Festo! Festo! is a monthly Klezmer, Balkan, and World music concert and community jam session. This month's guest band is Jacob's Ladder. The performance will be at Hebrew Educational Alliance. 

Jacob's Ladder is an internationally touring band pushing the boundaries of contemporary Jewish music and traditional American Roots music through Jewish communal singing and prayer. In melding these two musical worlds, they tell their story through Eastern European Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jewish traditions, but also through their American heritage and its influence on their unique musical style. Their early inspirations were drawn from a history of “Jewgrass” musicians from the 70s and 80s, while their more recent work taps into multiple different genres, including rock, gospel, and klezmer, packed with diverse and eclectic vocal and instrumental arrangements. With roots music as the bedrock of their expression and instrumentation, their melodies and songs are inspired by the likes of Shlomo Carlebach, Eitan Katz, Zusha, Moshav Band, and Joey Weisenberg and the Hadar Ensemble, to name a few. While all the core band members of Jacob’s Ladder are rooted in their own idiosyncratic musical styles and approaches, they joyfully approach the challenging process of weaving their stylistic differences into the fabric of new arrangements. Together, they strive to highlight each of their individual sources of inspiration into their ever-changing and evolving sound. At heart, Jacob's Ladder is comprised of bluegrass musicians, and they center themselves–and thus their new music—in its natural groove and language.  

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