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History
Few hard facts are known about the influential, fakeloric Di Shikere Kapelye (pronounced deh SHICK-er-uh kuh-PEL-yuh) or Inebriated Orchestra. What little we do know comes from a variety of sources: anecdotes and oral histories with older living klezmorim (whose grandparents may have heard or played in Di Shikere Kapelye), court records of cases brought against them by dissatisfied clients and straight-laced municipal governments, obscure references, and apocryphal legends.
Their origins may lie around Odessa, or in the Trans-Carpathians, or near Minsk. Records of their appearance can be found in all those places. Always invited to perform, but never welcomed to stay in one place (perhaps due to their proclivity towards impromptu jam sessions in town squares after all the pubs had shut for the night), they traveled throughout the Pale of Settlement, the region of Russia where Jews were forced to remain.
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