Event

Andy Statman Trio live at CKI

"There are those who know Andy Statman as the virtuoso klezmer clarinetist - violinist Itzhak Perlman, for instance, who chose Statman to lead his klezmer album. There are those who know Andy Statman as the down-home mandolin player with a stack of straight-up bluegrass albums to his credit. In Statman's versatile hands is a music that's full of surprises, sophisticated and completely accessible at once."
The New York Daily News

"One of the most influential musicians in modern acoustic music ... He helped invent the language of progressive bluegrass [and] went on to rediscover klezmer music and reintroduce it to the world."
The Rocky Mountain News

" ... One of the most important Jewish creative artists of the postwar era."
The Jerusalem Post
"One of the greatest mandolinists of this - or any - era ... He thinks at the speed of light and can play whatever he thinks of. As an improviser, he is fearless, and his musical vocabulary has no limitations." Chicago Tribune

"A master of two idioms linked only by their demand for virtuosity and their down-home origins ... " - The New York Times