Candlelight Concert: Amsterdam Klezmer Band
Live concert among hundreds of burning candles
Location: Portuguese Synagogue
Time: 7.30pm - 8.30pm (doors open at 7.00pm)
Hundreds of burning candles and the wonderful acoustics in the Portuguese Synagogue set the stage for unique evening concerts. The ensemble around Swiss violinist Marc Crofts plays klezmer supplemented with folk music as diverse as the origins of the musicians. Over the past thirty years, the Amsterdam Klezmer Band has studied, inverted, combed through, and reinvented klezmer music.
On March 19th, the Amsterdam Klezmer Band proudly presents its new album, Diaspora, at the Portuguese Synagogue. The album, which will be released worldwide on March 20th, was recorded in a single day in November 2025, shortly after a theater tour of the same name in the Netherlands. Diaspora's repertoire consists of traditional klezmer, as it sounded 100 years ago in the shtetls of Eastern Europe. The band complements this with its own unique approach, presenting powerful new klezmer music in Amsterdam in 2026.
Amsterdam Klezmer Band:
Janfie Van Strien - clarinet
Job Chajes - alto saxophone
Joop Van Der Linden - trombone
Ellen Van Vliet - accordion
Jasper De Beer - double bass
Mischa Porte - drums/percussion
Admission: € 22,00
This concert is part of the public programme for the exhibition 'Mokum, the biography of Jewish Amsterdam', running until April 6th at De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam
