ce of several thousand."} 60:{"position":4,"content":"I’d prepared a 20-minute show and there I was, having to play to this huge crowd for a full hour.”"} 61:{"position":5,"content":"There was also the notinsignificant matter of being a musician short. “My drummer was short-sighted, and he missed the turning to festival location.”"} 62:{"position":6,"content":"Shiloah says that some sort of collective or genetic memory came to his rescue. “I can play lots of klezmer works, and I don’t even know where I heard them."} 63:{"position":7,"content":"On one side, my grandparents came from the region of Kishinev in Moldova, and I must have heard klezmer there. I also heard a lot of hassidic music, even before I became religious. That ability, just to take the violin and play klezmer music, saved me that first evening at the festival seven years ago.”"} 65:T523,

The program of the Klezmer Festival, now in its 24th year, has stretched exponentially over the years and now embraces an ever-widening genre hinterland. Next week’s lineup in the Galilee includes many of the usual suspects – the likes of hassidicrock fusion multi-instrumentalist Aharon Razael, ethnic flutist and clarinetist Eyal Sela, rock-spawned hassidic music vocalist-guitarist Adi Ran, renowned klezmer clarinetist Hanan Ba

Klezmer combo

The program of the Klezmer Festival, now in its 24th year, embraces an ever-widening genre hinterland