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SteveG

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3. Older than Jazz

Reply to Sarah Ibarruri (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 27, 2014, 07:05 PM

Apr 2014

origins date back several hundred years. It's the music of the Eastern European Jews, played at weddings and other social gatherings. It may have it's roots in Moldovan and Romanian folk tunes of the 16th century.

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