Anna K. & die Hawaras blend klezmer, jazz, Ukrainian soundscapes, and contemporary Vienna into an open musical dialogue. As part of the Spot on Yiddish Divas series, the Yiddish Culture Festival Vienna presents an evening of concerts between Jewish tradition, Eastern European folk music, and improvisational freedom. Singer and saxophonist Anna Kypiatkova was born in southern Ukraine to a Jewish family where music was an integral part of everyday life. Yiddish songs, klezmer melodies, and the emotional power of this music shaped her from an early age. She later studied at the Jazz Institute of the Kyiv National Academy of Music and developed her own musical language between jazz, klezmer, and improvised music. Together with die Hawaras, they create a program that understands klezmer as living and evolving music: rooted in Eastern European Jewish tradition while remaining open to Balkan rhythms, dance music, and contemporary influences. Familiar repertoire meets new arrangements, spontaneous improvisations, and deliberately immediate, raw energy. On stage, displaced Ukrainian musicians encounter colleagues living in Vienna. This creates not an abstract statement about integration, but an artistically lived dialogue: passionate, virtuosic, melancholic, danceable, and free. The evening becomes a musical meeting space: between tradition and present, between Jewish memory and Ukrainian experience, between personal history and shared future. Anna Kypiatkova – vocals, saxophone; Marton Papp – clarinet; Nikolaus Zierotin – violin; Richard Seniow – accordion; Dmytro Kovalenko – guitar; Marko Ferlan – double bass https://www.diehawaras.com/
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