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Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band at the Lily Pad

Presented by Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band at Lily Pad

July 3, 2010

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In a village not too different from the one in which you stand and read this-RIGHT NOW!-where there are cows and goats and grains grow in the early morning light, Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band was born. First, it had four heads, eight wings, eight legs, and a trombone you could trip over if you weren't too careful. Now it has four heads, eight wings, eight legs, that very same trombone, and a big wooden upright bass, and if you look at the moon just right at the perfect time of the month and the evening, you can just about see them pulling a fiery chariot of klezmer across the sky. With a foundation of klezmer tradition, Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band combines various elements of Balkan, American folk, and jazz styles to create an entertaining, creative and danceable blend that is unique to this quartet. Jon, Kirsten, Nat, and Pete love to play klezmer in and around Boston, they love to hang out in the MBTA for the morning rush hour before work, and they love you. JON CANNON (Fiddle): Fiddler by day and Boston University mathematician-in-training by night, Jon Cannon's mind is steeped deeply in Gematria, the numerical-mystical tradition of the Jews. If you take the numerical values of the names of all of the bands he plays with -- including nautical rock bands Sharks Come Cruisin' and Three Sheets to the Wind, Yiddish/Brechtian trio The Saltwives, contra dance band Swim Down, world folk quartet Barnacle, gypsy-jazz group Gypsy Nights, and Slav-punk band Somerville Symphony Orkestar, just to name a few -- and compute their least common multiple in the traditional Babylonian base-60 number system... you probably have too much time on your hands. Jon certainly doesn't. KIRSTEN LAMB (Bass): Kirsten plays upright bass with just about anyone who will let her. When not playing bass, she spends a relatively high percentage of her time baking desserts for a vegan pizzeria and writing modal banjo tunes. When she was little, her favorite color was periwinkle, though currently it is most definitely green. She generally prefers cats over other alternatives for animal companionship. NAT SEELEN (Clarinet): Nat Seelen is six feet and one half inch tall. He has dark brown hair and dark brown eyes, and if he hasn't shaved yet this morning his face tends toward dark brown as well. This is not the case if he has shaved this morning, in which circumstance his face tends towards a lighter shade. Showering also affects this, and he showers each morning both to clean and to awaken. He plays clarinet and other things, and spends all of his money on books, as learning is to him what food is to most. He also eats food, and drinks klezmer. PETE FANELLI (Trombone): Pete Fanelli was born in Syracuse, went to school in Rochester and recently moved to Boston as part of a social experiment to see how long a person can last playing trombone without needing to join the circus. So far so good, but only time will tell. Pete enjoys playing any type of music where he can improvise. He also enjoy teaching others the joys of buzzing into a brass mouthpiece. Pete loves coffee, spaghetti, sandwiches and scheming up elaborate plans for self improvement and most likely not going through with them (such as increasing the number of pushups he does by 1 each day to build upper body strength. He has been stuck on 3 pushups for 5 months.)