss To Build A Dream On
Let's Do it, Let's Fall in Love
Let's Face the Music and Dance
Let's Misbehave (Cole Porter)
L-O-V-E
(The) Man I Love
Memories of You
Mood Indigo
Moonlight Serenade
Moscow Nights
My Baby Just Cares For Me
My Funny Valentine
My One and Only Love
My Romance
New York, New York
Night and Day
Night Train
Orange-Colored Sky
Our Love Is Here To Stay
Puttin' on the Ritz
Save the Last Dance for Me (Buble)
Sentimental Journey
Sing Sing Sing
Skylark
So in Love
Someone to Watch Over Me
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Summertime
Sweet Home Chicago
Stomping at the Savoy
Sunny Side of the Street
Take the A-Train
That's A-Plenty (Dixieland)
They Can't Take That Away From Me
Time after Time
Tuxedo Junction
Unforgettable
(The) Very Thought of You
(The) Way You Look Tonight
What a Wonderful World
What’ll I Do?
When I Fall In Love
You Made Me Love You
You Do Something to Me
Classic Rock and Pop
(Rock Singer-Guitarist is necessary for this repertoire)
Across the Universe
All My Loving (Beatles)
Always on my Mind
And I Love Her
Back in The USSR
BEATLES SONGS
Born this Way (Lady Gaga)
Born to be Wild
Brown Eyed Girl
California Sun (Ramones)
Can't Buy Me Love
Can't Help Falling in Love (Elvis)
Change the World (Eric Clapton)
Could I Have this Dance (Anne Murray)
Dance Me to the End of Love
Dancin’ in The Street
Dancing Queen
Does Anyone Really Know What Time it Is?
Domino
Don't Know Why (Nora Jones)
Eight Days a Week
Fields of Gold (Sting, Eva Cassidy)
Fire and Rain (James Taylor)
Forever Young (Dylan)
Get Ready
Gimme Some Lovin'
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
God Only Knows (Beach Boys)
Good Lovin'
Hanky Panky
Have I Told You Lately (Rod Stewart)
Here Comes the Sun (Beatles)
Here, There and Everywhere (Beatles)
Ho Hey (Lumineers)
I Feel Fine (Beatles)
If I Fell (Beatles)
I'm a Believer (Monkees)
In My Life (Beatles)
I Saw Her Standing There (Beatles)
I've Just Seen a Face (Beatles)
I Want You Back (Jackson 5)
I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor)
Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry)
Jump Jive and Wail (Brian Setzer)
Jumpin' Jack Flash (Rolling Stones)
Lady in Red (Chris de Burgh)
Land of 1,000 Dances (Wilson Pickett)
Let's Twist Again
Long Tall Sally
Long Train Runnin' (Without Love)
Mama Mia (ABBA)
Michelle (Beatles)
Mony Mony
Moon Dance
Mustang Sally
Old Time Rock 'n Roll
One Love
Pretty Woman
Rainbow Connection
Rock Around the Clock
Saturday in the Park (Chicago)
Save the Last Dance for Me (M. Buble)
Shake, Rattle, & Roll
Shout
Smooth
Something
Sweet Caroline
Sweet Home Alabama
Sweet Home Chicago
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Taking Care of Business
That's All Right, Mama (Elvis)
Time of my Life
Those Were the Days
Twist Again
Twist and Shout
Unchained Melody
Under the Boardwalk
Venus
Walking on Sunshine
The Way I Am (Ingrid Michaelson)
We Are Family
What I like About You
Whole Lotta Shakin' (Jerry Lee Lewis)
Wonderful Tonight
Yesterday
You Really Got Me (The Kinks)
Your Song (James Taylor)
You've Got a Friend
Contemporary, Motown, Reggae, R & B
(Motown singers are necessary for most of these choices)
ABC
Ain’t Too Proud To Beg
All of Me (Legend)
Billy Jean
Boogie Shoes
Born this Way (Lady Gaga)
By Your Side (Sade)
Celebration
Could You Be Loved (Bob Marley)
Dancing in the Street
Dynamite (Taio Cruz)
Firework (Katy Perry)
Get Lucky, or
Get Latkes (Daft Punk, Yiddified!)
Happy (Pharrell Williams)
Heard it Through the Grapevine
Hold On
Ho Hey (The Lumineers)
Hot Hot Hot
I Can See Clearly Now
I Feel Good
I Gotta Feeling (Black Eyed Peas)
I Want You Back
I Will Always Love You
I Wish
Isn't She Lovely
Just the Way You Are (Bruno Mars)
Lean on Me
Let's Stay Together
Limbo Rock
Louie Louie
Macarena
(The) Magician (Fast Soca)
Marry You (Bruno Mars)
Midnight Hour
My Girl
My Cherie Amour
Never Get Back Together (Taylor Swift)
No Woman No Cry
One Love (Bob Marley)
Only Girl (Rhianna)
Play That Funky Music
Read My Mind (Killers)
R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Saint Thomas
Say Hey (I Love You) (Michael Franti)
Save the Last Dance (Buble)
Shout
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Sir Duke
Soul Man
Stand By Me
Sunny
Sunshine of My Life
Superstition
Three Little Birds
The Way I Am (Ingrid Michaelson)
True Colors (Cyndi Lauper)
Uptown Funk
We Are Family
For Bar/Bat Mitzvah Parties: Games and Dance Contests
Bottle Dance Contest from Fiddler on the Roof
Coke-Pepsi-7Up (Lox, Bagels, Cream Cheese)
Cotton-Eyed Joe
Hula Hoop Contest
Hula Hoop Hot Potato
Limbo Contest
Matzorena (The Jewish Macarena)
Musical Chairs
Partner Dance Competition
Adult-Kid Dance Contest
Red Light, Green Light
Snowball
Yesh Contest
Country and Western
City of New Orleans
Crazy
Margaritaville
Poor Pitiful Me (cowboy line dance)
Rocky Top
(The) Rose
Sweet Home Alabama
3) International and World Music
Sephardic (Judeo-Spanish)
Adio Querida
Cuando el Rey Nimrod
Hamavdil (French Algerian)
Los Bilbilicos
Scalerica d'Oro
Una Ora
Yigdal (Moroccan, Yoel Ben Shimon)
Latin, Salsa, Mambo
Ballroom Dances: Tango, Rhumba, Cha-Cha
Besame Mucho
Bambaleyo
Brazil
Cuban Pete
El Choclo (Kiss of Fire)
El Cumbanchero (Mambo)
Johnny’s Mambo
La Bamba
La Comparsita
Lambada
Mambo Caliente
Oye Como Va
Por Una Cabeza (Tango from Scent of a Woman)
Rio Rita (Paso Doble)
Sunny Ray (Salsa)
Sway
Tea for Two (Cha-Cha)
Tequila
Tico Tico
Watch What Happens
Watermelon
Wave
Russian Traditional Swing and Estrada; Gypsy
Ach, Eto Svadba (Oh, What a Wedding)
Ach! Odessa
Alexandra (waltz)
Czardas Monti (and other czardas's)
Joe Dassen Medley
Kozatzke (Russian Sailor's Dance)
Lark (Pacsirta)
Letka-Yenka
Liublu (I Love--tango)
Medley of Classic Russian Twists
Medley of Russian Foxtrots
Moskovskie Okna (Moscow Windows)
Nyeudachnoye Svidaniye (Unlucky Date)
Ochi Chorniye (Dark Eyes)
Odinokoye Garmon (Lonely Accordion)
Ostrov Nevezeniya (Island of Bad Luck)
Pesinka Izvoshika (Song of the Coachman)
Pensinka O Horoshem Nastroyenii (Song About a Great Mood)
Pesinka Pro Zayetzev (Song about Bunnies)
Podmoskovniye Vechera (Moscow Nights)
Pora V’Put-Dorogu (Time To Get Going)
Rio Rita
Russian-Jewish Wedding Medley
Sertze (My Heart)
Syem-Sorok: 7:40 (Russian Freylechs)
Usti Usti Baba (Macedonian Roma)
Utomlyoniye Solntze (Weary Sun--tango)
Valse "Boston"
V'Gorodskom Sadu (In The City Park)
Waves of “Amurr”
Irish, Scottish
(More on Request)
Danny Boy
Irish Washerwoman
Jigs and Reels
Mari's Wedding
My Wild Irish Rose
Over the Waterfall
Saint Anne's Reel
Star of the County Down
Swallow Tail Jig
The Parting Glass
Wearing of the Green
When Irish Eyes are Smiling
German & Viennese
(More on Request)
Strauss Waltzes (Vienna, City of My Dreams,
Beautiful Danube, Emperor)
Die Fledermaus (Waltz)
Indian, Bollywood
Dhoom 2 Theme Song (Dhoom Again)
The Vagabond
Greek, Balkan
Apo Tin Athena
Gankino
Miserlou
Kolos
Sylivrianos Syrtos
Syrtos
Treilo Hasapaserviko
Samiotisa
Italian
(More on Request)
Arrivaderci Roma
Come Back to Sorrento
Come Prima
Come Vo Re (A. Celentano)
Funiculi, Funicula
Italiana Pero
La Neopolitano
Non Dimenticar
O Sole Mio
Return to Me
Santa Lucia
Summertime in Venice
Soli (A Celentano)
Susanna (A. Celentano)
Tarantella
That's Amore
French
(More on Request)
Can Can
Joe Dassen melodies
La Vie En Rose
Pa-dam
Under Paris Skies (Sur le Ciel de Paris)
Polish
(More on Request)
Clarinet Polka
Krakowiak
Polkas and Mazurkas
Oginski: Polonaise
Sto Lat
Middle Eastern
Ali Dayi
Bahlam el Bik
Khatwit Habibi
Konyali
Longa Yorgo
Mashiach Hazaken (from Sallah)
Miserlou
Olgan Olglan
Samai Bayatti al Aryan
Uskadar
Salaam (Od Yavo)
With addition of Arabic Vocalist: Ghannili Shwaya, il Hil'wa Di, Sa'aloni el Nas, others
Iranian
Chera Nemee Rocksie
Hamme Chim Yar
Kasim Abadi
Knife Dance
Raksi Destmal (Handkerchief Dance)
Norwegian, Swedish
Av Langtan Till Dig
Fjallbruden (Waltz)
Jul (Waltz)
Nordlandsnetter (Waltz)
Skomvaer (Waltz)
Don’t see your favorite song here? We might be able to play it for you—just ask!
Maxwell Street Klezmer Band
(847) 675-4800