New World Cafe - music made at the crossroads, where many world musics meet - evocative, cinematic, rhythmic and inspiring.

the pickPocket ensemble

The pickPocket ensemble makes music at the crossroads: Inspired by many world folk and instrumental traditions, from Eastern European and Balkan, to Klezmer, to French Musette and Swing, to Rock and even Contemporary Classical. The pickPocket ensemble blend together these inspirations and more to create a beautiful music that is both hauntingly familiar and surprisingly fresh and new. The music of the pickPocket ensemble has been called "soul-wrenching" for its evocative and passionate expressiveness. For its ability to communicate across cultures, the pickPocket ensemble has been termed "una banda del pueblo para el pueblo."