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| Chris Haigh | ||
Chris Haigh is a London-based fiddle player who specialises in Klezmer, gypsy and East European styles. He plays with a trio, Klezmania, doing lots of Jewish weddings and Bar Mitzvahs; this band does a mixture of traditional Klezmer and Israeli tunes along with some jazz improvisation. Tziganarama is Chris's own trio, playing a wide range of Jewish, Russian, Balkan and gypsy music, whilst The Kremlinaires is Chris's wacky 7-piece Soviet Swing band. He first learned East European music whilst playing with Valodya Asriev at Zamoyski, a Polish restaurant in Hampstead. He has a large repertoire of Polish tunes. Chris sometimes plays solo or as a duo with accordion, going "around the tables" at a dinner. He gives workshops on klezmer fiddle style, (demonstrating techniques and ornamentation, describing the different tunes types and scales used in klezmer), and Polish fiddle (demonstrating the different types of traditional fiddle tune). He writes original klezmer melodies; his tune "Klezmania" was used on a worldwide TV ad for Nike! Visit Chris at his Fiddling Around The World website |
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