The gentlemen of Trombenik got fooled by klezmer music in 2001. Each of them came from a band practicing a completely different genre.

Beneath the guise of Trombenik, one can find a rocker, folklorist, medieval troubadour, alternative rhythm juggler shifting through various beats, folk enthusiast, funkyman, and ethno-waver.

Their colourful musical past defines the style and direction the band takes. Klezmer melodies (songs of Jewish musicians from Eastern Europe and America) from the 19th and 20th centuries are their foundation. And the boys saturate them with jazz, Balkan spirit, gypsy unbridledness, Latin rhythm, cover them with ethnoclene and load them with rock ammunition.

As klezmers they have stood before audiences in Prague, Moravia and abroad. They strut their stuff on the big stages of festivals and halls, and shrink on smaller club music scenes. They become a focal point of classical music programmes and sometimes they dance quite exuberantly at weddings and balls. Finally, from time to time they flirt with the muses in the theatre.

The band’s distinctive sound is provided by five instruments: clarinet, violin, banjo, double bass and drums. They sing in the English of immigrants from Europe and in Yiddish.