Brave Old World
Brave Old World is an American and German klezmer band. It formed in 1989.
Members hail from the US and Germany. The Washington Post called Brave Old World "the revival's first supergroup. Every player is a virtuoso.”
In 1992, the group won first prize at the International Klezmer Festival in Safed, Israel. Clarinetist Joel Rubin was a founding member.
The final members were:
The group's albums include
- Klezmer Music Beyond the Pale
- Blood Oranges
- Bless the Fire
- Dus Gezang Fin Geto Lodzh / Song of the Lodz Ghetto
- Hoffman's Doina was released as a single.
A DVD "Brave Old World--Live In Concert" was released in 2006.