Tyler : I love Klezmer music, however I have a limited amount of stuff I've been able to find.

I dont know alot either but I can recommend some things that I appreciate :

Amsterdam Klezmer Band :

*De Vuurvreter Van Sassari
*Di Zilberne Chassene
*Five Weeks
*Kolomeika
*Limonchiki

Armenian Bratsch & Klezmer Band

Tarra's Freilach

Budapest Klezmer Band

*A Nakht In Gan Eydn
*Gasn Nigun
*Mazel Tov

Giora Feidman

Dancing with the Rabbi

Brandeis-Bardin Klezmer Ensemble

*Doina & Sirba
*Tribal Dance
* Araber Tanz & To Rinaki
*Yiddisher Tanz

Jewish Klezmer Conservatory Band

Rumania, Rumania

Jontef

Jeideidei

The Klezmatics

*Bulgar ala Klezmer
*Nokh an Anderer Alter Bulgar

Mazzeltone

Moldavian Hora

New Orleans Klezmer All Stars

Moroccan Roller

Spiel Klezmer Band

Turkish Dance

There are also 2 songs I like alot but I dont know who is singing them :

1) Im a Yiddish woman (I believe it's from Hungaria)
2) Ot Azoy

To me the appreciation of Klezmer falls between my apprectiation for Eastern-European folklore in general and ska , relating more to 2-tone and modern ska .

Those who love Klezmer should alos check out the band S.K.Å.L. (http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/145/skl.html)
from Dresden , they are a ska-jazz band with some heavy klezmer influence , the following songs I like most :

*Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
*La Dance Jaune
*Le Chaim

Going further into ska-music a remarkable musician from NYC , his name is King Django (http://www.kingdjango.com/) and he released an album full of Jewish traditional music in ma ska-crossover . Roots & Culture (http://www.stubbornrecords.com/images/covers/TCR-3007.gif)

My favorite songs are :

*Heveinu Shalom Aleichem
*Nakht Shifl Ken Kayro
*Ya'aseh Shalom
*Ska Mitzva

Check it out

Alicia Svigals (http://www.aliciasvigals.com/), of The Klezmatics, has released an excellent album called Fidl.

Thus for a limited time only, see the following link to download an .m4a file of Svigals' recording of "Romanian Fantasy No. 3":

- http://homepage.mac.com/bdhilling/FileSharing7.html

Svigals also borrows some of Dave Tarras' tunes. I've found that some Tarras selections, including his own take on "Romanian Fantasy", are available via the Apple Music Store.

I'm tempted to include Stens-Hoel's "Ugros" from Boiled in Lead's Songs from The Gypsy, but that's more Romanian and less klezmer than Svigals' adaptation of Solinsky's klezmer version of a Romanian tune ....,

Oh, from the liner notes on "Romanian Fantasy No. 3" by Svigals:

". . . this tune is based on a Warsaw recording by the Polish klezmer fiddler Josef Solinsky. The tune is a klezmer version of a famous Nihavent longa from Istanbul, itself based on Romanian lautar dance music. The longa genre became popular in Istanbul toward the end of the nineteenth century, replacing the earlier fashion for the Greek syrto. Solinsky probably learned that the tune from of one of the kapeyles of Moldavian klezmorim which frequently toured in Istanbul all through the nineteenth century. The Turkish version was recorded by Udi Hrant in New York. Svigallis, fiddle; Joshua Horowitz, tsimbl.""

Sounds great , so I got that file , but not working :(

How am I gonna make it work without a mac ?

Nevermind found it elsewhere .

"Hell Froze Over", or so Apple explained. - http://www.apple.com/itunes/

iTunes is available for Windows, at least.

And I'll ask my brother what he was using; he has a Windows-based player that runs m4a's. I just don't know which one it is.

I don't know about UNIX/Linux players.