MOSTLY KOSHER: Klezmer Band

Mostly Kosher brings a unique immersive cultural experience that lays the drawbridge down, invites the listener in to share a few l’chaims and then sends them home with a goodie bag of melodies, memories and the desire to hora through the night. The set includes reconstructed Klezmer and Yiddish music, the cultural expressions of Jewish people crossed with Rock, Latin, Jazz and Folk. In response to the poetry and folk music of Judaic roots, the show includes original repertoire resounding with themes of social justice, human dignity and mutual understanding.

Led by frontman 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, accordionist Gee Rabe, trombonist Taylor Covey and Aníbal Seminario on clarinet and sax. Mostly Kosher is a fixture at renowned Southern California stages such as the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, Skirball Cultural Center, Torrance Center for the Arts and Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center. They have also graced the stage of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for a live television broadcast to over half a million viewers. Mostly Kosher has the honor of being the first Jewish music ensemble to perform at Disney’s California Adventure.