The Little Chef Klezmer Band was founded in 2022 as Phoenix’s premiere traditional Yiddish music ensemble. Performance highlights include the Israel at 75 Community Celebration at the Mandell JCC, Temple Solel’s annual Solelebration event, a private birthday party with guest vocalist Hazzan Bernard Savitz, the Phoenix Holocaust Association’s annual Chanukah party, and the upcoming East Valley JCC Klezmer Festival. The band’s instrumentation of clarinet, saxophone, accordion, percussion, and tuba/sousaphone is inspired by Eastern European brass bands, while it’s energetic and virtuosic performance style pays tribute to early American klezmer bands whose recordings were popular among American Jewish immigrants in the first half of the twentieth century.