Kaila Flexer is a violinist, composer and music educator. In addition to performing and recording with Teslim, Flexer also performs with Shira Kammen and three other fiddlers in the Oakland Folkharmonic. Flexer founded and produced Klezmer Mania!, a much-loved annual Bay Area event for over 10 years (1989-2002) and currently produces Pomegranates and Figs: A Feast of Jewish Music. She has been at the helm of bands such as Third Ear, Next Village and Kaila Flexer's Fieldharmonik, ensembles that featured her original material. She has performed both nationally internationally with her own ensembles as well as with groups including The Hollis Taylor-Kaila Flexer Duo, Club Foot Orchestra and KITKA Women's Vocal Ensemble. In addition Teslim's release, Kaila has recorded two CD's of original music for Compass Records (Nashville). Flexer has a thriving studio of students of all ages. She encourages folk musicians to read music, classical musicians to improvise and to play by ear and everyone to enjoy music and to find and appreciate their own voice. You can find out more about Kaila on her website www.kailaflexer.com.

Kaila Flexer and Friends, Original Music Inspired by Far-Flung Fiddle Traditions

Tagged as: World, Folk, Instrumental, Folk, Violin.

1. Ken Bonfield: Calling Bonfield a guitarist is like calling Michelangelo a painter
2. Sambodhi Prem: reflections of the moon in music
3. Andrew Jilin: merging classical European and traditional Japanese to create captivating cinematic flute music
4. Juan Sanchez: Emotional, elegant instrumental piano compositions spanning Ambient to Neo-classicism
5. Panacea: Eastern and Western European folk music.
6. Daniel Knowler: organic, atmospheric acoustic-guitar textures
7. Chris Field: Music in the Twenty-First Century, a hybrid blend of classical and ambient music
8. Mundi: Early music meets global folk at the Penguin Café
9. Aitua: dreamy and beautiful original compositions on classical guitar
10. Luke Gartner-Brereton: music for minds
11. Cari Live: thoughtful expressions through intelligent new age
12. Bella Gaia: an iridescent landscape of gossamer melodies and labyrinthine rhythms, with a sense of celestial wonder
13. Anthony Salvo: solo and layered violin music on the theme of relational and spiritual intimacy
14. Ehren Starks: piano and cello/jazzy new age
15. Rildrim: electronic music becomes poetry
16. Voices of Music: Lilting Renaissance & Baroque vocal interpretations
17. Daniel Estrem: colorful classical guitar
18. Jami Sieber: enchanting cello compositions
19. Shira Kammen: early folk and celtic music.
20. Fernwood: Music played by hand on instruments made of wood