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Klezmer has spread far and wide but Welsh-based duo Fiddlebox claim a unique fusion on their new album Eastern Honeymoon - they have blended it with Welsh folk tunes.

Violinist Helen Adam, who learned klezmer from her maternal Jewish grandmother from Lithuania, believes that Jewish immigrants could have influenced the Welsh folklore movement around the turn of the 20th century.

Klezmer "stirs you on more than one level," she said. "It's uplifting, emotional and it's dance music."

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