Wednesday, December 20, 2017

"Mostly Kosher" Band Celebrates Chanukah at Disney California Adventure


If you happened to be visiting Disneyland in California last month, you would have seen Mostly Kosher, the Jewish entry in Disney's Festival of Holidays including Chanukah. If you're visiting Walt Disney World in Florida this month, you're likely to have seen them performing there too at Epcot Center.

Mostly Kosher, the acclaimed Post-Klezmer Indie band, radically reconstructs Judaic and American cultural musical roots through ravenous klezmer beats and arresting Yiddish refrains. Mostly Kosher is a musical feast that explodes into a global food-fight of Jazz, Latin, Rock, Hip Hop, and Folk. Led by Leeav Sofer, one of Jewish Journal’s "30 under 30" most accomplished professionals in the Los Angeles' Jewish diaspora, Mostly Kosher is comprised of some of the highest regarded Los Angeles musicians: violinist Janice Mautner Markham, drummer Eric Hagstrom, bassist Adam Levy, accordion/trumpet Mike Bolger, trombonist Mike King, and on guitar, Will Brahm.
Mostly Kosher is a fixture at renowned Los Angeles stages such as the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre and Skirball Cultural Center, while also having graced the stage of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for a live television broadcast to over half a million viewers. Most recently, Mostly Kosher had the honor of being the first Jewish music ensemble at the Disney parks and performed a 2 month residency at Disney California Adventure, featured in the Festival of Holidays. Mostly Kosher was credited for “stealing the Festival of Holidays Show” by the acclaimed Fresh Baked Disney podcast.
Enjoy!
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2 comments:

  1. is it me or are they pretty bad?????????? perhaps i am tainted. too much talking and not enough real music.
    we just went to a concert by the klezmatics and they were great. and we know the fabrangen fiddlers who are great. sorry to be negative. compared to the others, this is pretty weak..........better than nothing but............

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    1. This probably had the extra talking since it was tailored/scripted for an amusement park and ALOT of non-Jews were going to be introduced to the culture and music for the first time. If you've seen MostlyKosher's full shows at performing arts centers, they get wayyy more artsy and sophisticated in their musician. They also play music with more poignant themes and more integration with the cultural, traditional originals.

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