The concert is the 2003-04 Craft Memorial Concert. Admission is free and open to the public.

The band is the latest project of Queens-based Leverett, and grew out of the success of her solo Cd “The Klezmer Clarinet.” The east meets west music fuses Appalachian and southern fiddle tunes by Bill Monroe with klezmer melodies from pre-war Russia and Eastern Europe, some newly discovered, for a unique sound that, according to the band, is “at once raw, funny, melancholic and foot-stomping.”

Bandleader Leverett is one of the foremost of the new generation of klezmer clarinetists. Classically trained at Indiana University School of Music, she was involved in avant-garde music when she first heard klezmer, the dynamic East European music traditionally played at Jewish weddings. Leverett was a founding member of the Klezmatics in 1985 and Mikveh in 1999. Her solo CD, "The Art of Klezmer Clarinet," was released in 2001.

Leverett tours nationally and has performed and taught traditional and original klezmer music at festivals and workshops around the world. In addition to founding and directing the Klezmer Mountain Boys, Margot Leverett collaborates with Udi Bar-David and the artists of Intercultural Journeys, a concert and cultural organization to promote intercultural dialogue. She also tours internationally with The New York Ragtime Orchestra.

The four Klezmer Mountain Boys are some of the top musicians in the bluegrass and klezmer genres. Marty Confurius has appeared with virtually all the top people in both bluegrass and klezmer music, including Vassar Clements, Bela Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Andy Statman, and klezmer legend Dave Tarras.

Guitarist Joe Selly has appeared with Phoebe Snow, Vassar Clements, Barbara Eden, Melissa Manchester and Tex Logan and toured nationally with the Lombardo Orchestra, has been featured on numerous recordings and is in demand as both performer and instructor in bluegrass, jazz and swing.

Kenny Kosek, fiddle, has appeared with Jerry Garcia, John Denver, James Taylor, David Byrne, and his own Angelwood bluegrass band. He appears on numerous recordings and is well known in Bluegrass, Irish, country western, and rock and roll violin.

Barry Mitterhoff, who plays mandolin and guitar, is a leading figure in bluegrass music as well as klezmer. He has played with Tony Trischka and Skyline, John Gorka, Jorma Kaukonen and Hazel Dickens. He has been a featured performer at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, the White House, the Library of Congress, and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival as well as bluegrass festivals across the country and Canada.

For more information, visit www.klezmermountainboys.com.