The Horables play an eclectic mix of Klezmer, Django style jazz, and Gypsy dance tunes . You will also hear songs in Yiddish and English. The Horables bring authentic joyful Jewish music to any event or setting from folk festivals (such as Mill Race, Northern Lights, Ashkenaz , Winterfolk, Jewish Music Week and Roncesvalles Polish festival) to nightclubs, gallery openings and family and community events. We are busking regulars at markets like The Leslieville Farmers Market, Sorauren Market and Evergreen Brickworks, and you can often find us at the Free Times Cafe Klezmer brunch. We rose from the ashes of a band known for it's activism as well as it's music, the all woman Klezmer band Pomegranate.
About the musicians:
Rachel Melas has spent over 4 decades playing electric and upright bass in various bands, and decided that she liked Klezmer music so much that she would learn a whole new instrument to play it. She plays bass with Swamperella, singer songwriter Annabelle Chvostek, swing band The Sonny Balcones, Country Rock Band The Wanted and other purveyors of jazz and traditional music. She also plays rhythm guitar with the local legends Club Django
Conny Nowe is a veteran of many musical scenes, drumming in punk and pop bands in the 80's, world music bands in the 90's and turning her attention to acoustic music as the rhythm guitarist in Swamperella for the last 26 years. She drums with The Sonny Balcones and Bernie Oldham's Hogtown Country Band. She has been playing Klezmer and Old Time music on the mandolin for the last 20 years. When Conny is not playing music she is a professional sound technician.
Rachel Sheininhas played the violin since childhood, studying classical music and then jazz and folk styles. She leads the Bulgars and Freylachs fearlessly, solos effortlessly on the jazz tunes and sings in Yiddish. She is the most virtuosic Horable! A school teacher by trade she also teaches and practices Tai Chi.
About our Name - Whats in a Horable ? A Hora is a musical form in Jewish music, it could be a slow walking tune in 3/4 time or a fast dancing tune. Either way, the HORAbles do it all ..... both.