Austin Klezmorim

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Austin Klezmorim is a klezmer music group founded in 1979 in Austin, Texas by trumpeter and composer Bill Averbach.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Recordings

Recordings are all self-published[1]

• Shalom Y'all 1979
• Texas Klez 1984
• East of Odessa 1992
• Bubba's Waltz 2005

[edit] Influence

The Austin Klezmorim have performed concerts and festivals throughout the Southwest as members of the Texas Commission on the Arts Touring Artist Roster. Their influence has played an important role in the development of Austin music's more eclectic music reputation as the first Klezmer band in Texas and the oldest Klezmer band in the Southwest.^{[citation needed]} Their music is an incorportion of the traditional Klezmer, Jazz, and indigenous Texas music. The focus of the group is one of combining the old and the new operating under the belief that the Klezmer style developed throughout Eastern Europe in this manner.^{[citation needed]}