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Elie Rosenblatt & Pete Rushefsky are two of the leading performers of klezmer music?s next generation. Their new CD, entitled Tsimbl un Fidl: Klezmer Music for Hammered Dulcimer & Violin, is rooted in the earliest recordings of Jewish klezmer music from the first decades of the twentieth century. Changing musical tastes and recording technology paved the way for clarinets and jazzy brass bands to dominate American klezmer music. However, the pairing of tsimbl (hammered dulcimer) and fidl (fiddle or violin) formed the nucleus of the older, folkier European klezmer style. Alternatively mournful and raucous, Rosenblatt & Rushefsky provide the perfect soundtrack for your neighborhood Polish tavern or village dance.