This article is about a band playing a type of music handed down from Ashkenazi Jews called Klezmer. For the main article on secular Jewish music, see Secular Jewish music. ]]The Klezmatics are a Grammy Award winning American neo-klezmer music group based in New York City, who have acheived fame singing in several languages, most notably mixing older Yiddish tunes with other types of more contemporary music of differing origins. Current members include composers Matt Darriau, wind instruments, and Frank London, on trumpet, Paul Morrissett playing bass and tsimbl cimbalom, vocalist Lorin Sklamberg on accordion, and Lisa Gutkin on violin.Past members include drummer David Licht, Alicia Svigals on violin, David Krakauer, Margot Leverett, and Kurt Bjorling on the clarinet. Frequent guests with the band have included Boo Reiners, Susan McKeown, and drummers Richie Barshay and Aaron Alexander.The group formed in New York's E