Amsterdam Klezmer Band featuring Ferry Heijne

Muziek: Gijs Levelt

Tekst : Ferry Heijne

Background vocals: Roos Janssens

You can listen to the single via this link.

The past few years the demand for lessons and workshops of our band members has grown and from all over the world we regularly get the request if there exists sheet music of our songs. This is exactly what has inspired our latest project.

We are going to share our musical world with the public and to make that happen with have a request for you.

To make the Klezmer Academy happen we want to release a beautiful book consisting of the sheet music of our most popular songs. Together with its release we want to pair a website where the sheet music will also be available digitally, accompanied by play-along-tracks and tutorials, which will supplement the book.

To reach this goal some very important steps have to be made.

• The music has to be elegantly written out and produced.
• Our regular designer Martin Draax will make a beautiful cover and design for our book.
• A website will we be build by Peter Hordijk in which we can offer the AKB Academy in a cool and friendly environment. This is where the sheet music, play-along-tracks and helpful tutorials will appear digitally.
• We have to go into the studio to record the play-along-tracks!
• The book will consist of 96 pages with 13/14 songs in 4 different keys!

Any of you would understand that there are some necessary costs to be made to make this happen.

Fortunately, we have already received some of the necessary money through a partially awarded grant application that we made for this project. Sadly, to complete the budget required for our project we need another 6000 euros.
We don’t give up easily, which is why we turn towards you (modestly :-0) as lovers of music and fans of our band through this platform.
Help us realise the Amsterdam Klezmer Academy and get a cool reward in return!

Our goal is to have finished this project by the end of 2022!

Mazzel and Broge, we thank you kindly in advance
Alec, Gijs, Janfie, Jasper, Job, Joop en Theo

Read more via: https://www.voordekunst.nl/index.php/projecten/13560-amsterdam-klezmer-academy-1

You can now listen to our new single ‘Peeredies’ on your favourite streaming platform.

Click here to listen.

Amsterdam Klezmer Band featuring Laurens Joensen

music: Gijs Levelt

lyrics: Laurens Joensen

We are so happy to annouce our Matinee Show in Carré on January 2nd at 1:30pm!

Earlier this year we sold out the beautiful Royal Theater Carré with our anniversary show and it’s a honour to have the opportunity to play a second show here.

Get your tickets here!

‘Domnees Toene’ is now available to listen on YouTube! 

Official Release date: 10/02/2022

Bert Hadders: Lyrics and vocals

Gijs Levelt: composition

Wauw! Our show at Theater Carré is SOLD OUT. We can’t wait to see you all there.

Didn’t get tickets? You can still get tickets for our other shows. Click here

One of the first AKB albums ‘Mala Loka’ is now available on Spotify! Enjoy this album and share it with your friends.

Listen here

In October 2021 we will start our jubilee theatre tour ‘Di Zilberne Chassene (The Silver Wedding). We will performe with, among others, local heroes such as Ferry Heijne of De Kift, Gregor Engelen of Antwerp Gypsy Ska, Bert Hadders and Piter Wilkens from Groningen and Friesland and Laurens Joenssen from Zeeland.

Click here for tickets and info