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Musician: Danny Shine
Location: London
Instruments: Keyboards and vocals
Music: Jewish/ Klezmer
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HOW I CAME TO THIS MUSICÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýWHERE I PLAYÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýA FAVOURITE SONG |
  
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 ÌýÌýListen (3'14) to 'Laner Velibesamim' (My Soul Yearns For You Like Fire and Spice)
ÌýÌýListen (7'47) to an audio feature recorded with Danny Shine's band Neshama at the Heathrow Park Hotel. Presented by Max Reinhardt. (Broadcast on Radio 3: 20/4/02)Danny Shine -keyboards and vocals, Robin Bibi - guitar, David Bitelli - sax, Motti Cohen - drums, John Deemer - Bass and Dominic Glover - Trumpet
 ÌýÌýWatch (3'36) a video of a wedding featuring Danny Shine's band (with thanks to the Shoolman family)
Where I play:
 I regularly play at Jewish weddings like this one, at the Heathrow Park Hotel. Though the bride's family is from Hendon and the groom's from Stamford Hill, there are no halls large enough in those North London areas to hold 250 people or more, so they come out here.
 There are many different types of Jews in terms of beliefs and customs. Don't they say: 'two Jews - three synagogues'? So the weddings vary a lot. You've got anything from the very secular wedding, where they'll just have five or ten minutes of Jewish music and the rest is popular stuff, right through to very Hassidic ultra orthodox, where they have separate seating all the way down the hall for men an women.
 This wedding is middle of the road veering towards the right, but it depends on how you define the road and its middle! The dance floor has a hedge of weeping fig plants dividing it. Men dance one side and women on the other, but they sit together at the tables.
I choose the repertoire for a particular function based on my years of experience, the type of crowd, what unusual ideas I can add in. Tonight there's quite an Arabic Middle Eastern feel to the songs that I'm doing because the groom's side is of Middle Eastern descent. So I tailor each gig for its particular crowd. I look at the crowd and I look down my list and think what's going to work well. Then I go for it. I don't plan it carefully before hand.
 I suppose someone made these wedding dances up some time. I don't think they're from a particularly traditional source. Much of it is borrowed from line dancing which is imported . You can see some 'stetl' and some 'Israeli' in there, but there are lots of different influences. People learn them from teachers as well as picking them up a little bit when they go to functions. For certain tunes, the dancers tend to just go round and round. With others, they'll have a set type of dance and it just depends on how clued-in the crowd are to the dance steps.
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