Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys

Klezmer and Bluegrass sound as if they were meant to be combined. At least that's the conclusion after listening to this terrific album. Leverett & the Klezmer Mountain Boys have given us a wonderful gift. - Dirty Linen

Cut after cut, this CD is gorgeous, inspired playing. - Sing Out

Leverett's clarinet is a joy to hear as it blends and trades licks and lines with the stringed instruments. - Montreal Gazette

Elegant, soulful playing. - Global Rhythm

Margot Leverett & the Klezmer Mountain Boys (Traditional Crossroads) never loses hold of the village roots of this European Jewish music. The brilliant clarinetist Leverett, a former Klezmatic, makes a clever, intricate chamber-music invention here. Bluegrass infiltrates slyly and subtly on several tunes of this deep, beautiful album, but klezmer dominates.

American Jews have been making great bluegrass music for more than 40 years, and fiddler Kenny Kosek and mandolinist Barry Mitterhoff are among the genre's leading lights. with Leverett, they show that an old-word shtetl and a Kentucky one-horse town do not exist in different worlds. - Boston Herald

The sense of something new and wonderful emerging from mixed traditions bursts out of "Klezmerbluegrass", the new work by Paul Taylor that opened his company's magnificent program Thursday night at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. It is clear before the curtain goes up, in Margot Leverett's lyrical arrangement of klezmer and bluegrass music. The mosaic is there all at once: the swooping, supple notes of the clarinet, the wailing violin, the loping guitar that quickens the pace, joined by bright, lift-you-out-of-your-seat fiddling. - Washington Post