She'Koyokh Klezmer Ensemble She'Koyokh Klezmer Ensemble is a group of young London-based professional musicians from culturally diverse backgrounds dedicated to performing Eastern European folk music, employing ornaments, phrasing and rhythms specific to a variety of national folk styles. They bring a fresh, passionate energy to Balkan, Greek and Turkish folk music as well as to an extensive repertoire of Ashkenazi Jewish melodies once played in the Shtetls of countries such as Poland, Romania and the Ukraine. The band consists of a unique and versatile combination of instrumentalists, from self-taught Lithuanian-Jewish accordionist Jim Marcovitch to Royal Academy of Music graduate, clarinettist Susi Evans, and Meg Hamilton on Violin, Irish-Jewish Ben Samuels from California - mandolin, Robin Harris - trombone, Oliver Baldwin - double Bass, Matthew Bacon - guitar, Frazer Watson - darabucka and tapan. For special occasions: Dimitris Chaidemenakis from Greece- poyk. Since a Southbank debut at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall in 2004, when the Jewish Music Institute invited She'Koyokh to premiere a concerto by Jewish composer Rohan Kriwaczek, the band has toured the UK, playing at Glastonbury Festival, Chichester, Bath and Swaledale Music Festivals, the Royal Academy of Music in London, and London's Battersea Arts Centre and National Theatre. She'Koyokh has played live on Radio 4, appeared on BBC4 as the wedding band in the recent series, Fat Friends. She'Koyokh has given concerts and workshops in special needs schools, hospitals, village halls and prisons all over the South of England, Norfolk, Yorkshire and Northern Ireland in association with Yehudi Menuhin's Live Music Now! Scheme. The band has performed in California, Spain, France, Denmark, the annual Jewish Cultural Festival in Krakow and on Czech national radio and television. She'Koyokh can also be heard playing at Jewish and non-Jewish weddings, Bar Mitsvahs, all kinds of parties, and out busking in London's East End at weekends.