Balagan Box : klezmer bluegrass and the music scene

A radio broadcast from Radio Shalom hosted by Laurence Haziza

Balagan Box – November 2006, Radio Shalom (94,8)


In this broadcast, Laurence Haziza invites Margot Leverett, American clarinet player who mixes klezmer music with bluegrass, with her band Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys.
The second guest of the program, Claude Szwimer, co-founder of the music label JUMU, presents new disc releases of Jewish music and fusion, such as Shtetl Superstars, or Electric Gypsyland n°2.

Laurence Haziza is a journalist, press agent and artistic director of the festival photo-4.jpgJazz’n’klezmer. Every saturday evenings from 2006 to 2013, she hosted on radio Shalom the show Balagan Box, called later Balagan Music.

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